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Elemental: War of Magic Now Available!
Independent developer and publisher Stardock released the much-awaited PC fantasy strategy title Elemental: War of Magic today. Elemental: War of Magic opens a world of magic and ancient lore as players begin the game as one of the few beings in the world still able to channel power from shards of magic - a series of mystical artifacts left over from a great cataclysm. You must decide how much of your power to imbue into your heroes as you build cities, explore dungeons, learn spells ... [read more]
News
Several months ago we started the Elemental Army as a way to reward Elemental fans for their participation on forums, social networks, etc. by helping spread the word about Elemental: War of Magic . As today is the release of Elemental, we can close this portion of the Elemental Army and announce the winners! First, we do want to thank everyone for their participation. The amount of submissions was impressive, and the amount of hours people put into creating videos, going ou... [read more]
Dev Journal
AUGUST 24th, 2010. This is a day that the team has been waiting for for three years! As some of you know, some retailers broke the street date and to make sure our beta testers and pre-order customers didn’t get the short end of the stick, we released an interim build of Elemental (internally called Gold Edition++). It turns out that this was a blessing in disguise because we have gotten a tremendous amount of useful feedback from those of you who got the game before rel... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental: Interim PRE-day 0 update
Tomorrow marks the official release of Elemental. We will have a “day 0” update available as well. But for those who are interested in trying out an interim version, we’re gearing up to release one tonight. Here is what was implemented in the past 12 hours: Lots of new seed maps (particularly for medium and large) Enemy Unit caching modified so that they are released from the game after death (this should address the “game gets slower over time” issue some have rep... [read more]
Dev Journal
Elemental is here! Want some tips from the Stardock gang? We’re putting together a video tutorial. Part 1: Setting up your first game http://www.screencast.com/t/ZWQyMTcwO Part 2: You’re in the world http://www.screencast.com/t/MmM3ODVlNDU Part 3: Building up http://www.screencast.com/t/MWQzYzI4M Part 4: Questing http://www.screencast.com/t/MTkwZGJkOWEt Part 5: Plotting http://ww... [read more]
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Elemental: Preparing for Release Day!
Greetings! We’re hoping those of you who got the early edition of the game are having a good time with it. We’re on the chat channel (you can get to it in game by hitting Shift-Tab). Some modders have already submitted some really cool maps which you can get to by hitting Shift-Tab and clicking on Mods. We have a pretty big list of new things for the day 0 version over what was in the “gold” version that some people got and the pre-day 0 that we put out last night for those ... [read more]
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Come hang out with us while you wait
Waiting to play Elemental? Come visit and hang out with us while they upload it to the servers around the world for you to download. [read more]