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IGN Review: Editor's Choice!

IGN's review of Sins of a Solar Empire is up! The verdict: Editor's Choice. The 3 page review goes into great depth about the game's strengths and the areas they could see improvement. The conclusion of the review is: We used to have to get our tactical and strategic appetites filled by different games. Then some smart developers started putting the two experiences together in alternating phases. Finally someone's managed to get them both together as part of the same experie... [read more]

2/18/2008 By Frogboy in Sins News

Forums Back Up

Huzzah! We've completed our work for the night and the forums are back up and running. You'll notice a number of visual changes, and you'll hopefully notice improved speed and general performance. Please post any issues you run into here. We've done a lot of testing this past week and tonight, but if something slipped through we want to know so it can be fixed quickly. Thank you all for your patience. [read more]

2/18/2008 By Zoomba in Sins News

Stardock Database Maintenance Sunday, February 17th

When: Sunday February 17th, 8pm EST - Monday February 18th 9am EST This weekend we will be conducting extensive maintenance on the database systems that power Stardock's forums, articles systems and blogs across all websites. During this period we will be locking the database preventing anyone from posting to the forums (new threads, replies, private messages etc). For full details on the upgrade, go here . [read more]

2/14/2008 By Zoomba in Sins News

Gamespot: Editor's Choice Award!

[Full Review] Gamespot has weighed in on Sins of a Solar Empire. Reviewed by Jason Ocampo, one of the strategy genre's top reviewers as well as an expert in other genres, his review thoroughly walked through both the strengths of the game as well as elements of the game that gamers should be aware of (i.e. this ain't no 25 minute action RTS). You can see his other reviews here . [read more]

2/14/2008 By Frogboy in Sins News

G4 X-Play Video Review

X-Play has reviewed Sins of a Solar Empire with a resounding "4 pirates out of 5!" We lost a star (or pirate) due to not including a campaign in with the game. " Sins is one of the biggest surprises thus far in 2008, a game no self-respecting galactic grognard will want to be without." Check out the whole thing. View: X-Play Video Review [read more]

2/13/2008 By Frogboy in Sins News

1up / Games Radar Reviews

The 1Up and Games Radar reviews have hit the streets! "Sins is the fulfillment of Supreme Commander's promise -- zoom in to see the tracers of a fighter squadron launched from a carrier ship, and zoom out to take in 60 planets and five star systems at a time as utilitarian icons" - 1Up. "With most RTS games shifting towards fast action at the expense of real strategy, it would be an unforgivable sin for a strategy fan to pass by this game on the shelf and not pick it up." - G... [read more]

2/13/2008 By Frogboy in Sins News

Initial Review Round-Up

The first reviews have started to come out! Here are some of the initial reviews of Sins of a Solar Empire! Sarcastic Steve: 9/10 Gaming Steve: 9/10 Resonance Gaming: 9/10 Out of Eight: 8/8 Game Squad: 9/10 The major game website reviews are starting to hit as well. Stay tuned! [read more]

2/13/2008 By Frogboy in Sins News

Sins Counters Update

Sins Counters Update I originally made a large post regarding counters, ship weapon damage, armor type etc on February 2 nd in this thread https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=402&aid=174192 . I just wanted to let everyone know that as of v1.02 you can view basic, rule of thumb, counter information by hovering over the button to build a given ship. Ed has also drawn up a diagram, show... [read more]

2/13/2008 By Blair Fraser in Sins Developer Journals

News: Sins #3 Best seller in US!

[Sung to the rhythm of the Jeffersons] Moving-on up to the East Side to a deluxe apartment in the sky Sin is at #3 in the North American market. PC: Call of Duty 4 makes it a hat-trick of No1s for the Infinity Ward developed FPS for the second successive week. EA titles, largely Sims based, ensure the publisher takes half of the top ten places, while Stardock’s Sins of a Solar Empire rises seven places to No3. [read more]