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Yes, please! Stardock is trying to get the rights to Master of Orion and Star Control. Hard to believe, but I enjoy games other than World of Warcraft. Back in the day, I spent hours and hours playing Star Control 2, that game was fantastic! There’s a fan project to get a working version of Star Control 2 up and running on modern PCs, but an new game in the franchise would be more likely to draw me in today. Master of Orion 1 and 2 were also high on my hit list, and were some of the only games to really draw me away from my Civilization obsession.

Stardock is the creator of the excellent Galactic Civilizations series, so if anyone could be trusted with these heirlooms from my childhood, I think they can. I’m excited and eager to see what happens next!

Wow. Those folks at Stardock aren’t afraid to speak their minds! Check out this post.

Another game that has been off the radar until recently was Sins of a Solar Empire. With a small budget, it has already sold about 200,000 copies in the first month of release. It’s the highest rated PC game of 2008 and probably the best selling 2008 PC title. Neither of these titles have CD copy protection.

And yet we don’t get nearly the attention of other PC games. Lack of marketing on our part? We bang on the doors for coverage as next as the next shop. Lack of advertising? Open up your favorite PC game publication for the past few months and take note of all the 2 page spreads for Sins of a Solar Empire. So we certainly try.

But we still don’t get the editorial buzz that some of the big name titles do because our genre isn’t considered as “cool” as other genres. Imagine what our sales would be if our games had gotten game magazine covers and just massive editorial coverage like some of the big name games get.

I’ve always been impressed with their candor in talking about the development process. I remember reading some great bits on how they were working on the Galactic Civ 2 AI. Go page through their journals, it’s mighty interesting.