Engineers are terrible at marketing.  We really are.  If you’re playing Ashes of the Singularity, you may have noticed we updated the game last week. A minor update with some major changes.  Under the covers, Nitrous got a pretty big boost.  But because it doesn’t add features, it didn’t get a lot of attention.  But performance wise, it was the result of months of optimization. Making the largest scale RTS of all time is a big challenge in 2016. ...

Engineers are terrible at marketing.  We really are.  If you’re playing Ashes of the Singularity, you may have noticed we updated the game last week. A minor update with some major changes.  Under the covers, Nitrous got a pretty big boost.  But because it doesn’t add features, it didn’t get a lot of attention.  But performance wise, it was the result of months of optimization. Making the largest scale RTS of all time is a big challenge in 2016. ...

  ESCALATE ON NOVEMBER 3 On November 3, Ashes of the Singularity gets its first expansion pack: Escalation.  It’s a stand-alone expansion which means that if you don’t already have Ashes of the Singularity, you can just buy Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and get everything that’s in the base game too.   TOTAL ANNIHILATION vs. SUPREME COMMANDER There are a lot of reasons we decided to separate the base game from Escalation.  Much of this...

  ESCALATE ON NOVEMBER 3 On November 3, Ashes of the Singularity gets its first expansion pack: Escalation.  It’s a stand-alone expansion which means that if you don’t already have Ashes of the Singularity, you can just buy Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation and get everything that’s in the base game too.   TOTAL ANNIHILATION vs. SUPREME COMMANDER There are a lot of reasons we decided to separate the base game from Escalation.  Much of this...

A very long time ago, like, a million years ago, Stardock made a game called The Corporate Machine.  Like all of Stardock’s games, it was played almost exclusively single player.  But unlike our other games, it was surprisingly popular in multiplayer.  How come? For The Corporate Machine we did the following: Start-Up Watcher: A little system tray app that monitored for available games and let people launch it. 7 multiplayer only keys that people who owned t...

A very long time ago, like, a million years ago, Stardock made a game called The Corporate Machine.  Like all of Stardock’s games, it was played almost exclusively single player.  But unlike our other games, it was surprisingly popular in multiplayer.  How come? For The Corporate Machine we did the following: Start-Up Watcher: A little system tray app that monitored for available games and let people launch it. 7 multiplayer only keys that people who owned t...

Greetings! Sorry I haven't been as active lately. It's been Ashes of the Singularity 24/7 here at Stardock.   So let's do this: ## Escalation ## We had to push the release date of Escalation from November 3 to November 10. This is my fault as I just wasn't comfortable with the balance in the campaign. It was a bit too hard on the default setting and we needed to adjust it. Obviously, you can change the difficulty level (side note: In hin...

Greetings! Sorry I haven't been as active lately. It's been Ashes of the Singularity 24/7 here at Stardock.   So let's do this: ## Escalation ## We had to push the release date of Escalation from November 3 to November 10. This is my fault as I just wasn't comfortable with the balance in the campaign. It was a bit too hard on the default setting and we needed to adjust it. Obviously, you can change the difficulty level (side note: In hin...

For this journal, I’m going to, in story form, give you a guided tour of Escalation.   Background.. Escalation is the first expansion pack to Stardock’s massive-scale RTS, Ashes of the Singularity.  It is sold as a stand-alone expansion with its pricing determined based on whether you already have Ashes of the Singularity or not.  To learn more, visit www.ashesofthesingularity.com .   The year is 2180… The human race is at an inflecti...

For this journal, I’m going to, in story form, give you a guided tour of Escalation.   Background.. Escalation is the first expansion pack to Stardock’s massive-scale RTS, Ashes of the Singularity.  It is sold as a stand-alone expansion with its pricing determined based on whether you already have Ashes of the Singularity or not.  To learn more, visit www.ashesofthesingularity.com .   The year is 2180… The human race is at an inflecti...

  This is going to be long and go into both Escalation, the development of Ashes of the Singularity and discuss the technological singularity. Our story so far… This past Spring Stardock released the real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity.  It’s a game set in the post-technological singularity future in which humans have begun to expand to other planets.  In this future, a single individual is so powerful that they can manage entire armies of...

  This is going to be long and go into both Escalation, the development of Ashes of the Singularity and discuss the technological singularity. Our story so far… This past Spring Stardock released the real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity.  It’s a game set in the post-technological singularity future in which humans have begun to expand to other planets.  In this future, a single individual is so powerful that they can manage entire armies of...

  ## ASHES OF THE SINGULARITY IS EVERYWHERE ## We just came back from the Game Developer's Conference.   It was a great week for the Nitrous engine (the underlying engine used in Ashes of the Singularity). Big News: AMD is bundling Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation with more and more CPUs   The hardware bundling keeps a steady stream of new players coming into our community. Moreover, the AMD Ryzen chips, which are 8-cores, really show off the power of th...

  ## ASHES OF THE SINGULARITY IS EVERYWHERE ## We just came back from the Game Developer's Conference.   It was a great week for the Nitrous engine (the underlying engine used in Ashes of the Singularity). Big News: AMD is bundling Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation with more and more CPUs   The hardware bundling keeps a steady stream of new players coming into our community. Moreover, the AMD Ryzen chips, which are 8-cores, really show off the power of th...

By definition, there can only be one singularity. Ashes of the Singularity and Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation are being merged.  There will be only one game: Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation. Everyone who already has Ashes of the Singularity will also have Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.  To understand why we have decided to do this a little background on the development of Ashes of the Singularity is needed... Once upon a time... Ashes of...