Endless Space is a 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) due out on the 15th of July via Steam. The interface in this game has a fantastic level of polish. Tooltips put most of the information you need at your cursortip, relevant information is logically placed, there are few submenus, controls make navigation easy with both the keyboard and the mouse, and it actually looks good. (Playing 4X games has conditioned me to expect to navigate at least sixteen confusing...
A radio crackles to life somewhere deep in the heart of the S.S. Auralia. A thin, tinny voice wafts through the stale, dusty air of the metal hulk, reverberating off the walls of long corridors barely joined together by Econo-Spacepoxy. The message fades, the radio beeps, and then lights up again, repeating the message in an infinite loop. It is a mayday call that will never be answered, for your foes have been devastated. Every faction now fears your name, for your name is...
Mages are notorious for two things: tampering with things that they shouldn’t (with disastrous consequences), and fighting amongst themselves (also with disastrous consequences). Following the events of Majesty 2, the king leaves the newly united Ardania to conquer new lands. Strife soon befalls the land as relations between the various factions break down, leaving only the Council of Great Mages as the source of order. Only one can rule and bring an end to the...
