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Empire Earth Makes IGN's Best of E3 PC Awards List —05/24/01 Empire Earth was named "Best PC Strategy Game of Show: Runner Up" by IGN PC in their annual Best of E3 list. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3) is the world's largest interactive entertainment trade event, held this year in Los Angeles May 16th through the 19th. Empire Earth Ranks First in PC Gamer Poll —04/30/01 The June 2001 issue of PC Gamer hit the newsstands in North America this weekend and their readers are very interested about Empire Earth! Empire Earth led the pack in "Waiting is the Hardest Part," the monthly feature that tracks the upcoming titles PC Gamer readers are looking forward to the most.
20% Empire Earth To submit your choice for the July issue, email eyewitness@pcgamer.com with "Waiting is the Hardest Part" in the subject line. Gamespot débuts it's Empire Earth Designer Diaries —04/09/01 During the coming months Gamespot will be running a series of articles called "Designer Diaries". These reports will detail several different aspects of Empire Earth. Visit Gamespot.com now to read the first installment. Sierra Titles at Game Developer's Conference —03/26/01 Sierra presented three upcoming titles, Empire Earth, Arcanum, and Throne of Darkness at the annual Game Developer's Conference March 20-24th in San Jose, CA. For photos and a complete rundown of these games, check out Gamespy's GDC coverage. Empire Earth Cartoon Competition Begins —02/12/01 Empire Earth Heaven, one of the most in-depth EE fansites on the web, has begun accepting entries to their Empire Earth Toon Contest. Winners will receive special prizes provided by Stainless Steel Studios, including an Empire Earth calendar signed by Rick Goodman. For the complete contest rules, check out Empire Earth Heaven's Toon Contest page. Empire Earth Website Receives Acclaim —01/30/01 Wow Web Designs, a website dedicated to online design, has added the Empire Earth website to their directory of notable websites. Quarter to Three Previews Empire Earth —01/26/01 In their brief "60 second" preview , Quarter to Three summarizes the ideas behind Empire Earth's design. "I think they'll deliver a tough, eminently playable game that will hold up well to the kind of pounding that a popular RTS game tends to get," predicts Quarter to Three. "This should be one of the year's biggest games." Stainless Steel Studios Enlists Damon Gauthier —01/18/01 Stainless Steel Studios Interactive (SSSI) has announced the addition Damon "Stratus" Gauthier, a fixture of the Starcraft community, to the Empire Earth development team today. Gauthier, a native of Victoria, British Columbia, is taking a semester off from college to help play balance Empire Earth's large multiplayer component. "I'm really enjoying playing Empire Earth," he says, "I like that I don't have to micromanage my economy, so I can concentrate on the battles." Gaulthier comes to the company after working on the Empire Earth Multiplayer Strike Team, a devoted group of RTS gamers. Among his RTS achievements are two second place finishes in the Solid Gold Warcraft League Singles Competition, a first place in the Solid Gold Warcraft League Team Competition, and a fourth place finish in the Brood War world championships on Battle.net. Gaulthier also led Team Canada to victory over Team USA in the Canada vs. USA Starcraft: Brood War Tourney in 1999. Esteemed Scenario Designer Joins Empire Earth Project —01/10/01 Stainless Steel Studios announced today that Gordon "The Old Campaigner" Farrell has joined the Empire Earth Scenario Design Strike Team, the group of highly-talented gamers who are helping design and create Empire Earth's single player campaigns. Gordon is currently designing a campaign centered around one of the greatest empires of the ancient world. Gordon's best known work, the well reviewed "The Persian Wars," is a six-campaign, 27 scenario masterpiece for Age of Empires was included on PC Gamer's "Extended Play 2" compilation CD-ROM. Gordon is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City. Since 1991, he has been on the faculty of New York University, where he teaches the history of the theatre, classical and modern dramatic literature, as well as playwriting and screenwriting. IGNPC confers with SSSI field marshals —12/13/00 Rick Goodman and Stefan Arnold of SSSI recently collaborated on answering IGNPC's Empire Earth questions. Read the interview article to learn the importance of city planning, the fundamentals of managing your economy, the role of heroes, the types and functions of calamities, the freedom you have for custom-building civilizations, how near the game is to completion and much more. The Daily Radar has the Empire on its scope —12/11/00 Daily Radar recently ran several Empire Earth preview screenshots with a brief overview of the game. The subtitle to the article is worth a look all by itself. Get an overview from two perspectives —12/8/00 Terragamer and IGN recently ran major previews of Empire Earth. IGN's included an exhaustive age-by-age analysis and run-down on features like the scenario editor with its multiple camera views and ability to insert triggered events. The article sums up as follows: "Basically, there's a whole lot going into this game. A whole lot."Terragamer presents a more general overview interspersed with screenshots. The reviewer's conclusion? "I cannot preach this game's depth enough.… Empire Earth is like the ultimate strategy gamer's wishlist brought to reality." PC Gamer foresees an upset in the world of RTS strategy —12/4/00 The January 2001 issue of PC Gamer gives a cover mention to Empire Earth and features a three-page preview. Here's the judgement from the magazine's illuminati: From what we've seen of Empire Earth thus far, it may . . . just happen to kick the genre's [expletive deleted] upside-down. Real-time strategy fans everywhere should be in for a real treat when the tweaking and testing is done sometime in late 2001. The Command Center has ways of making a tester talk —12/1/00 The Empire Earth Command Center recently posted a transcript of their interview with newly hired Empire tester "Redline." Read his observations on Empire Earth strategy; his story about catching SSSI's attention, getting hired and moving from San Diego to (brrr) Boston; and his take on the state of gaming competition at Empire Earth headquarters. A commanding new fansite —11/28/00 The gorgeous new Empire Earth Command Center site has been installed with a full battery of Empire Earth resources. These folks have an inside track on the development process, and even list Empire Earth designer Methos as a staffer. Check out their exclusive forum discussions and Stainless Steel interviews.New previews bring back good reports from the Empire —11/17/00 Gamespot recently published two new highly complimentary overviews of Empire Earth: a lengthy examination of the game features and a report from a playtest at a San Francisco press event. Not to be outdone, Gamespy has released an epoch-by-epoch tour of the game, which leads in with the following confident appraisal:You've probably read the stock phrase "change the face of gaming" dozens of times in the past, when over-exuberant game journalists froth excitedly at the keyboard after a free PR lunch and an XL T-shirt. However, in the case of Empire Earth, the phrase is truly justified. New interview with Rick Goodman and Stefan Arnold —11/13/00 SimMayor of Empire Earth Place recently conducted an interview with Rick Goodman and writer/designer Stefan Arnold that addressed game features, production challenges and Stainless Steel's choice of Sierra as a publishing partner. Read the full transcript. The Empire recruiters strike again —11/2/00 Tim "Yogurt" Mitchell, an award-winning author with a master's degree in screenwriting, has just joined the Scenario Design Strike Team on Empire Earth and is now hard at work on a massive 20th Century-era campaign. Fellow designer Steve "Lobby" Ryan recommended him to the team after playing his Age of Empires II scenario "Christmas Morning," which, like his other scenario, "Final Hour," has been downloaded thousands of times from the Age of Kings Heaven Web site. Tim lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Designer joins strike team —10/19/00 The Empire expands into Australia as Stainless Steel Studios recruits Melbourne's Stephen "Lobby" Ryan to the Scenario Design Strike Team. An award-winning Age of Empires scenario creator and respected design critic, Stephen will develop, design and create single-player campaigns for Empire Earth. Steve comments that Empire Earth "looks like the most exciting real-time strategy game ever!"
Watch the rise of Empire —10/18/00 Game-play sequences are intercut with cinematics in this fantastic new Empire Earth trailer (9.9 MB). Welcome to the official Empire Earth site! —9/20/00 Chart the progress of an epic game through these pages. Meet the Stainless Steel Studios staff in the Developer's Lounge, where you'll find notes on the design process, links to interview transcripts and interesting bios. Check the Units section frequently for new characters, buildings and fighting machines. And join the discussion on our message boards. As you'll see, Empire Earth is the pursuit of the ultimate real-time gaming experience and an obsession for its creators. They welcome your input! |
