GameSpy writes: "In a surprising announcement today, Chris Taylor's Gas Powered Games (creators of Dungeon Siege) and Brad Wardell's Stardock (publishers of the Galactic Civilizations series and Sins of a Solar Empire) revealed that they would be partnering for both retail and digital distribution of GPG's newest title Demigod. The value for Stardock is obvious as the company prepares to morph "Stardock Central," its fledgling digital distribution system, into "Impulse," a full-service digital game seller. According to Wardell, Stardock plans to have rough content parity with competitors like Steam and Direct2Drive by the end of 2008 and will also include non-gaming content such as anti-virus packages, disk utilities and other PC applications.
The value proposition for Gas Powered Games in this latest move is a little harder to see, but according to the press release issued on the matter, Stardock's most recent game release, Sins of a Solar Empire, was the top-selling PC strategy game at retail despite selling a large number of copies digitally and having no copy protection. Demigod will apparently be following this pattern -- releasing without copy protection, an extensive beta program (which occasioned a new February 2009 release date) and many months of post-release support and free updates. We were able to sit down with Stardock's Brad Wardell to discuss the two companies' initiative."
Stardock, one of the the longest running indie developers in the video game industry, has launched an intergalactic RTS Steam sale to end all RTS Steam sales.
That's a lot of RTS games... time I just don't have! Like I need my backlog to get any bigger!
Ya it's a pretty decent sale but The Taken King, MGSV, Fallout 4 soon... too many games.
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I still haven't found a MOBA I can get into. Did LoL for awhile, but it was such a slow grind in terms of ranking up and getting money. DOTA 2 just scares me. Infinite Crisis was alright, but I lost interest in it pretty quickly.
Why does Dota 2 scare you? Just wondering because imo its a fairly accessible game especially if you get some friends together to play with you. Also if you are just scared of sucking dont be, just have fun and ignore those who flame because if they are flaming then they probably suck too and are just trying to blame you for any of their mistakes. So just download it AND HAVE FUN!
"From mod to sensation" to over-saturation.
i dont like how all these companys are now trying to make mobas, the markets already been taken by lol and dota.
they should come up with something new instead of just copying.
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