Mythor

Mythos is being developed by "Flagship Seattle". I'm not sure any lay offs would necessarily affect them.

Still, I guess that means HGL is virtually done for now. Shame. :(

That should be "As I understand it"

As in understand it the previous games haven't done so well due to control issues. If you think about all the different strikes that are allowed while standing, you realise that a couple of face buttons aren't going to cut it. And then you've got to do a control scheme for the ground game too?
I think it's great that the UFC are still trying, but I'd definitely want a demo before paying any money for this. They need to convince people that this will actually *work*.

How old was Randy Couture when he took Tim Sylvia apart, Biggen? 43? And when he TKO'd Gonzaga? 44? But Gracie gets a pass due to his age? Bull.
Royce Gracie got schooled by Hughes, just like he in his prime would have been taught a lesson by the top ranked UFC fighters of today. He was good for his time but the sport has progressed a hell of a long way since then. And the outcome of the Hughes match proves it.

It also has Galactic Civilizations 2, plus the expansions. Not exactly "third tier other than these three titles". ;)

Of course Stardock aren't actually "throwing their hat in the ring" here, either, as they've been doing digital distribution longer than most. It's just Impulse that is new. They previously ran their gaming stuff through Stardock Central, alongside their other products like WindowBlinds, etc.

Steam can only force Impulse to get "lost in the mist" by getting all the games Impulse has available onto Steam. If the only place you can buy a digital copy of a certain game is Impulse, people will go there.
Impulse can also avoid getting lost in the mist by offering things Steam can't or won't - WindowBlinds, for example...

Came to say the exact same thing.
This game has been available worldwide for months and months direct from Stardock. $44.95 for the direct download only version, which is around £23, so it's cheaper too. For a couple of dollars more you can even get yourself the boxed copy, if you want.

Forget Sins of a Solar Empire 2, buy it direct from Stardock and support companies that don't burden everyone with onerous DRM schemes. If Sins continues to sell well via Stardock - it has so far - then an expansion or sequel is more likely and it will more likely not have copy protection again so it's a win all round.

Maybe wait until you've played it a bit more than two weeks before passing judgement on the "emo drama".

I would suggest that you should have been around for the leadup to why there was "emo drama" but absent a time machine, that may prove difficult. :)
Suffice it to say, the "whiners" are completely justified in their complaints. It's great that you're not experiencing any troubles, but that doesn't mean those who have are wrong to complain.

GI.biz did not dig this up, their article was posted yesterday and uses the same Google cache link Flagshipped.com posted a little under a week ago.

And yes, they're touting how well it did in Korea. What they're not telling you is that it only did well at launch in Korea and has since sunk like a rock.

Flagship's reply to the situation is full of spin and disinformation.

Sounds just like Army of Two, only goofier and with 50 cent and G-Unit instead of Rios and Salem?

I'm in. Army of Two was a lot of fun.

"the debaucherous adventures of Niko Bellic were deemed inappropriate by the somewhat hipper Kiwi chapter of the OFLC"

No they weren't. Rockstar voluntarily censored the game before the OFLC and the Kiwis got their hands on it for rating purposes. Australian and New Zealand authorities were never even given a chance to decide whether the original content of the game was okay.
Why Rockstar's pre-emptive self-censorship isn't making more news is beyond me.

No, wait, it's not beyond me. It's because it's not happening in America and thus it's not happening at all, for all intents and purposes...