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Stardock announced its next major PC game, Elemental: War of Magic today. Stardock, the company that has released such award-winning PC games such as Galactic Civilizations, Ironclad’s Sins of a Solar Empire and is nearing the release date of Gas Powered Games’ Demigod has set the retail launch date of Elemental: War of Magic (www.elementalgame.com) [...]

The RPG Vault at IGN.com interviewed Mike Marr, Lead Designer of Demigod, on various aspects of the game.  Here is a quick excerpt from the interview.

“Jonric: What is Demigod? What kind of game are you making, how did the idea for it come about, to whom will it appeal, and when will it ship?Mike Marr: The [...]

Yesterday, Stardock put out The Political Machine 2008 Express which is a free strategy game for the political season.
“Players play on the electoral map of the United States with the goal to gain the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election. Players get 21 weeks (approximately the time candidates have between the primary season [...]

Spore is a game that has been hyped up for what seems like several years now.  However, with it’s release last week most of the press and fan coverage of the game has been limited to one thing……it’s DRM.  One of the top stories this week was an organized “protest” at Amazon.com where over 2000 reviews [...]

Stardock Games has a blog on the IGN site, and CEO/President of Stardock, Brad Wardell gives an in-depth look at the “beginnings” of the upcoming game, Demigod, from Gas Powered Games.  The story starts with how the concept of Demigod started, all the way to the current state of development.  It’s a great look at [...]

Joystiq.com got a hands-on preview of Demigod at PAX 2008 this weekend.  You can read the full preview at Joystiq, but here is a quick excerpt:
“Following an interview with Gas Powered Games at PAX 2008, we got some hands on time with their newest creation, Demigod. The first thing we noticed while watching it running [...]

Stardock and Gas Powered Games have come together and created a gamer’s “Bill of Rights”.  Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell, states:
“These are the key elements that publishers need to adhere to in their games; they’re all pretty common sense, but they’re things that the game industry is increasingly straying from.”

Gamers shall have the right to return [...]

Stardock is excited to announce that “phase two” of its digital download platform, Impulse, has begun and all updates, new games and software applications will soon be live. Phase two of Impulse sees new games from 2k (Civilizations III, Shattered Union, Sid Meier’s Pirates! and Sid Meier’s Railroads!) and Tilted Mill’s Children of the Nile [...]

The second, and last, expansion pack to Galactic Civilizations has been released!
The new expansion pack, Twilight of the Arnor, adds hundreds of new features, gives each civilization a unique technology tree, a unique set of planetary improvements, star base modules, ship parts, and more. 
Moreover, with Twilight of the Arnor, Stardock went back and [...]

I have been playing the multiplayer beta of the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company on the Xbox 360 for a few weeks, and I wanted to give my initial impressions.
Likes:

Wide open maps which are very open as compared to the smaller, close quartered oriented maps in COD4. They allow more freedom for classes like sniper, but [...]