Stardock is pleased to announce that Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has gone into final gamma testing. The expansion pack to the critically acclaimed space strategy game, Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, completes the Dread Lord saga with the return of the powerful Precursor civilization, the Arnor. 

Arguably the most comprehensive expansion pack in strategy game history, Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has more new features and content than Galactic Civilizations II had over the original.

A labor of love, Twilight of the Arnor is nearly complete.  This week, we are putting it through final gamma testing as lots of content and goodies that were held back during the public beta are integrated in, tested, polished, etc. 

NPD has released the top 10 best selling PC games for February. Here are the results:
February 2008

Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision) Sins Of A Solar Empire (Stardock) World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest (Blizzard) The Sims 2 Free Time Expansion Pack (EA) World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack (Blizzard) World Of Warcraft (Blizzard) The Orange Box (EA) The Sims 2 Deluxe (EA) The Sims: Castaway Stories (EA) Crysis (EA)Stardock's Sins of a Solar Empire was #2 overall for the ...

I admit it. I'm a bad man.  It's not my fault though, I just don't have enough free time to be a good man.  You see, I play World of Warcraft.  It's a massively multiplayer on-line role playing game (MMORPG).  In MMOs, you are, in theory, supposed to group up with other players to go on quests and such.  I did this a lot when I was first got the game.  I even have a guild with around 100 members.  But as time has gone on, it's increasingly difficult to find peo...

..A long time ago Stardock developed a game for OS/2 called Galactic Civilizations. It was published by a small company called "Advanced Idea Machines". Stardock never saw a penny of royalties from the retail release of the game.  Learning from history, for Galactic Civilizations 2 on OS/2, Stardock decided to self-publish it.  To get to retail, it worked with a distributor called Micro Central.  Micro Central filed for bankruptcy and never paid a cent in royalties.  Years la...

I used to build my own machines. I took great pride of getting the last clock cycle of power out of them. To get one more frame per second out of them.  Then I got married, had kids, and now just am happy to be able to play games at all let alone overlocking my video card or purchasing a premium motherboard.

So when Half-Life 2 came out, I decided to get a new computer. One that was pretty well set up for gaming. I haven't played HL2 yet because I want to experience it in its maximum vis...