Stardock Games 2015

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This year we have SIX games (not including Star Control) that are being released or going into early access this year.

We want to make sure we highlight the coverage these titles get on the major game sites that would traditionally cover these titles.

Please comment below on any sites you think I’m missing that have substantial traffic that you think are likely to cover PC games as well as ones you would like us to talk to.

 

Game Sites:

  PCG IGN GS RPS GI Poly
GC3 GC3 Preview
Review

Video preview
Review

 EA Preview
Video preview		 Review Review  
SK  SK Preview   Review Review    
OTC  OTC Preview  OTC Preview EA Review

EA Prevew
Interview

 Test Chamber  
Servo News   Article      
Ashes Prevew Preview Article   Prevew  
[C]            

 

Game Sites:

  QT3 PCGamesN GamesBeat Shack Ars Giz
GC3  

GC3 Preview
Interview
Review

        
SK     Review      
OTC Five Reasons to Play          
Servo  

News
Interview

        
Ashes   News
Preview		  Preview      
[C]            

 

Game Sites:

  Destructoid  Eurogamer  Space Sector  SGJ  Gamewatcher   USgamer
GC3   Review     Review  
SK  Video prevew   EA First Impressions   Link
Review		  
OTC  OTC preview       Link Soren Johnson interview
Servo            
Ashes            
[C]            

 

Game Sites:

  eXplorminate  Games Arena  Niche Gamer  The Escapist  GWW  Giant Bomb
GC3 Review  Demo: GC3  GC3 Preview Review GC3 Preview  
SK

Let's Try Beta 4
Let's Play Beta 5
Review

  Demo: SK Review      
OTC  

Demo: OTC
OTC preview

        OTC Video
Servo     Preview News    
Ashes     Preview News    
[C]            

 

Game Sites:

   Kotaku Video Game Blog Gaming Nexus      
GC3            
SK   Review Review      
OTC  OTC News          
Servo            
Ashes            
[C]            



YouTubers / Let’s Play

  TB AJ  Quill18  Arumba  shenryyr2  EnterElysium
GC3            
SK            
OTC     Let's Try: OTC     First Impression
Servo            
Ashes            
[C]            

 

YouTubers / Let’s Play

   Day[9]          
GC3            
SK            
OTC  OTC videos          
Servo            
Ashes            
[C]            

 

Also, if you see coverage, please add it to the comments. Thanks again!

 

Screenshots:

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What: Sorcerer King: Build a kingdom in a world dominated by the malevolent Sorcerer King.
Who: From the team that made Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes.
When: Release date: March 2015

 

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What: Galactic Civilizations III: You are the leader of an interstellar civilization that must expand into the galaxy.
Who: Er, the team who made Galactic Civilizations II.
When: Release date: April 2015

 

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What: Offworld Trading Company: Build the most powerful company on Mars no matter what it takes.
Who: From the designer of Civilization IV
When: Early Access begins: February 2015

 

On deck:

[A] From the team that worked on Age of Empires I/II/III and Age of Mythology

[B] From the team that helped make Civilization IV, Civilization V, Railroads and much more.

[C] Stay tuned…

(and wait till you see what we have in store for 2016…)

 

***Updates***

2/23: Added The Escapist, Geeks With Wives, GWW GalCiv3 preview, Giant Bomb OTC preview video.

2/24: Added: Game Informer Test Chamber video (OTC), USGamer Soren Johnson interview, Day[9] to YouTube and OTC videos, IGN preview (OTC), added Kokatu and OTC article.

2/25: Added Destructiod OTC preview, Games Arena OTC preview

3/5: Added Servo and Ashes of the Singularity to the lists. Niche Gamer, IGN, PC Gamer, and GamesBeat previews. News posts from IGN and PCGamesN.

3/6: Added Game Informer preview.

3/9: Added The Escapist Ashes of the Singularity and Servo news.

3/11: Added PCGamesN news, RPS interview about OTC.

3/19: Added Niche Gamer Servo preview.

4/1: Added Servo preview from PCGamesN.

4/7: Added Ashes of the Singularity preview from PCGamesN, GameSpot OTC Early Access review.

4/10: Added GameSpot article about Ashes of the Singularity and Servo.

4/24: Added GameSpot video of Galactic Civilizations III.

4/27: Added IGN video of Galactic Civilizations III

5/8: Added PCGamesN interview for Galactic Civilizations III.

6/11: Added various Galactic Civilizations III reviews.

8/14: Added various Sorcerer King reviews

9/3: Added GameSpot review of Sorcerer King.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

GameWatcher should be on your radar, here's the coverage they've already given for Galactic Civilizations III - http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/galactic-civilizations-iii

Offworld Trading Company - http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/offworld-trading-company

Sorcerer King - http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/sorcerer-king

Galactic Civilizations IIIhttp://www.gamewatcher.com/games/galactic-civilizations-iii
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Lately I've really enjoyed Explorminate, Space Sector, and Space Game Junkie, but I think they're all pretty small. They've already provided some coverage of your upcoming stuff.

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Space Sector and Space Game Junkie. Not big sites, but IMO visited by your target audience exclusively. 

EDIT> Beat me to it, LOL.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Here are a few youtubers who like strategy games:

https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18             204,013 subscribers  
https://www.youtube.com/user/arumba07       114,046 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/user/shenryyr2         66,070 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/user/Marbozir           44,736 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/user/SBFMadDjinn    21,326 subscribers  
https://www.youtube.com/user/GetDaved          15,722 subscribers  

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I'll be covering Sovereign and Galactic Civilizations 3 next week on: http://www.games-arena.ro/

After that it'll be looking at OTC soon after that.

Now, I wouldn't call the site major, compared to ones that use English. But in the obscure eastern european language niche, we are quite notable-ish.

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Reply #6 from SorcererKing Forums Top

It's not big, but you should probably include Explorminate on the list.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting unacomn, reply 5

I'll be covering Sovereign and Galactic Civilizations 3 next week on: http://www.games-arena.ro/

After that it'll be looking at OTC soon after that.

Now, I wouldn't call the site major, compared to ones that use English. But in the obscure eastern european language niche, we are quite notable-ish.
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I love the avatar, unacomn!  It brings back memories :)

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

http://www.eurogamer.net/    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurogamer)

http://www.usgamer.net/

same network as GamesIndustry.biz  ... is that the gi you listed above?

 

a box of various sites at the bottom of the wiki XD

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

arstechnica.com is a  ather ecclectic tech site (it/infosec/physics/biomed/pc hw/coaoles/macs/etc/etc.. Oh and games sometime :).

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/review-xcom-enemy-unknown-is-a-credit-to-the-name/

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/10/civilization-beyond-earth-next-time-reach-for-the-stars/

a couple recent reviews they did that come to mind

 

not sure what I hit on my phone to mske that first line big.

Reply #10 from SorcererKing Forums Top

I always check out Rock, Paper, Shotgun's (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/) coverage first. Well after metacritic.com, of course, but as metacritic just aggregates reviews from other sites,  I don't suppose it counts.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

[A] From the team that worked on Age of Empires I/II/III and Age of Mythology
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Nitrous engine-powered?  Please be! B)

 

What: Galactic Civilizations III: You are the leader of an interstellar civilization that must expand into the galaxy.
Who: Er, the team who made Galactic Civilizations II.
End of quote

Is it really the same team? I thought you are the only person that worked on both GalCiv II and III. I may be mistaken though.

Reply #12 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting Gandhialf, reply 11


 


Is it really the same team? I thought you are the only person that worked on both GalCiv II and III. I may be mistaken though.

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Nope, while there are new people on GalCiv III, other than Cari (who's on maternity leave) the GalCiv II team is on GalCiv III.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 12
Nope, while there are new people on GalCiv III, other than Cari (who's on maternity leave) the GalCiv II team is on GalCiv III.
End of Frogboy's quote

I see, thanks.

Reply #14 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Thanks for all the eXplorminate love, guys. We're not "big" yet, but one day we'll be the definitive site for all things 4X. We're working hard on it :)

Reply #15 from SorcererKing Forums Top

PS: I think you mean "February 2016" for OWTC. 

Also, if SK is due next month, does that mean we will see Beta 5 this month?

Reply #16 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I second Quill18...probably one of the best 4X / Strategy youtubers.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18

Reply #17 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Scott Manley plays a variety of space-oriented games:

https://m.youtube.com/user/szyzyg - 360k subscribers

Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top

Stickied this post and I'll be helping to update the post to keep up with the suggestions.

Reply #20 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Wait, why did SpaceGameJunkie and SpaceSector both get added when we (eXplorminate) have more coverage of both your main games and are a 4X-centered site?

We also almost have 700 members in our Steam group. We have quite a few LP's of Sorcerer Koing and GC3 footage too.

It really sucks to be snubbed like that... 

Granted, we're in the middle of a website upgrade and a bit of content is missing, but we have covered your games much more so than just about any site, if not every other site.

Reply #21 from Offworld Forums Top

I always enjoy it when any combination of quill18, arumba, mathasgames, northernlion, enterelysium baertaffy and Shenyrry2 play a multiplayer game together.

 

 

Also, some of those old SC2 casters like day[9] or huskystarcraft might be interested in some new life for some multiplayer action as well.  In particular I can totally see day[9] doing a 'day[9]'s day off'  of subscriber multiplayer battles of OTC.

 

Scott Manley is also awesome. Not sure if anything in that list is totally up his ally thou. maybe one or two games of OTC. 

Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting XWerewolfX, reply 20

Wait, why did SpaceGameJunkie and SpaceSector both get added when we (eXplorminate) have more coverage of both your main games and are a 4X-centered site?

We also almost have 700 members in our Steam group. We have quite a few LP's of Sorcerer Koing and GC3 footage too.

It really sucks to be snubbed like that... 
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Relax friend. I am updating this post (helping Brad) while working on many other projects so this is a continual WIP. :)

 

Reply #23 from SorcererKing Forums Top

I'm not upset, Island Dog, just passionate. This genre is my favorite by far and my group spends a lot of time and effort working on our site. It would just be nice to see that it's recognized, especially when you've included two websites that are obviously in the same "size" category and also because we do spend time covering your games when many others do not. 

 

I apologize if I came off in any other way. 

 

 

Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top

As promised, I have made overview videos of SK and GC3, which people have seen, plural. Some of them weren't even spambots.

http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/11/demo-galactic-civilizations-3/

http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/10/demo-sorcerer-king/

Really happy to see Shadow World is still in the game.

Reply #25 from Stardock Forums Top

Updated again. :)