Big announcement coming Monday

Damn you for not telling more than your sub-title - 'the PC game industry is about to change'.

How big can this announcement really be?

Hmm, while I'd like to think it's an official announcement of the fantasy game, "The PC game industry is about to change..." seems to imply it'll be something else. Maybe the new digital distribution system (Impulse is it?). Hmm, a tool for buying things called Impulse. You guys are mean!

let's hope the news is that MS is abandoning directX 10.

I just hope it's not that StarDock going to use the stupid DRM scheme that was suggested (one programs checks for validity of another and so on in a game explorer).

Also I think it can be StarDock probably merges with some "big gun" , not sure it a good thing.

But the safest bet is just release of PoliticalMachine .

That would by no means change the PC game industry...

If the PC industry is finally adopting my suggestion to include brownies with every game purchase then I have but three words: it's about time.

Given how anti-DRM Stardock seem to be, I don't imagine that.

My guess: Twilight of the Arnor is actually going to be free, and everyone who pre-ordered like myself will be told to screw ourselves and Stardock run giggling into the distance with our money.

Very curious though. Though I will be supremely annoyed with Stardock if they're using "The PC game industry is about to change..." to hype something completely unworthy of such hyperbole. To justify that statement it's got to be something fairly moon shattering. (Which is like Earth shattering, only not quite as big.)

I'll keep my eyes peeled.

I know! I know! Waffles for Everyone. There, sorry to spoil the surprise!

actually, especially with their recent praise of the work with Ironclad on SOASE, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they were announcing a closer relationship, maybe symbiotic or closer, of their two companies. Two small independent companies coordinating that showcase collective will and putting the consumer first is something that would shake up the PC gaming world.

By Monday there should be a lot of good and funny guesses as to what this could be. I'll go with Stardock bought out EA, disbanded them and returned all the previous great developments houses that EA has destroyed to independent companies again .

Well, Brad did just spend a week on the west coast "on business", during which he stopped by to visit them. During that same post he talked about how their business model between publisher and developer was "far more efficient" that he felt gave them a "major advantage" over traditional methods.


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Stardock developed a new device, called the "Mind Control Center", which allows them to take over Microsoft, by mysterious means generally doubles their economic output and gives them control over everything that has to do with computers in the future.

I'd guess a merger between SD and Ironclad also.

I live in the PST time zone.
Do I have to hop a plane into EST to get the announcement?

An IPO, perhaps?   

This would be nice. It would also remove the need for the game industry to support Vista (wouldn't that be nice).

How about all PC games will be written in 8086 assembly code and will boot from their own floopy without any OS installed on the machine at all. Now *that* would be good news.   

I don't have a floppy drive.  

[quote]let's hope the news is that MS is abandoning directX 10.This would be nice. It would also remove the need for the game industry to support Vista (wouldn't that be nice).[quote]

Whats wrong with Vista? XP had its problems when it first came out, the game industry supported it, and now its a powerful gaming OPS. Vista has the pottential to be better if people support it.

Alright, you've aroused my curiosity.

The rest is just slow torture as I wait for monday.

I hope the news is EA Games admitting that they are evil!

Bah. Now the weekend will be terribly slow in the passing. Hey, that's not so bad...

It could be an announcement of a publishing agreement between Stardock and Ironclad, but since we're in Imaginationland, I'll say that Stardock and Ironclad have merged and formed a new company called "Starclad". They have purchased majority stockholdings in EA, Sierra and Microsoft, and will enforce a dress code where everyone dresses like wizards and the material has little stars all over it.

Whatever it is, it will keep me from my homework for a long, long time.

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And to all those that say Political Machine 2008 isn't goting to rock the pillars of gaming as we know it...then they may be right, but know that it's gonna be pretty slick