Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games are very pleased to announce the release of Beta 1 for all Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion pre-order customers! This first beta will allow you to play as the TEC Loyalists or Rebels in either single-player or multiplayer via Ironclad Online or LAN. Also included in this first beta release: Updated graphics engine with self-shadowing ships, up to 16X anisotropic filtering and more. Updated weapon effects. All the new technologies and balance o...

Today Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are releasing minor updates to Sins of a Solar Empire and its micro-expansions - Entrenchment and Trinity/Diplomacy. This patch updates the games to use a new host for the Ironclad Online server which is now hooked into a more powerful backend system for improved performance. Registered customers can update their game via the  GameStop PC Downloads App  (formerly known as Impulse).

Stardock is pleased to announce that Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity is now available for direct sale and download through our updated web store.  Sins: Trinity includes the original Sins of a Solar Empire, plus the Entrenchment and Diplomacy expansions for $19.95 USD. To purchase, please visit our Store .  

Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games are pleased to announce the release of Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy v1.32 today.  This latest update contains a number of bug fixes and balance improvements reported by the community. For full details see:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411251

A v1.31 hot fix for Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy is now available for all registered customers via the Impulse client. This update fixes some gameplay issues that were reported by users.  For a full change log:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/410584

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are happy to announce the release of version 1.3 for Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy today. Now available via the Impulse client for all registered customers, this latest update includes a major gameplay overhaul/rebalance for the Diplomacy micro-expansion content and much more. For full details please visit:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/410219

Sins: Trinity producer for Stardock Entertainment, Brian Clair, concludes his three part developer journal on the upcoming version 1.3 update today.  This final installment touches on some of the changes made to the Envoy cruisers and Pacts. Read the full article at:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/410193

In the final article of our Trinity/Diplomacy v1.3 journal, we're going to take a look at the updated Envoy cruisers and Pact system. Envoys Envoy cruisers in Trinity are largely a “fire-and-forget” affair that provide needed relations boosts over time, along with some beneficial abilities. We intentionally designed Envoys to not require much player management, since Sins isn’t about micro-ing every little detail. However, quite a few of the Envoy abilities w...

Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy producer Brian Clair continues the three part developer journal series today with a look at the changes to the Mission system and how the AI now evaluates them. Read Part 2 at:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/409962  

For Part 2 of our Trinity journal series, we’re going to take a look at the changes to the game’s Mission system. One of the most requested, and in many ways most disappointing, additions in Trinity was the ability to give Missions to other players. As a design decision, we opted to make this system very flexible; unfortunately, this open-endedness meant the AI didn’t know how to evaluate if a mission was worth doing. Given that completing missions was a key requireme...

Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy producer Brian Clair starts a three part developer journal series today to describe the upcoming version 1.3 changes to the game. More than a simple patch, this forthcoming update gives the latest micro-expansion a major redesign. Read Part 1 at:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/409797

Since releasing the version 1.2 update for Sins: Trinity/Diplomacy, a lot of work has gone into a substantial redesign of its gameplay. When we first released Trinity last year, we’d overhauled the diplomatic and relationship systems in the hopes of giving players the ability to be a virtual puppetmaster that would make Machiavelli proud.  Unfortunately, we fell short of that design goal, and while a number of good improvements did pan out, the diplomatic aspects ended up feeling pre...

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are happy to announce the release of Sins of Solar Empire: Trinity/Diplomacy version 1.21 today. Now available via the Impulse client for all registered customers, this new update includes improvements to the game's Alloy multiplayer system and other gameplay tweaks. For a full change log, visit:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/408939

Beta 4 for Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games' 4X RTS, Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity / Diplomacy is now available for testers.  This final beta release includes several new fixes and improvements to bounty, balance and more. For full details, see:  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/404715

Eager RTS gamers can now pre-order the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion!  All pre-order customers will gain access to the Rebellion beta scheduled for later this year (your credit card will be charged at that time). New Sins of a Solar Empire customers can pre-order Rebellion for $39.95.  Existing registered Sins players who have registered Diplomacy or Trinity can upgrade to Rebellion for $29.95. To pre-order, just head to the Store:  https://www.sinsofasolarempi...