Sins of a Solar Empire Expansion Announced

August 29, 2008

Sins of an ‘Expanded’ Solar
Empire

– Multiple Expansion Packs
Announced, First Pack Set for Late 2008 –

Stardock announced today that the
award-winning and best-selling PC strategy game, Sins of a Solar Empire, will
feature several micro-expansions over the next year. The first expansion pack,
Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment is currently in development and will be
released late 2008 for $9.95 via Stardock’s Impulse digital distribution
platform
www.impulsedriven.com

Developed by Ironclad Games, Sins of
a Solar Empire is a real-time strategy game that adds an extreme amount of depth
normally only seen in turn-based releases. One of the highest ranking real-time
strategy games of 2008, the title has sold over half a million copies and won
several Editor’s Choice awards.

Specifically, Entrenchment promises
to bring fans a Starbase defense platform for each race (extremely powerful and
armored bases housing a variety of weapons and other upgrades capable of
defending an entire planet), turret upgrades for each race to make them more
powerful (not only stronger than the current versions, but also upgradable with
long-range weapons), mine fields and a Subspace Inhibitor platform that will
slow enemy ships within its range.

“Sins of a Solar Empire, which was
already an amazing game experience, is getting some outstanding ways to conquer
others or defend your race,” said Stardock CEO and President Brad Wardell.
“We’re excited about being able to deliver expansion packs in a more modular way
than traditionally. Now players can pick and choose what features they want
rather than paying a higher price for a larger expansion pack which may have
features they aren’t interested in.”

Ironclad has two additional
micro-expansions in development as well. One of which adds new diplomacy
features to the game and another that will add new technologies and ships.

The expansions are being developed
to prevent fracturing of the multiplayer community. If both players have a given
expansion pack installed, the features are available, but if one does not, the
expansion pack features are disabled for that particular game.

The expansions will be available
digitally from Stardock on the Sins website as well as via Impulse, Stardock’s
next-generation digital distribution platform.

Visit

http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com
  for more information, updates and
pre-order information.

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visit www.stardock.com