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Galactic Civilizations III Dev Journal: Ascension
Galactic Ascension Status is new in v3.8 for GalCiv III. Our VP of Entertainment, Derek Paxton, decided to sit down and have some fun with it last week - check it out here! What's YOUR favorite victory strategy? https:/…
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Galactic Civilizations III v3.8 Ascension Update Available Today!
Galactic Civilizations III v3.8 Update Brings Major UI Changes Set in the 23rd century, Galactic Civilizations III is a 4X space strategy game where humans and aliens compete against each other for domination of the gal…
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Aliens of Summer
We're putting the touches on v3.8. From here on out, a lot of our effort is going to be on features that improve the game experience, polish and usability. They're not sexy features but they're much needed imo. Starting…
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Galactic Civilizations III v3.7 Anniversary Update Available Today!
Galactic Civilizations III v3.7 Anniversary Update Focuses Exclusively on Fan Requests For a limited time, save 85% on Galactic Civilizations III and 70% on the Gold Edition For the game's 4th anniversary, we've focused…
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Quality of Life improvements for GalCiv
We are putting the final touches on Galactic Civilizations III v3.7. When we first announced the Retribution expansion pack (which if you don't have, we highly recommend you get) there were fans who really wanted to emp…
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Massive v3.6 Community Update for Galactic Civilizations III is Here!
Improved custom ship mod compatibility, commonwealth world adjustments, and more! Galactic Civilizations III v3.6 Community Update improves custom ship mod compatibility, adjusts commonwealth worlds, and more We're laun…
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The Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution Expansion is Now Available!
The expansion includes Hypergates, Precursor Artifacts, New Civilizations, and more. Check out the release trailer here: Save 10%* on Retribution and 70%** on the Base Game! Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution adds…
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Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution gets release date
Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution arrives on February 21 Also check out the world premiere trailer for Galactic Civilizations III’s biggest expansion yet. The expansion to the massive space strategy game adds new…
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Galactic Civilizations III: February Preview
Greetings! We are working on the next free update to Galactic Civilizations III right now. Mostly it's quality of life improvements as recommended by players. A few highlights include a repeat-button for planetary proje…
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NEW EXPANSION for Galactic Civilizations III ANNOUNCED: Galactic Civilizations III: Retribution
Hypergates, Artifacts, new campaigns and new civilizations arrive this Winter. What started as a crusade has become a war of retribution. Stardock's award-winning space strategy game, Galactic Civilizations III is about…
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v3.2 for Galactic Civilizations III is now available!
Adjustments to personality traits for factions and AI decisions are among improvements Galactic Civilizations III v3.2 takes faction personality traits into account, improves game AI, and more We're launching a version…
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Galactic Civilizations III - Heroes of Star Control: Origins DLC is now available!
Plays as some of your favorite Star Control: Origins races with new traits, leaders, music and more New Alien Civilizations bring their own ship styles, unique race traits, diplomatic quirks, AI personalities, and more!…
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New racial trait and quality of life improvements arrive in Galactic Civilizations III v3.05
Happy Fall, everyone! The Galactic Civilizations III team has been working on some updates and adjustments to the core edition that they’re excited to share with you… in the form of a poem. You can thank Kael for this o…
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Happy Anniversary, Galactic Civilizations III!
Happy Anniversary, Galactic Civilizations III! The story of Galactic Civilizations has been around for 24 years - can you believe that? Yeah, neither can we. Let's reflect! 24 YEARS AGO GalCiv - the first commercial gam…
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Ruling the Galaxy Takes a Massive Leap Forward with Galactic Civilizations III: Intrigue and New v3.0
Galactic Politics and Government Have Arrived in Galactic Civilizations III: Intrigue https://youtu.be/2YvGrQjR0NE Galactic Civilizations III is one of the largest strategy sandboxes ever made. Start with a single world…
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Intrigue Journal #5: Tapestry of the machine
Uh, captain? We have an incoming transmission from the Yor. They say they want to explain to us why they're superior to humans and other "fleshy" beings. Should I patch them through? https://www.stardock.com/games/artic…
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