Demigod - Release Schedule Details

Official Demigod website has details on Demigod’s release schedule as well as additional details about the BETAs.

 August. Beta 1. This will not be a “fun” beta. It’s a stress test of the engine. Those of you who were in the Sins of a Solar Empire beta or the GalCiv betas know we’re not kidding. There will be very little balancing in this version. It will also be multiplayer-only at this stage.

October. Beta 2.  This beta won’t be that fun either but it’ll be better than Beta 1. THIS is the key beta in which players give us their ideas and suggestions.  The beta process isn’t just to find bugs but to let players suggestion changes to the game.  There will be a series of Betas 2 (2A, 2B, 2C, etc.) that will be released in which we begin incorporating player suggestions. These will happen quite rapidly thanks to Impulse.

December. Beta 3. This may or may not be a public beta depending on how things go.  What we have done in the past is give players who have been particularly helpful access to late betas so that we can keep tweaking and enhancing with their feedback.

January. Gammas (release candidates).

February. Tentative release date at worldwide retail in multiple languages.

We do plan for the game to be available at stores roughly the same time in North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia/NZ at the very least.

Users who are part of the beta will be getting something special but I am not at liberty to talk about it yet.

Stardock Impulse is Here!

Stardock’s answer to Steam is here. In case you’re not aware, here’s a bit of info:

Introduction
Impulse is Stardock’s new state of the art digital distribution platform. Impulse allows users to quickly and easily find their favorite game or software and download it automatically to their PC as well as get the most out of their existing games and software.

What makes Impulse so great?
Impulse has multiple features that makes it one of the best digital distribution platforms around. Some of these great features include:

• Doesn’t need to be on-line to play single player games.Supports all types of PC software (games, applications, utilities, etc.).
• Hundreds of games, applications, utilities, themes, and more available to purchase or free download.
• Includes the Impulse dock which lets users organize all their programs and data together regardless of where it came from.
• Next-generation community features integrated in. Make friends and play games together on-line, start a blog, chat, and more.
• Delivers a next generation virtual platform that developers can freely use to add exciting new features to their games and apps.

Grab Impulse from here. (1.8MB)

Stardock Impulse to Compete with VALVe’s Steam?

Amidst all the success of Valve’s brilliant Steam platform, the developer behind Sins of A Solar Empire; Stardock, is cooking up it’s very own content distribution service. Named “Impulse”. Stardock is set to fully attack Steam with bucketload of game titles, in-house applications and a jazzy (if bloated) interface.

Impulse, a new digital platform being put together by a consortium of developers, websites, hardware vendors, and game publishers and led by Stardock is designed to do this and much more.

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