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Stardock and Gas Powered Games have announced they have reached a publishing agreement for Gas Powered Games’ upcoming PC game, Demigod.
“Forging our new partnership with Stardock is a big deal for all of us at GPG, and we couldn’t be more excited about it,” said Chris Taylor, founder and CEO of Gas Powered Games. “Not only do we have a proven retail publisher, but we get to partner with a pioneer in the digital distribution space a company that totally understands what kind of experience our customer wants and the quality game they demand. The whole proposition is truly refreshing.”
Demigod is described as a team-based action game with a blend of RTS and RPG elements. Players will take control of a massive Demigod with the goal of annihilating their opponent’s position in an arena, all the time preventing the opponent’s Demigod from delivering the same destruction to them.
Gas Powered Games says the game will be best played in team play, either with other human-controlled Demigods or with sophisticated AI controlled Demigods.
The publishing deal was somewhat dampened by news that the game will no longer ship in 2008, instead being pushed back to a February 2009 release. This extra time is said to give the development team sufficient time to make full use of the public beta test set to begin this summer.
It has also been confirmed that the game will be released without any on-disc copy protection and will receive many months of free post-release feature updates.
