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Sins of a Solar Empire developer Ironclad Games believes that the RTS genre has become niche and is now dying out. That’s the sentiment of studio co-owner and director Blair Fraser.

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has received a new patch which new maps with competitive multiplayer variants.

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The digital-only launch of Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has been so successful that independent developer Stardock is considering getting out of the retail game all together.

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If you’ve pre-ordered Sins of a Solar Empire expansion Rebellion through Steam, you can fire up the new content’s third closed beta session now. Hit the game’s forums for more details, and check out the trailer through the break.

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Spaceships, fighting, some man rambling on about wars and shit: it’s a trailer for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the RTS’s first standalone expansion. It’s out this June. Watch it below.

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Ironclad Games has launched a new teaser website, counting down to what is hopefully the reveal of its next title.

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Ironclad has dropped a few details regarding the stand-alone expansion to Sins of a Solar Empire, Rebellion, starting with the division of the game’s three factions and the Titans they will be commanding.

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Stardock has released an update for its space opera strategy epic, Sins of a Solar Empire, which polishes up the ageing graphics. The most noticeable difference in gamesradar‘s comparison shot is the lighting, which is significantly more gorgeous – that’s a technical assessment right there. If you’re not familiar with the grandest of grand real-time strategy games, hit up the website for more details.

Stardock has announced it’s releasing its library of PC games on Steam starting with Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity.

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Sins of a Solar Empire’s latest micro-expansion, Diplomacy, will not only be released during winter 2010 but it will also be getting a Beta sometime this fall.

Diplomacy will increase the number of options players can use to take over the galaxy with ambassadorial methods.

A third expansion has also been promised for the title, but there’s no word on when it will be released.

More over on Joystiq.

The second micro-expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire is going to be late, says Ironclad.

Entrenchment, the first out of three planned expansions, has been out for a bit, but Ironcald’s Blair Fraser says that the next part will be “done when it’s done”.

Sounded like Blizzard talking there for a minute.

Untitled at this point, the second update expands on diplomacy features.

Stardock announced today that Entrenchment, the first micro-expansion to Sins of a Solar Empire, will now available February 25 from Impluse, Stardock’s digital distribution site.

Entrenchment was originally slated for a November release, but is currently undergoing further testing after beta feedback.

Ironclad’s Blair Fraser aid, “It’s of paramount importance to everyone that what we’re releasing is the best and most robust content we can.”

There’s going to be extra testing after tweaks are made. Let’s hope the “robust” stuff doesn’t go out the window with this round of changes.

Stardock’s to invest $900,000 in expanding it’s Michigan Studio, Gamasutra reports.

The expansion will allow the firm to start work on a new PC game.

The move will create 53 jobs at the developer and publisher, whose shipped games include the Galactic Civilizations series and Sins of a Solar Empire.

The company was founded in 1991 and currently employs over 60 workers.

Full thing through the link.

Sins of a Solar Empire expansion Entrenchment has been delayed by a week, Stardock’s confirmed.

The space-based RTS will now ship on February 11 in the US instead of February 4.

See some new screens on Shacknews.

Stardock’s Brian Clair, speaking on the company’s forum, has confirmed that the upcoming Sins of the Solar Empire expansion, titled Entrenchment, has been delayed until next year.

The add-on to the popular space-based RTS was originally planned to release this week.

Entrenchment “will first be put through a public beta test for pre-order customers” in order to “finely hone” the product before release, said the exec.

He also notes that a final release date has not been set, and that it will “largely depend on beta feedback.”

Thanks, Joystiq.

Stardock’s Sins of the Solar Empire has sold more than 400,000 boxed copies and 100,000 digital units, according to this Gama report.

Apparently the RTS’s success is partly owed to the fact it’ll run on ancient graphics hardware.

“Sins of a Solar Empire was explicitly designed to work on a wide variety of machines,” said Stardock boss Brad Wardell. “It will run on a four-year-old video card, and it looks great.”

More through the link.

Stardock’s announced a series of “micro-expansions” for Sins of a Solar Empire, the first of which – Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment – is currently in development and will be released later this year for $9.95 via Stardock’s Impulse digital distribution platform (here).

More on IGN.

According to this CVG piece, the daftly popular US space-based RTS Sins of a Solar Empire is going to be released in Europe.

Kalypso will publish the title, apparently. Currently, the only way to buy the game in Europe is via download.

It’s be in European shops in late May or early June.

Stardock boss Brad Wardell’s confirmed that an expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire’s on the way in the “reasonably near future” in this Wired story.

The game has shot into the PC charts in the US, outselling CoD4 in the most recent NDP PC data.