Entrenchment, the first expansion to Stardock's PC strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire, has been delayed. Its target release date was a mere week away but now it's been pushed into next year.
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On Friday, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell revealed to Edge that his company is developing a non-intrusive copyright security solution for external publishers.

The initiative came in the wake of The Gamer's Bill of Rights, which implores game makers to ditch obnoxious copy protection methods. Stardock has been an advocate of non-intrusive copy protection for years, selling commercially successful games such as Galactic Civilizations and Sins of a Solar Empire that have no copy protection.

But as Stardock approached major publishers to agree to the terms of the Bill, they were still unwilling to go DRM-free.
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GamingShogun writes, "Kalypso Media has announced that they are working on four add-on packs for their 4X game, Sins of a Solar Empire, the first of which is due out at the end of this year.

The first Add On will include:
- Star Bases, which can be customized and upgraded over time
- Race specific Star Bases which will have a unique variety of upgradable characteristics. The ability to upgrade your Star Bases is limited so players will have to think strategically and plan carefully..."
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1UP writes: "The latest DRM scandal is upon us. It seems that every few months now, PC gamers take up their pitchforks and storm the Internet with anti-anti-piracy furor. DRM, short for digital rights management, has been unpopular with a certain tech-savvy crowd for years, but the outcry over the limitations placed on this year's biggest PC game, Spore, is unprecedented. The game continues to receive a downpour of one-star ratings by Amazon.com users (average current rating: one-and-one-half stars), and many online pundits speculate that the game, which hit file sharing sites before the game's release, is well on its way to becoming the most pirated game in history. Already, two separate concessions have been made to the angry mob: Electronic Arts, the game's publisher, upgraded the number of installs customers get per disc from three (installed on different machines) to five. Later, they added the ability to allow multiple players to have their own accounts on a single copy, since in its original form, Spore wouldn't allow different members of the same household to play their own games on one disc."
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Stardock announced today that the award-winning and best-selling PC strategy game, Sins of a Solar Empire, will feature several micro-expansions over the next year. The first expansion pack, Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment is currently in development and will be released late 2008 for $9.95 via Stardock's Impulse digital distribution platform.
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Sins of a Solar Empire update will arrive in late 2008, and will cost $9.95 (£5). It will arrive in three parts, each expanding different aspects of the game.
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Kalypso Media has told Strategy Informer that they've had to delay the European release of Sins of a Solar Empire due to manufacturing issues. The delay will see a few days difference, as it's now scheduled to be released on 20th June, 2008.
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The ever popular Sins of a Solar Empire has been patched to version 1.5. It has memory optimization, bug fixes, some new maps and improved multiplayer play.
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From the article: "...Kalypso Media has landed themselves a winner, as they have penned a deal with Ironclad Games to distribute Sins of a Solar Empire in the European and Middle-Far Eastern markets. As for our European cousins from across the pond, they should get the game around May or June. No word yet on the release date for the other territories..."
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According to Voodoo Extreme, Patch 1.04 for Sins of a Solar Empire is out. The much anticipated update to the popular space strategy game is also a substantial one. Here is the official change log...
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Knowing Assassin's Creed would be coming out on the PC, I made a conscious effort to avoid the console versions for the past several months so that I could have an unspoiled experience on my platform of choice. I'm finally having that experience, and it was worth it, but one thing has been bothering me: it's impossible to stop playing. And not in the "Just five more minutes" way that Sins of a Solar Empire is impossible ... » Read More

4X PC strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire is to benefit from what's being termed "sophisticated" new online systems shortly."...it means that a sophisticated ladder, matchmaking, account system will become a reality in the near future. You see, Stardock, Ironclad, and Gas Powered Games are doing something that, to my knowledge, has never been done before. We three are combining our experiences and talents to build a unified ... » Read More

The news was revealed a bit earlier in the week, when Wired reported that Stardock CEO Brad Wardell had revealed that Sins of a Solar Empire will get an expansion. Chalk that up to Wired getting a chance to meet with Stardock at the beginning of his press tour through the Bay Area, but IGN finally caught up with him on Thursday, and they talked about success of Sins, which was released in February. During the conversation, he dropped some hints about what might come next.
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A first expansion for PC space strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire is in the pipeline.According to Wired, president and CEO of Stardock - the game's publisher - Brad Wardell let slip that the expansion will appear in the reasonably near future.He went on to divulge that a "full on campaign" will feature in the expansion, along with new playable factions.“With most RTS games shifting towards fast action at the ... » Read More

Wired writes: "After gushing about how amazing Sins of a Solar Empire is in my recent review of the title, you can imagine my excitement yesterday when Stardock President and CEO Brad Wardell revealed that an expansion for the game is coming in the reasonably near future.

While he couldn't nail down a date for the expansion pack's release, Mr. Wardell did mention that the expansion would include some much-requested features including a "full on campaign" mode as well as new playable factions."
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Shacknews reports that a Sins of a Solar Empire singleplayer demo is now available at FileShack, for those of you interested in trying out Ironclad's recently released 4X space strategy game. The 536mb download includes four tutorials, two small maps, one randomly generated medium map and a 90 minute play limit.
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Not only is Sins of a Solar Empire selling well via download distributions, but it's nearing the top of the charts for retail sales as well. The NPD group has released a list of the top 10 selling PC games for the month of February 2008.
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After much consideration, the GameSpy staff determine their favorite game for the month of February, and the runners-up.
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In just 23 Earth days, Sins of a Solar Empire has managed to sell over 100,000 copies. This makes it the best selling PC game of last week, toppling even the mighty Call of Duty 4, and Orange Box.

Look for a demo of the game soon at www.stardock.com.
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2404.Org writes:

"Stardock has announced that 'Sins of a Solar Empire' has officially launched and the game is available to purchase online or at retailers.

Yesterday marked the launch of the digital release of Sins of a Solar Empire, today at 2pm EST, the retail edition should begin showing up at retailers such as Best Buy."
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