Chris Taylor's team at Gas Powered Games are creating something very original and exciting in Demigod which expands the possibilities of PC strategy gaming," said David Gardner, CEO of Infogrames, the parent company of ATARI.
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Gas Powered Games announced today that the Demigod Pre-Order Beta test is now live. Demigod's publisher Stardock will continue to provide limited access to the Betas through pre-order signups.
TGR - "Though the game isn't due for a release until spring of next year, you can pre-order it right now. You can choose from either a digital download for $44.95 or the retail box for $49.95 plus shipping and handling.
Gas Powered Games announced that Stardock will be the exclusive, worldwide publishing partner for Demigod. Set for release in February 2009, Demigod is a team-based action game with RTS and RPG elements. Demigod will be available for purchase at traditional retail stores and via Stardock's digital distribution service. All pre-orders will be valid to participate in a public beta that begins this June.
Gas Powered Games' RTS-RPG hybrid PC project Demigod has been delayed. It was originally due to release in late 2008, but it's now been pushed back to February '09.This is to allow more time for a public beta which is scheduled to kick off in summer. In related news, Sins of a Solar Empire publisher Stardock has struck a deal with GPG to publish the game.It's not entirely clear, but this could mean thatDemigod will be ...
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The upcoming RPG/RTS from Gas Powered Games is having development help from Stardock Games, the guys behind Sins of a Solar Empire.
Shacknews is reporting that Gas Powered Games' RTS-RPG hybrid Demigod (PC) has been delayed into 2009 and will be published by digital and retail distributor Stardock, the two companies announced today.
Gas Powered Games has told Eurogamer that Demigod is "completely playable" and "fairly certain" for a 2008 release.
Rumors of Space Siege and Demigod, two of Gas Powered Games' upcoming projects, being announced for consoles have been whirling for a while now. At GDC 2008 in San Francisco, IGN had a chance to ask GPG's Chris Taylor if there were any status updates.
Chris Taylor's Gas Powered Games is best known for its RTS Supreme Commander and its action-RPG series Dungeon Siege -- so maybe it's just the natural course of evolution that the developer's newest game, Demigod, should borrow a bunch from both of those genres: It's an action/RPG/RTS hybrid, inspired partly by the popular WarCraft III mod Defense of the Ancients.