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Star Control: Origins Pre-Orders Begin Today
Explore the Galaxy. Investigate New Worlds. Squish Some Hostile Aliens. Pre-Order Star Control: Origins Today for a Limited Time Discount! Star Control Bundle - $29.99 $26.99* (Includes a Star Control: Origins key, access to the Super Melee beta will be in late 2017), Star Control: The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control & Star Control II), Star Control: Kessari Quadrant (Star Control 3) Also available on GOG or Steam ... [read more]
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Stardock CEO talks Star Control: Origins with Ars Technica
Hungry for some Star Control info? Ars Technica gives you a new taste of what we've got in development! The article features a new dev trailer, exclusive screenshots, and an in-depth interview with our CEO Brad Wardell. Check it out: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/stardock-ceo-talks-star-control-origins-player-crafting-and-upcoming-beta/ [read more]
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Star Control: October 2017 update
It's been a year since we posted the last big public update on the new Star Control. Last year, we began the Founders Program! Thank you all that joined. In the next two weeks, we will be ending the Founder's Program as we prepare for a public Beta program. If you want to join the Founder's Program it's not too late yet . A new tier Right now, we have Founders and Lifetime Founders. Both get access to our internal vault of stuff. Lifetime Founders get ev... [read more]
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Video games normally take liberties with the size of the universe. We know the universe is big but we frequently trivialize the immense size of the galaxy. Even scientists seem to trivialize this with questions like "Why haven't we detected aliens?". The answer might be because our radio signals haven't even reached a trivial distance of the milky way galaxy. Our solar system out to Jupiter. Zooming way way out to our local neighborhood. Now this is zo... [read more]
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[a]listdaily Interview with Brad Wardell on Star Control: Origins
[a]listdaily has an interview up with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell on the upcoming Star Control: Origins! "What attracted you to the Star Control franchise? Star Control II was my favorite game of all time. When Accolade went out of business, Infogrames picked it up, and when that went out business, Atari got it. When Atari declared bankruptcy, we picked up the publishing rights to Star Control I, II and III so we could create a home for the existing trilogy. What we want is a space a... [read more]
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With Star Control: Origins announced, people are wondering who Stardock is and what we’re all about. Many of you are already familiar with us but for those who aren’t, here’s a background. Game History When you read the comments on Stardock’s history we’re best known for our work on Galactic Civilizations and Sins of a Solar Empire. You will also see some people mention Elemental which had a rough launch but came back with its sequel and e... [read more]
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Ars Technica takes a first look at Star Control: Origins
Lee Hutchinson at Ars Technica got a sneak peek of Stardock's new Star Control: Origins game. The first short video of gameplay is with the article. You can see it all here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/10/a-first-look-at-star-control-origins-gameplay-prequel-due-for-release-in-2h17/ It's a great primer on the original series (learn more here: https://www.starcontrol.com/starcontrolclassic ) and the challenges of making a new Star Control game. Lee talks about the... [read more]