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Demigod Gets Publisher, Slips To 2009

Clever press release writers, knowing that the longer the release the less likely we are to read all the way to the end. I nearly missed out on the delay of Gas Powered Games' upcoming RTS RPG Demigod in this announcement concerning a publishing agreement reached with Stardock of Sins of a Solar Empire and Object Desktop fame. Stardock will be handling publishing duties and digital delivery of Demigod for the PC, originally slated for a late 2008 release. The reason for the delay?

To fully support a public beta that will launch this summer, the launch date for Demigod has been moved to February 2009. This will give the development team sufficient time to incorporate feedback from the beta players while polishing the game.
In order to play early, we must first learn to play late. Very zen. To further distract us from the delay, here's some screenshots.
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10:20 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Mike Fahey
2,823 views, 25 comments

Latest by arstal: If you really want the game this summer, just pre-order it, you'll get all the betas. (Pretty much standard Stardock policy) Waiting for SD's not-MoM at the moment, will worry about other stuff later. As for system specs- usually Stardock games more »

supreme commander

Supreme Commander 2 Waiting For PCs Of The Distant Future

Supreme Commander creator Chris Taylor has big ideas for Supreme Commander 2. Ideas involving extra factions. Thing is, he can't execute on them. Not yet, anyways. Because modern PCs, with their SLis and quad cores and whatnot, just aren't capable of doing what he wants them to do:
... the only thing stopping me from doing it [adding new factions] on any sequel is memory. I've been told by my engineers that for Supreme Commander 2, I don't have enough memory in a PC with 4GB of RAM to have more factions.
I'd like to think he's joking, but after what they pulled on the first Supreme Commander, he may well not be. And if not, anyone wanting more SC factions (and I bet loads more stuff) will just have to wait for the future to become the present.
Taylor: Hardware stalling Supreme Commander 2 [PC Zone, via CVG]

2:30 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Luke Plunkett
2,288 views, 57 comments

Latest by null: @dsmx: contato Olá, A Promo Web Network vem por meio desta, oferecer os seus serviços de consultoria e divulgação de sites mecanismos de buscas. Com o surgimento dos links patrocinados, a nos especializamos na otimização de resultados publicando e divulgando os sites more »

pc gaming

Chris Taylor - Secure PC Gaming Is The Future

If PC gaming is to survive, the old ways must die. So says Gas Powered Games boss Chris Taylor, who believes that rampant piracy will kill the industry unless a move is made towards secure games - games hosted on a server that require player authentication in order to play. In fact, Taylor says that such a move could not only save PC gaming, but potentially lower prices all around.

"It inconveniences a little but now they know why. And then we can get the economics back in line and maybe we can actually start offering it up at a lower price point in the future. So it will come around full circle"
The man has a valid point. PC game piracy is one of the most prevalent types, mainly because it is the easiest - just download and go. I've often wondered how PC developers felt knowing that the moment the game they worked so hard on hit store shelves it would be up on the internet for free. What do you think? A bit of hassle in exchange for a healthier industry and the potential for lower prices in the long run? Certainly sounds fair to me.

Secure PC gaming could bring prices down - Taylor [GamesIndustry.biz]

10:20 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Mike Fahey
5,221 views, 311 comments

Latest by meandering_drivel: 'secure pc gaming' PC gaming and secure seem a bit mutually exclusive, don't you think? A secure pc is really nothing more than a console... so he's basically suggesting that pc gaming is going to phase out. more »

movies

Uwe Boll's Dungeon Siege Unleashed

The Montreal Film Journal raves about In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale: "Fuck "The Lord Of The Rings", this is how it's done!" Of course the reviewer then goes on to explain that he is lying, but for one, shining moment you can almost imagine Uwe Boll getting the tiniest bit of a stiffy. His latest film opens today in theaters across North America, and from the reviews I have read so far it almost sounds worth going to see just how amazingly terrible it is. My personal favorite so far comes from Rick Groen of the Globe and Mail, who took a sort of liveblogging approach to the review.
7:15 p.m. Flick finally starts. Appear to be in a medieval castle. The bedroom. Naked Ray Liotta spoons naked Leelee Sobieski. Close-up of Ray. Looks like he just jetted first-class into Middle Ages. Straight from Goodfellas. That's some Witness Protection Program.
Oh screw it, I'm going. I'll let you know how it turns out if I don't die laughing.

8:20 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Mike Fahey
5,323 views, 91 comments

Latest by Kirth_Gersen: @FellTheDabus: Money, personal issues and lack of casting invitations (or lack of scripts being sent). Now don't forget Kingsley appeared in Bloodrayne. From "Gandhi", "Sexy Beast" and "House of Sand and Fog" to that!... hmm now there you have a real mystery. more »

demigod

Gas Powered Games Unveils Demigod To Good Peons

The latest issue of Games For Windows *checks mailbox* should be arriving at subscriber's doors any day now, but 1UP teases one of the mag's reveals today, Gas Powered Games' Demigod. The follow up to Supreme Commander borrows from Defense of the Ancients, bringing a multiplayer-focused (demi)god game that blends role-playing, strategy and action into one tasty supernatural package. Like Defense of the Ancients for Warcraft III, hero focused combat is the name of the game. Only one screen, available at 1UP, is only display, but the coming issue of GFW is promised to have many more.

Demigod Revealed [1UP]

5:40 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Michael McWhertor
4,879 views, 27 comments

Latest by Airswoop: @One_Way_Mule: Well then, that explains why everything other than TA/CC was utter trash. more »

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Supreme Commander Shines On The 360

Well speak of the devil! X-Play's 2008 Best Strategy Game award-winner Supreme Commander is heading to the 360 early next year, perhaps gunning for the top spot among the 360's library of strategy titles, which mainly consists of PC RTS games it has already beaten. How were they beaten? Giant killer robots. 9 out of 10 dentists recommend giant killer robots along with regular brushing to help prevent tooth decay, according to the national bureau of stuff Fahey just made up. It's true!*
*- It's a lie.

4:30 PM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,037 views, 71 comments

Latest by BornToFlail: @Draconis: Ha! Brilliant, can't wait. more »

so true

Gaming Should Be More Like Mowing The Lawn

We run developer quotes a lot here on Kotaku, but this one might go down in history as extra special. From Dungeon Siege/Supreme Commander/Total Annihilation's Chris Taylor, this is what it should feel like to play a video game:
When I ride the lawnmower I don't think about steering and cutting grass... I think about life. I think about work. I think about things I have to do. I recharge - charge my batteries up.
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12:00 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Mark Wilson
3,597 views, 68 comments

Latest by ERazER: No wonder his games suck. more »

sob

Chris Taylor Talks Weepy Gamers

You've heard of Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor before from games like Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander and the Dungeon Sieges. And while they're all good game in their own right, none of them are real tear jerkers (other than, possibly, the occasion tears of my opponents as they're crushed...nm, even I can't keep up this full of crap tirade). So when someone like Taylor starts talking teary-eyed gamers, we get interested.

Hollywood has a cry button...That's damn refined art...It's like science. They were in a lab researching it and refining it. It's the science of refining the art and the tools and it'll take us years and years.
But that doesn't mean he's going to stop trying with his upcoming RPG Space Siege...potential spoiler alert:

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12:20 PM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Mark Wilson
2,073 views, 22 comments

Latest by fuchikoma: Some games have made me teary-eyed, not even for sad scenes neccesarily. Hollywood on the other hand hits the "cry button" and I think "oh god, this is cheesy." Then again there are directors who don't resort to "the button approach" more »

they are coming

Supreme Commander 2 Confirmed

Back in February of this year Gas Powered Games unleashed Supreme Commander on the PC gaming public, delighting both RTS and giant robot fans everywhere with its focus on story and the awesome strategic zoom. Now publisher THQ has announced that a sequel will be strategically zooming to a PC near you this November. More »

8:20 AM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,418 views, 34 comments

Latest by TheDarkerPhantom: I think Supreme Commander is a great game the only problem with the game is unit blance doesn't exist. When it takes 60+ flying units to even get some progress, which means after you move those units, you need more »

gas powered games

Consoles to Get Gas Powered

The developers behind PC hits Dungeon Siege and more recently Supreme Commander have confirmed that along with more SC goodness, they are hard at work on an original title for a next-generation console. Once again, job postings act as a source of gaming news:
"Projects include PC titles within the Supreme Commander franchise, PC titles with original IP and something new - an original IP that is the company's first next-generation console project"

So will this new game be an RTS? An RPG? The company says the project will come as a surprise to fans of their previous work, so they're probably straying from those two genres. I'll go ahead and guess puzzle-based Japanese dating sim, because when details finally appear you'll have long forgotten this post anyway. More »

10:20 AM on Fri Apr 20 2007
By Mike Fahey
942 views, 9 comments

Latest by Alski: I think it is going to be a more kid centric game and there will be monkeys in it that build things for you. more »

frankenreview

Frankenreview: Supreme Commander (PC)

To some, it's enough to be a commander. But to others, militaristic exultation is more difficult to grasp...some need to not just command, but command supremely. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By Mark Wilson
8,588 views, 44 comments

gas powered games

Gas Powered Games Next Title a Comedy?

GamesIndustry reports that Gas Powered Games, still entrenched in the final tweaks for Supreme Commander development, are already hard at work on hyping their next title: a console comedy. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Feb 16 2007
By Brian Crecente
229 views, 11 comments

supreme commander

Supreme Commander E306 Trailer

God, this game makes me wish someone would just go out and invent already the cybernetic brain interface required for me to actually be able to beat an RTS game. The deformed fetal nubs that have replaced my arms after a life-time of subterranean basement sloth aren't really good for the rapid-fire pressings of a foreign language of hot keys. More »

6:20 AM on Fri May 12 2006
By brownlee
179 views, 4 comments