Now you can design your own race and choose which technology tree for them to use. Stardock Entertainment has announced that the new beta of Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has arrived. Beta 5 features Ascension Victory Condition - maps with this condition enabled get 5 ascension crystals. Build a starbase on them and collect 1 ascenion point per turn for each one. Collect 1000 and win. In addition, players can now opt to have the computer AI design combat ships for them and can specific various parameters to have ships auto launch when they're built.
Galactic Civilizations IV is more focused than it's predecessors, and is shaping up to be a more fun game for it.
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.
Stardock, developer of the popular 4X PC space strategy series Galactic Civilizations, completely restructured itself as the result of a flop in land-based fantasy strategy game in 2010. Now the company will attempt to redeem itself in the genre. The story profiles the company and includes interviews on what's changed and how it's affected the company.
Glad that the disaster that was the original Elemental didn't kill these guys.
WTF Stardock is out of Michigan....Hmm never knew that.
Good read though, and I look forward to their new game.
Started Playing Gal Civ 2 again the other day, eventually I'll get Gal Civ 3 once it's fully finished.
Solid game developer really.
* Another Fantasy-Strategy 4x games is always a nice welcome though.
Games like this you can play for YEARS and never get bored.
Seems like they got lucky with a big cash injection from the impulse sale and are now happily spending it on golden toilets and yoga classes for the office and staff, what could possibly go wrong. Seriously though I hope galciv 3 will be great because it really needs to be after elemental.
