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The Spell of Remaking: Derek Paxton on transforming Elemental into Fallen...
Derek Paxton is Stardock’s Mr. Wolf. He joined Stardock after making the hit Civilization IV mod, Fall From Heaven, a which took the Civilization IV design and used it to create an enormous...
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Stardock CEO blames “diminishing” innovation in strategy games on missing...
The last few years of PC strategy gaming have been a mixed bag, according to a certain Stardock CEO, and man-with-opinions Brad Wardell thinks he knows why. The first snow of a long winter for...
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Civ IV designer Soren Johnson announces new studio, Mohawk Games — Next stop,...
Civilization IV made designer Soren Johnson one of PC strategy gaming’s brightest stars. The 2005 sequel marked the series’ pinnacle to date, but following its release, Johnson departed Firaxis and...
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CEO Brad Wardell on Stardock's big picture: strategic development and rise of...
In recent weeks, Stardock has made a number of moves that point to a very different direction for the Michigan-based publisher-developer. In addition to announcing a new edition of their Galactic...
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Galactic Civilizations 3 preview: "We're making the GalCiv 2 that we always...
Reading between the lines of an interview with Galactic Civilizations designer Paul Boyer and Stardock CEO Brad Wardell, they seem a little anxious about maintaining the values that made Galactic...
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Stardock: "Our poorest-selling DLC for PC games generates more income than...
Stardock, purveyor of strategy, released its Annual Customer Report for 2014 today, teasing the future of both developer and publisher. Since it’s over 20 pages long, I’m here to break down the...
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Fighting the inevitable in Stardock's Sorcerer King
Brad Wardell describes Sorcerer King simply: “You’re Gondor, and Sauron has the Ring. He got Frodo.”It’s an interesting place to start a fantasy 4X: you’ve already lost the familiar contest for...
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The other Gabe: Stardock CEO Brad Wardell talks independence, feminism, and...
Imagine there were another Valve. A studio that made its own quintessentially PC games, but wasn’t dependent on them to survive. A company staunch in its independence, and led by a benevolent...
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Stardock’s Brad Wardell says that there is “no way” Microsoft would turn the...
Tim Sweeney’s claims about Microsoft’s plans for the Windows Store and Windows 10 generated quite some controversy earlier this year. His accusations ranged from planning to make other games impossible...
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Ashes of the Singularity merges with standalone expansion Escalation, no...
Mega-sized RTS Ashes of the Singularity is now bigger, totally for free. Escalation, the stand-alone expansion that took it from reasonable but missing key features to one of the better RTS games on...
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