@Novaburst: "the 4x MoMish spiritual successor"
really? Stardock are working on one? Oh my oh my oh my oh my.

cmon space rts mmo wooooooooooooooo!

....brad will announce a brand new super-game called "Galactic Politician's Sins in a Solar Society with Impulses resulting in Mod Tools." It will be the game of the century.

but seriously, i can't freaking wait. could be anything. i mean, seriously, i bet everyone in Stardock is sitting back with a pack of cold beers watching as all of us try our hardest to guess what it is they are going to say, knowing full-well that NOBODY REALLY KNOWS ANYTHING!!!

Stardock, ya'll bunch o' meanies!!!

I think it's going to be an update to stop the crash that restarts your computer.

Well, take a look here http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/301358/The_Hot_Project_List_at_Stardock at the end of the "my games" section.

i have 2 theories 1 is that stardock is opening up to a new area or buying out a company or 2 which i hope does not happen is that they are closing permantly. P.S i really really really really hope number 2 does not happen.

woot look at this

NPD has released the top 10 best selling PC games for February. Here are the results:
February 2008

1. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
2.Sins Of A Solar Empire (Stardock)
3.World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest (Blizzard)
4.The Sims 2 Free Time Expansion Pack (EA)
5.World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack (Blizzard)
6.World Of Warcraft (Blizzard)
7.The Orange Box (EA)
8.The Sims 2 Deluxe (EA)
9.The Sims: Castaway Stories (EA)
10.Crysis (EA)

Stardock's Sins of a Solar Empire was #2 overall for the month of February despite retail availability occurring near the middle of the month.

With the upcoming merger of Activision and Blizzard, Sins of a Solar Empire is the only non-EA, non-Activision/Blizzard game in the top 10 at retail.  

I doubt that Stardock is arrogant enough to claim that "The PC game industry is about to change" because of a new game they're going to announce. My money's on Impulse or some kind of new anti-DRM initiative they'll be spearheading.

I'm going to be a non-conformist and say that they're announcing a Euro publisher/Euro retail release date.

The crystals in the game are found out to be crystal meth and the Vassari are caught red handed and are now nothing more then a bunch of dope peddlers.  

In light of which the game must now be renamed to: "Sins of a Solar Drug Lord"

  

So?

Here is my guess WWW Link . Though i really hope it is more along the lines that Jdhas outlines

Looks like somebody stole Frogboy's thunder... poor frogboy!

Oh what could you mean Ron ?

Scoooooooooooopu!



Pretty bold move, dare I say. And nothing I've really expected.

Your right... its Froboy's fault for waiting so long to release the announcement!

hah steampowered vs http://www.impulsedriven.com

I find this interesting because ti sounds like they were originally going to self publish the game.

-HM

Fascinating, since this says they originally going to self-publish.

-HM

Is this a late April Fool's joke?

Sorry for the double-post. Got the forum went "boom" message, so thought it didn't post.

-HM

That probably means they're going to self-publish the box I don't think it showing up on Impulse for online distribution means Stardock is actually publishing the game.

Glad to see I am not the not the only one. These boards were glacial yesterday! sheez.  Are the forums just whonky because people are a bit Sins crazy atm (like me, a new member) or are they always like this?



Good lord. If EA came out with "The Sims: You Are a Loser for Playing so Much Sims" expansion. People would buy it.

As to the surprise... if the Impluse thing is a joke then I am betting its a new game unless the Impluse thing is a game...  

I don't know, there's nothing about that article that's making me think that someone else is publishing the retail box. Plus it has the line "When quizzed about what Stardock's "new type of developer/publisher model" means for fans of Gas Powered Games' older titles..."

Which sure makes it sound like Stardock is the exclusive publisher for Demigod.

We need more information.

-HM

This is good. I want to say that this is the first time that Stardock's distributing a game developed by a larger developer (or at least one that's not strictly indie or niche), but it's been a while since I've browsed through TotalGaming's library. Which can only mean that there are better things to come. On top of that, this may set a precedent for the industry since most of these games are likely to ship without copy-protection.

And Steam-like features will make setting up and finding multiplayer games that much easier. Here's hoping that they've learned from Steam's mistakes and not take several years to create a non-buggy digital distribution program with extra features. Don't get me wrong, I love Steam for what it is and what's available on it, but this is really good news.