Archive for September, 2012

Most Wanted Entertainment Hits Kickstarter for Nexus 2 By Adam Solo on September 28th, 2012 at 3:22 pm After a failed crowdfunding attempt at the now defunct Games-Plant.com, Most Wanted Entertainment is back again, now on Kickstarter, for Nexus 2: The Gods Awaken. Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 24 comments

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission Out Now for PC and XBox360 By Adam Solo on September 28th, 2012 at 1:15 pm Bohemia Interactive released Carrier Command: Gaea Mission for the PC and XBox 360, today. Category: News & Announcements 11 comments

Orator Games Released Blue Libra 2 for PC, Mac and iOS By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2012 at 12:55 pm Orator Games, the developers of Blue Libra, a casual real-time space strategy game, have released a sequel that is now available digitally for Windows PC, Mac and iOS devices. Category: News & Announcements 1 comment

Tryst Demo Now Available on Steam By Adam Solo on September 27th, 2012 at 7:24 am A Tryst playable demo is now available on Steam. Tryst is a traditional "develop your base, manage resources and conquer your enemies" sci-fi RTS game. Category: News & Announcements 5 comments

Total War: Rome 2 First Gameplay Trailer By Adam Solo on September 26th, 2012 at 12:39 pm The Creative Assembly and Sega have released the first gameplay footage of their new Rome Total War game, featuring the Siege of Carthage. Category: News & Announcements, Videos 14 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown PC Demo Now Available on Steam By Adam Solo on September 25th, 2012 at 6:12 am An XCOM: Enemy Unknown playable PC demo is now up on Steam, two weeks before the game's official release. Category: News & Announcements 62 comments

FTL: Faster Than Light Review By Kyle Rees on September 21st, 2012 at 10:05 am Kyle reviews FTL and has this to say about it: "FTL is a simple yet engaging indie effort that makes losing exciting and suspenseful. It has high replayability where every play through is random.". Category: Game Reviews 25 comments

Logic Factory Teases Ascendancy 2 By Adam Solo on September 20th, 2012 at 10:51 am It was no secret that Logic Factory was working on a sequel to their highly popular space 4X game Ascendancy. But now LF teased the fans with a sample of Ascendancy II's music in their website. Category: News & Announcements 24 comments

2 “Pay-What-You-Want” Indie Bundles With Sci-Fi In Them By Adam Solo on September 19th, 2012 at 1:29 pm This seems to be indie bundle season. Here's two new "Pay-What-You-Want" indie bundles with some sci-fi games on them. Category: News & Announcements 7 comments

Planetary Annihilation Gets Funded With $1.3M To Spare! By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2012 at 12:52 pm Total Annihilation inspired Planetary Annihilation succeeded on Kickstarter with more than 1.3 million dollars above the pledge goal! Category: Kickstart, News & Announcements 25 comments

Master of Orion Inspired Beyond Beyaan Goes Open Source By Adam Solo on September 17th, 2012 at 9:16 am Brent Patterson announced that his space 4X game Beyond Beyaan is now open source. Brent put the C# code on Google Code. The chosen license was GPL3. Category: News & Announcements 6 comments

FTL: Spaceship Simulation with Strategic Combat Released By Adam Solo on September 14th, 2012 at 2:37 pm FTL is a spaceship simulation game that features elements of exploration, discovery, spaceship management and real-time strategic combat, and it released today. Category: News & Announcements 29 comments

Tryst: Action-Strategy StarCraft-Like Indie RTS Released By Adam Solo on September 14th, 2012 at 1:19 pm Tryst, from BlueGiant Interactive was released today. It is a fast-paced real-time strategy game similar to games like StarCraft. Category: News & Announcements 4 comments

StarDrive Heading to Steam for Pre-Purchase in 2 Months By Adam Solo on September 13th, 2012 at 1:29 pm Daniel DiCicco from Zero Sum Games has announced that StarDrive is expected to be on Steam for beta pre-purchasing in a six to eight weeks period. Category: News & Announcements 23 comments

Star Legacy Went Vaporware By Adam Solo on September 12th, 2012 at 1:29 pm Couple of years ago Shrapnel Games announced they were developing a new space 4X game called Star Legacy. Now, the developers report that the project is "pretty much put into indefinite hold...". Category: News & Announcements 16 comments

Wing Commander Creator Chris Roberts Making New Game By Adam Solo on September 11th, 2012 at 12:20 pm The creator of space games like Wing Commander, Privateer or Freelancer is back to game development after a long period of absence. He's new space game to be revealed in Oct 10, 2012. Category: News & Announcements 10 comments

Hey, Nice Sci-Fi Titles on the IndieFort Championship Bundle By Adam Solo on September 10th, 2012 at 4:01 pm GamersGate has selected 24 indie games to be part of their new IndieFort Bundle starting today. Category: News & Announcements 3 comments