Releases March 17, 2026
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Colony of Gamers Look at Elemental
Ghostbear from Colony of Gamers was in attendance at PAX, and got a walkthrough of Elemental: War of Magic from Stardock’s Paul Boyer. “Exploration is a large part of the game as well, you'll find dungeons, random encounters, treasure. What you really want to find are the elemental shards, once found you'll want to build an outpost and shrine, so that you'll be able to channel the magic it possesses. Once you have multiple elements you can cast spells that combine those ... [read more]
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Big Download Has Impressions of Elemental from PAX
Without a doubt one of the biggest hits for Stardock at this years Penny Arcade Expo was the upcoming Elemental: War of Magic. Previews and impressions are starting to come out, and today we have one from Big Download. “Your character is basically a very powerful magic user who wants to rule the land. There are several ways he can do this. One is by keeping his power inside him and having that power grow so he can use more and more powerful spells. We got an example of that in ... [read more]
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Dev Journal
To say we were pleased with the reaction Elemental got at the Penny Arcade Expo would be an understatement. Despite the game only being in alpha, users seemed to really like the direction we’re heading. Some of the features that really got people going included: Family Trees and Succession . That is, one of the strategies for victory is to quietly arrange marriages so that your family is in the path of succession when sovereigns start getting killed. In Galactic Ci... [read more]
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Elemental BETA: Before summer ends
We’re on the last day of PAX. If you want to get into the beta, you can still do so by pre-ordering it. After the beta goes out, the beta will be closed to new users until next year. Note: The beta will NOT be fun. These are real betas. The game mechanics are only partially implemented and subject to radical change based on player suggestions. [read more]
Dev Journal
I’ll be giving some demos of Elemental this week at PAX. Visit http://pax.stardock.com for an official schedule. The 30 minute presentation will be broken into two parts. The first part will talk about the game itself. What our goals are. Inspirations for the game (Master of Magic, XCom, Civilization, etc.) and what makes Elemental new and different. Here are some in-game screenshots. As pretty as this is, the thing to remember here is that this can be run on a 2 year old laptop (non gamer laptop) and still look like this with 30fps. How this this possible? Well, part 2 will talk more about the technology underneath Elemental that is new but in short: a 3D engine designed from scratch as a PC-only engine for land based strategy games (as opposed to FPS). [read more]
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GamaSutra Interview About Elemental's Strategy-Centric Modding Engine
GamaSutra’s Chris Remo has another interview with Brad Wardell, this time focusing on the modding engine in the upcoming game, Elemental: War of Magic . “Elemental makes use of a level of detail system paired to its zoom feature that swaps out different models and textures as the player moves from examining individual workers at ground level up to viewing whole continents, at which point the perspective blends into a flat 2D "cloth map." That will be available to ... [read more]