Demigod ascension postponed to '09

Sins of a Solar Empire purveyor Stardock now publishing Gas Powered Games' RTS/RPG hybrid for PC in February; open beta penciled in for this summer.

Gas Powered Games roared off the 2008 starting line with one of the first games announced for the year, Demigod. Initially slated to arrive for the PC in the latter part of 2008, Gas Powered Games today said that the title is now slated for a February 2009 launch, and that Sins of a Solar Empire publisher Stardock has signed on as the studio's publishing and distribution partner.

Of gods and men.

Demigod is a real-time strategy game with role-playing game sensibilities often compared to Blizzard Entertainment's popular Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne user-created mod Defense of the Ancients. Set in a far-future fantasy world, players take to the planes of war as epic deities leading legions of underlings as they vie for a seat in the pantheon of supreme beings. While Demigod will emphasize cooperative and competitive gaming, a single-player portion will also be incorporated.

While Demigod's official launch has technically been pushed back, players will actually be able to wade into the fray sooner rather than later. Stardock and Gas Powered Games also said today that the game will benefit from a public beta beginning this summer.

As with other Stardock offerings, the game will be free of on-disc copy protection, and the publisher said that Demigod will receive "many months" of free postrelease feature updates. For more on Gas Powered Games' Demigod, head over to the game's preliminary Web site.

21 Comments

  • illuminatirexx

    Posted Apr 9, 2008 10:31 pm PT

    might be the next big thing if done wright, might be even on the level of sup com, or coh.

  • TranClan

    Posted Apr 8, 2008 11:21 am PT

    @DontEatCream
    You are really retarded. SupCom and Sins aren't turn based. How are RTSs even turnbased in the first place? Also not all good RTSs come from Blizzard you know

  • Fanible

    Posted Apr 8, 2008 8:11 am PT

    @DontEatCream
    Supreme Commander and Sins of Solar Empire are "turn-based games"? Did you even TRY playing them?

  • Kh1ndjal

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 10:43 pm PT

    also looking really forward to this game. no on-disc protection is nice too

  • ShockG707

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 8:03 pm PT

    Looking forward to this big time. This might be the game to bring me back to PC gaming.

  • shade1978x

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 4:27 pm PT

    That game looks.... awesome.

  • athenian29

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 4:09 pm PT

    I dunno. If this turns out to be the mod exactly, save a few more polygons here and there, I'll just get Warcraft III and fire up the downloader.

  • DontEatCream

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:53 pm PT

    Sweet. Finally a game from Stardock and Gas Powered Games that I wanna play. No offence meant for SupCom or Sins - they're both awesome games that deserve mad props, but I'm just not a fan of turn-based games and non-Blizzard (lol) RTS games.

    This game, though... this game will definitely be on my list for next year.

  • jknight5422

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:53 pm PT

    Sounds good. I hope these companies will manage to stay in business for 5-10 years at least.

  • SCPsyWarrior

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:50 pm PT

    After Sins of a Solar Empire, I thought that Stardock only publishes electronically outside the US? Does this mean that this won't be available in disk form for the rest of us? TBH I'd probably download it anyway if it was the same price, but it does seem interesting for GPG to be working with such a small publisher.

  • dragoneye1

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:46 pm PT

    I agree besides when this comes out that will be about the same time i finnish a game on Sins of a solar empire.

  • IKKF

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:27 pm PT

    Great! This is the kind of game that needs time and caring. I'm sure that when it comes out, it will be pretty awesome. I hope this is successful enough to come to consoles like PS3 and Xbox, because my computer will not be able to handle this.

  • deadkingdg

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:25 pm PT

    Demigod is a kickass song. Heard it live last week when Behemoth came to montreal. What? That wasn't what you were talking about?

  • geebus

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:25 pm PT

    awww awww awww

  • beckoflight

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:16 pm PT

    ANywya i will w8 for this game on PC ..... its just imposible to be a failure ! I admire Gas powered games for SUPREME COMMANDER & Dungeon sige but i don't play Supreme Commander its just to slow for my taste ... but Dungeon Sige was great & so wiill Space Siege ! & ofcurse demigod !

  • Archon_basic

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:10 pm PT

    After Supreme Commander I'm hyped for anything by Gas Powered Games. I'm a bit disappointed that Demigod was delayed, but the open beta makes up for it. Stardock is cool too, any publisher that let's you play without the CD gets big points in my book.

  • TylrKakarot1

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 12:39 pm PT

    The game is looking pretty good, I'd really like to try this one out sometime in the future!

  • woolysockofdoom

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 12:30 pm PT

    Definetly going to have to play this beta, I'm curious as to how this game will play.

  • lafigueroa

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 12:24 pm PT

    Awe. I was hopnig Gas Powered Games would keep it self published.
    Well, atleast it's Stardock doing it now.

  • Myst2

    Posted Apr 7, 2008 12:23 pm PT

    im king of dota

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