April 6, 2009
Rising to the Pantheon: Demigod
Goes Gold
New PC action strategy game to
hit retail shelves on April 14
Stardock announced today that the
highly anticipated real-time action strategy PC game, Demigod, has gone gold.
Demigod is set to hit store shelves in North America on April 14 and will also
be available for download on Stardock’s digital distribution platform Impulse.
Pre-orders are now available on Impulse for both the standard edition ($39.95)
and the collector’s edition ($49.95).
Developed by renowned gaming studio
Gas Powered Games, Demigod delivers an epic game experience by combining
elements of its acclaimed strategy game Supreme Commander and its award-winning
Dungeon Siege role-playing game series.
In Demigod, a god has fallen,
leaving an opening in the Pantheon. Players take control of a Demigod, waging
war in spectacular arenas against others to ascend to godhood.
Each battle takes place in an arena,
where players earn gold and experience in battle which can then be used to
acquire new abilities, learn magical spells, purchase better equipment and
improve their faction’s Citadel with the goal to lay waste to the opposing
faction.
Demigod makes use of Stardock’s
Impulse Reactor which provides intelligent match-making, on-line tournaments,
player skill ratings, and much more.
“We are extremely happy with how
Demigod has turned out,” said Stardock’s CEO and president Brad Wardell.
“Demigod is the kind of game that we think players will be playing years from
now. It has a really fun single-player tournament, and it has online features
that let both casual and competitive players create their own fun and unique
gaming experiences.”
"We’re proud of what the Demigod
team has accomplished," said Chris Taylor, CEO of Gas Powered Games. "They’ve
created an original world and setting, with spectacular art direction and
characters, and have matched it with unique gameplay that seamlessly mixes
elements from multiple genres."
While most PC games are released at
$49.95 or more, Demigod has been priced at only $39.95 due largely to Stardock
and GPG’s confidence that Demigod is a game that will appeal to a very broad set
of PC gamers.
For further details about Demigod,
please visit
www.demigodthegame.com.
For more information about Stardock
please visit www.stardock.com.
