StarDock Annual Report Hints at More Solar Empire, Laments Elemental

StarDock's annual Customer Report was released today and, as usual, CEO Brad Wardell provided a frank overview of the company's successes and shortcomings, along with a few sprinkled hints of plans for the future.

Sins of a Solar Empire and Elemental: War of Magic

Unsurprisingly, Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity was counted as a standout success, and the company teased "important announcements" for the franchise this year. The report later states that it anticipates "3 big announcements" this y...

Stardock Annual Report Hints at More Solar Empire, Laments Elemental

Stardock's annual Customer Report was released today and, as usual, CEO Brad Wardell provided a frank overview of the company's successes and shortcomings, along with a few sprinkled hints of plans for the future.

Sins of a Solar Empire and Elemental: War of Magic

Unsurprisingly, Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity was counted as a standout success, and the company teased "important announcements" for the franchise this year. The report later states that it anticipates "3 big announcements" this y...

Homefront Preview: The First Three Chapters

Warning: This preview contains spoilers for the first three chapters of Homefront.

Watching the lifeless bodies of American civilians being unceremoniously pushed into ditches that serve as makeshift graves it hits me: Homefront's developers want to make me mad.

The first time I saw Homefront's single-player mode, I was told that the developers involved wanted players to feel like using a weapon as soon as they got their hands on one. Morbid as that might sound, I presume they mean that they want to give players a reason to fight rather than an order or expectation to do so. It didn't click for me the first time I played the game. Now, having played further into the game, I get it.

(2011-02-22 17:00:00)

Dungeon Siege 3 Hands-On Preview

The Dungeon Siege series, the hack-and-slash dungeon-crawler originally developed by Chris Taylor and the folks at Gas Powered Games, saw two full retail releases in 2002 and 2005, with parts one and two receiving their own expansion packs. In 2006, the series also made a brief foray onto the PSP. Now, in 2011, developer Obsidian Entertainment has taken up the mantle and are poised to reboot the series this May. Dungeon Siege 3 will be the first game in the series playable on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, in addition to the traditional PC offering.

I traveled to Obsidian's offices last week and was able to see the game running on all three platforms, and also spend some time playing through the game's opening segments on both PC and PlayStation 3. Chief among my concerns was how Obsidian would translate the series' Diablo-like pointy-clicky combat i...

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