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Stardock's space strategy title Sins Of A Solar Empire: Rebellion is expanding with the new Forbidden Worlds DLC. The add-on will release on June 5 for $4.99 with lots of new content to explore. Find out what you can expect from the Stardock's descriptions below and browse through the screen... More

Soren Johnson will oversee the design of all games coming from the studio, which previously produced Galactic Civilizations, Elemental, and Fallen Enchantress. Few games in the strategy sphere are as universally adored as Civilization IV. Even now, many players still cling to that earlier entry even... More

Elemental: Fallen Enchantress has a release date, and it's soon. Keep an eye out for Fallen Enchantress on October 23 on PC. For more on the game and its relationship to War of Magic, check out Adam Biessener's story about the game's change in direction . More

Stardock filed a lawsuit against former marketing manager Alexandra Miseta alleging she deleted, destroyed, and/or stole materials for the game Elemental:War of Magic after she quit her job without notice. Miseta allegedly quit her job just weeks before the game's release in August 2010 and that... More

Because of the success of Stardock's latest title, its next game will be download only. The indie developer received mixed feedback when it announced that the free standing expansion to the space-based RTS would be only available through download. However, after releasing Sins of a Solar Empire:... More

Stardock said today it will begin selling its own titles through Steam, Valve's digital distribution service, starting today with Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity. This news comes after the company unloaded its digital retail platform Impulse to GameStop earlier this year. “With the sale of... More

Valve’s Half-Life is one of the most popular first person shooter series in the business, and yet it’s been almost seven years since we’ve seen an actual numbered entry in the franchise and over three years since Half-Life 2: Episode Two hit store shelves. Could something be holding... More

Retail giant GameStop is expanding its Internet business with the purchases of a digital distribution service and a game streaming company. Impulse, Inc. is a subsidiary of Elemental developer/publisher and business software company Stardock. Its Impulse service functions much like Steam; it incorporates... More

Ironclad Games and Stardock unveiled a big expansion to the lauded real-time strategy title today. Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion adds a wealth of ships, factions, and features to the already rich mix. If you're not familiar with Sins of a Solar Empire, you should be. The 2008 RTS combined 4X... More

Stardock admitted Elemental: War of Magic's many failures in its 2010 Customer Report, released today, and gave a peek at the next Elemental game – which will be free to anyone who bought War of Magic in 2010. Fallen Enchantress shares some art assets and the fiction backstory with War of Magic... More

Stardock's 2010 Customer Report dropped a tease about upcoming announcements for Sins of a Solar Empire. The surprise hit space real-time strategy title won many fans at and since its 2008 release, and apparently Stardock and developer Ironclad Games have more tricks up their sleeves. The report... More

Stardock CEO Brad Wardell said in an interview that while the company's latest title is currently profitable, he anticipates to have lost money overall on the project by halfway through this year. Why? Because Stardock is hiring more developers to help fix the game and giving away the first expansion... More

Personally, I was rather surprised when Civilization V lead designer Jon Shafer left developer Firaxis just a few months after the popular turn-based strategy title launched. Now it turns out he has joined semi-struggling competitor Stardock. Joystiq reports that Shafer has joined fantasy author Dave... More

Stardock's fantasy 4X crashed and burned when it launched in August despite seemingly being full of promise. The first major update is now available for download. How far along the road to respectability has Elemental come? The answer, sadly, is "not as far as I had hoped." I don't... More

Stardock announced today that it will be giving away the first two expansions for its turn-based fantasy strategy game to players who purchase it before October 31. This includes everyone who currently owns the game. I wish I had better things to say about Elemental, but I don't know that I'd... More

In a particularly candid admission earlier this week – Stardock CEO and Elemental: War of Magic lead designer Brad Wardell admitted to his role in the “catastrophic” launch of the game. Pointing to his own failures, Wardell painted a gloomy forecast, stating that “there will be... More

One of the biggest players in book publishing is making its way into gaming, sort of. Random House is creating a new division that will manage and provide editorial support for "original transmedia intellectual property...that will be developed and marketed in partnerships with other media companies... More

According to Stardock's 2009 Customer Report , the developer/publisher estimates that Valve's Steam service accounts for roughly 70% of PC digital games purchases. Stardock pegs its own Impulse service in second place at 10%, with the remaining 20% belonging to various independent players like... More