Archive for the ‘News & Announcements’ Category

Elemental: War of Magic Released

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
elemental_intro

Sometimes I’ll be posting about non-Sci-Fi strategy games if I found them of interest to the strategy gaming community of SpaceSector.com. Elemental: War of Magic is one of such titles.

Elemental is developed and published by Stardock, it was released yesterday 24th of August 2010. It is a fantasy strategy game set on a world of magic and Continue reading

Star Ruler – A new 4x/RTS Hybrid by Blind Mind Studios

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
star_ruler_image1

Star Ruler is a real-time 4x space strategy game being developed by the Blind Mind Studies where you control an interstellar empire in a hostile galaxy against a number of opponents. From Blind Mind Studios Staff: “It’s slightly more RTS than 4X; it is most certainly way more 4X than SoaSE (Sins of a Solar Empire).Continue reading | 1 Comment

Sword of the Stars 2 Update

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
sots2_announced

Currently under development Sword of the Stars 2 will be the sequel 4x Sci-Fi game to the Kerberos Productions acclaimed title Sword of the Stars. The game was announced back on January 2010 and by then I made an article on SpaceSector.com to cover that. Check it out: “Sword of the Stars 2 Announced”.

Targeted for release on Q1 2011 SotS2 promises to take the series to a new level at the same time keeping some essential features and gameplay mechanics of the original title. Continue reading

Star Legacy – New 4X Sci-Fi Game Announced by Shrapnel Games

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Shrapnel Games announces the next great epic science-fiction strategy game, Star Legacy! This game is being developed by the Star Legacy Development Group, and scheduled for release on late 2011.

Star Legacy is promised to be a feature-rich 4x game being designed from scratch. The game is targeted to answer the simple question: “what would the ultimate sci-fi 4X game include?”

Turn-Based with Multiplayer

Star Legacy will be an open-ended turn-based game. As in all good 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) titles it promises to offer Continue reading | 3 Comments

Distant Worlds Patches v1.0.2 and v1.0.3 Released

Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Distant Worlds Planet Screen

Since its release in 25th of March Matrix Games has already released 2 patches for Distant Worlds. In 28th of March Matrix Games released v1.0.2, in April 8th released v1.0.3 that among other things fixes the following major issues.

Patch v1.0.3 major changes

  • Extensive memory usage optimization. Large games now consume much less memory which should resolve the crashes related to Out of Memory and crashes during save/load.
  • Added an AutoSave feature with a variable save interval between 10 and 60 minutes.
  • Fleets now respond properly to manual control and will not automatically disband

Distant Worlds: 4x RTS Space Strategy Game Released

Friday, March 26th, 2010
distant_worlds_cover

Distant Worlds, a 4x RTS space strategy game developed by CodeForce and published by Matrix Games has been released yesterday: 25th of March 2010.

Distant Worlds main features are:

  • 4x Real-Time Strategy
  • Less Micromanagement on an Epic Scale
  • Special emphasis in Exploration and Expansion
  • Research, Diplomacy and Espionage
  • Spaceship and Starbase Design

Supremacy will go to Las Vegas for Official Star Trek Convention

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
startreksupremacy

Mike Strobel, the creator of Star Trek: Supremacy, will be attending the Las Vegas Star Trek convention in August 5 – 8th 2010. He will talk about Birth of the Federation and the development of Star Trek: Supremacy.

In preparation for this Star Trek event, Mike will release a game update in August 2010 that will improve the multiplayer experience and game performance. The update will also include improvements to Diplomacy and the Intelligence features. Continue reading | 5 Comments

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty Preview

Sunday, March 14th, 2010
starcraft2_wings_of_liberty

StarCraft 2 is a real-time strategy game developed by Blizzard, sequel of the successful title made by the same developer: StarCraft. The game features three distinct races: the Zerg, the Terrans and the Protoss. Each has its own distinct units, some of them returning from the original title, others completely new.

Wings of Liberty takes place several years after StarCraft: Brood War events. Some heroes will return like Jim Raynor from the original StarCraft. The game will feature a single player campaign that will allow the player to interact with those characters via several missions. Continue reading | 7 Comments

Sid Meier’s Civilization V Preview

Friday, March 12th, 2010
civ5_title

The Civilization series is probably one of the best that PC Gaming has ever known. Ask any strategy gamer about it and the odds are that he has played at least one of the Civilization titles during his gaming life time, or at least a Sid Meier’s title (Railroad Tycoon, Alpha Centauri, Colonization, Pirates and many more).

And really it is no big surprise because Civilization is really what strategy gaming is all about. Since the game starts till it finishes it is all about making decisions, some minor, others of tremendous importance, these last will dictate if your civilization will thrive or be left dead forever forgotten in the ages. Continue reading

Sword of the Stars 2 Announced

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
sots2

Last week Kerberos Productions and Paradox Interactive announced Sword of the Stars 2. This will be the sequel to the Kerbero’s franchise 4x game title Sword of the Stars (SotS).

Without revealing much about the sequel they said that the game will bring back the original six races and introduce a new race: the Suul’ka which is an ancient race in the SotS universe that will be central to the title main story plot.

The developer and the publisher were already teamed up on the first SotS game, but not since the beginning where the former publisher was Lightouse Interactice. Continue reading

Distant Worlds – A new Real-time, 4X Space Strategy Game

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
DW_box

Distant Worlds is a new real-time 4x space strategy game being developed by CodeForce and to be published by Matrix Games. The game beta phase is now almost finished and although the official game release date is not yet announced  the game is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2010.

Distant Worlds is a real-time strategy game. In contrast with turn-based games like Master of Orion 2, Galactic Civilizations or Armada 2526, in DW the player can be surprised at any time by new events or by enemy attacks which requires the player to make decisions on the spot in a continuous gaming experience. Continue reading