Dragon*Con, America's largest gaming/art/all things geeky convention is happening this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia, and if you're going to be attending you'll have a chance to meet Cari Begle (CariElf, Lead Developer) and Paul Boyer (Mormegil, UI, Art & Animation) live and in the flesh! Both will be in attendance and speaking at several panels again this year, giving you a chance to ask them what its like
We never take lightly the idea of removing someone from the forums, but from time to time it does happen. When it does happen, it's not the decision of one member of the team, it's something we discuss. And it takes a lot to reach that point. As someone above speculated, it was a matter of "the straw that broke the camel's back." The decision was based on his behavior as a whole on the site. While I won't cover any specifics, many on this thread can probab
You folks have some front-page lovin' for the project now too
From time to time, members of our community get together and build something for Galactic Civilizations II that really impresses us. Sometimes it's a really cool graphics mod for the game's planetary textures, or maybe it's a pack of really well-done ship designs, but whatever it is, if it wows us, we figure it'll wow you folks too. Today I'd like to shine a spotlight on the new Alternative Metaverse Project, A
A little more in the way of explanation on why you saw JoeUser this morning instead of GalCiv2.com Like Kryo said, a hard drive failed on one of our servers, in fact it was the server housing JoeUser, GalCiv.com, and several other of our websites. Instead of leaving those sites offline until we could physically bring the server back to life, we restored backups of the sites to one of our still-breathing servers. Namely the one that GalCiv2.com lives on. Seeing JoeU
This next review is our favorite around the office out of all the ones posted so far. G4 turned out a glowing review of the game that really dives deep into the raft of features we packed into the expansion pack. Like many other reviews, this one floats the idea that this is practically a sequel for all the new goodies tossed in. Here's a brief snippit: "That’s largely due to A.I. wizard Brad Wardell’s hard work ret
Gamers' Temple put up their two cents on Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar yesterday, giving it a strong 95% and their Award of Excellence. Like previous reviews, time and attention is given to the improved graphics, the new spy system, and planetary terrain types, but this one gives a little bit more attention to an aspect of the game that is oddly overlooked; ship building imp
GamingTrends tossed together a very nice review of Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar and took the game apart examining the game based on a handful of categories; graphics, sound/music, controls, gameplay, and value /replay value. Each section is individually scored with the final score of the game being the sum of the separate scores. Dark Avatar received its highest marks for gameplay and replay value, with a good bit of attention paid to how no two games you pla
It seems like every other day another fantastic review for Dark Avatar hits the web. Today's glowing review comes from the fine folks over at Gaming Nexus who handed us a 9.7 out of 10!. Reviewer Tyler Sager put the expansion pack to Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords under the microscope to try and glean from it every possible secret, find every nook and cranny where we might have hidden away new features and functionality. The tagline for the review is "A perfect expan
One of the toughest game review sites on the net, GameSpot, awarded Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar an amazing 9.1/10 and Editors' Choice Award! Jeff Lackey took the expansion pack through its paces and decided that it could be called an "expansion" only on a technicality, that it felt practically like a new game. In addition to commenting on the improved graphics, extent to which y
Critical praise continues to come in from the gaming press. Our latest review comes from the folks over at GameVortex who gave Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar a glowing 95% review. Reviewer Ricky Tucker breaks the game down into 4 categories; Graphics & Sound, Gameplay,
Some of you who purchased Dark Avatar opted to have a CD shipped to you as well as having the game available for digital distribution via Stardock Central. For those who have the physical media and want something cool to stick on your games shelf, I'd like to offer you the slimline DVD case cover designed by Paul Bo
Giving us our second perfect score are the wonderful folks over at SciFi.com. Matt Peckham penned the review, giving us an "A+" and essentially saying Dark Avatar further cements Galactic Civilizations II as the top-dog in the turn-based strategy market, the name to beat now that Master of Orion has been soundly beaten. Perhaps the most interesting part of the review comes in an aside at the very end from the author on the subject of multiplayer gaming in turn-based st
The reviews keep coming in, and Dark Avatar shows no signs of slowing down or slipping on the ratings chart! Our latest review comes from UGO.com and writer Adam Swiderski. The tagline for the review on the front page of their gaming section reads: The best turn-based strategy game around gets even better. If that doesn't give you a good idea of how well we fared in the review, here's a little blurb from the article itself: <B
Review #2 is in, and boy is it a doozie! GameSpy took a look at the final version of the game and, let me just say, they were very pleased with what they saw. The three page review, written by veteran strategy gamer Allen Rausch, pretty much waxes poetic about the new features we crammed into Dark Avatar. A choice quote: "In my original review
If you've been past the PC section of IGN today, you'll see a massive, evil looking robot staring at you framed by the words "Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar Review." This makes IGN the first media outlet to put up a review for the expansion to one of the top games of 2006. The review is a glowing endorsement of the expansion and a good read if you're on the fence about the game.
It was the immediate availability of Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar (Digital Distrib) and Gold Edition (retail). The game was released early
Nice. Now I have something to do in my reactor design class. Disclaimer: Stardock is not responsible for any nuclear disaters that may result from poor attention paid in class while playing the game. Any meltdowns, or uncontrolled chain reactions within fissionable materials are solely the responsibility of the reactor designer.
If you can't make it to the developer chat but still want a shot at having your questions asked, you can sign on to our IRC chat and join #chatquestions early. Just ask your question in the channel and I'll log it, and add it to the potential list for the dev chat Wednesday night!
Since no one else has asked... I'd love to listen live to pick up all these glorious gems, but will there be an audio file posted afterwards, on Stardock or maybe a podcast on iTunes? I gotta work and won't be able to listen live It's not going to be an audio developer chat. It'll be a plain-text IRC chat with all your favorite GalCiv 2 DA devs. We'll work to have a transcript of the chat posted the day after for anyone who can't make
Can you tell us 2 Races that won't bite the Galactic Dust? Please don't state the obious. Ahh, such are the secrets of the campaign. I mean I couldn't go and tell you that we kill off [CENSORED] in the first 5min, now could I? It's almost as bad as me telling you that [CENSORED] get the [CENSORED] that causes the great [CENSORED]. I wouldn't want to spoil it for you <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" border
UPDATE: If you can't make it to the developer chat but still want a shot at having your questions asked, you can sign on to our IRC chat and join #chatquestions early. Just ask your question in the channel and I'll log it, and add it to the potential list for the dev chat Wednesday night! This
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So the game is "Gold" and your mouse finger is getting that galactic genocidal twitch again. You want to subjugate races, forge treaties, establish your trade empire and deploy your newly designed "Vicious Knid" Class destroyer against your opponents. Alas, you'll have to wait a bit longer before satisfying your inner megalomaniac, and for the time being draw your Galactic Civilizations sustenance from these two succulent previews from <a href="http://www.gameshark.com/
Last week was a good week if you're a Galactic Civilizations II fan eagerly awaiting the release of Dark Avatar. Two great previews went up that are packed with a lot of information. The first comes from 1UP.Com, posted last Wednesday. Writer Mike Nelson took a crack at the latest beta build and is personally comforted by the Drengin's continued dominance in the interstellar culinary field. But Drengin Fire Chili aside, Mike took some time to look closely at some of
