When Frontier kickstarted Elite: Dangerous, they promised continued development that would greatly expand the universe with planetary exploration, walking in ships and stations, and other...
Games and Symbols of Hate
In June, Apple briefly removed nearly all games that featured the Confederate Battle Flag from the App Store. Controversy ensued...
Floating Follies: Rule The Waves AAR Part 1
Rule the Waves is a game about building, maintaining, and commanding a great navy in the age of the dreadnought. In peacetime...
Rising Thunder Impressions: Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
The biggest barrier in fighting games is execution. If you intend to enjoy fighting games at a level beyond mashing your hands on...
Elite: Dangerous: Job Placement In Space
You’ve finished Elite: Dangerous‘ tutorial, learned how to fly the average spaceship, and dropped into the cockpit of your very own loaner Sidewinder. It may not look like much...
EVE Sovereignty At The Brink
Two years into its second decade, EVE Online is in serious trouble. This is a game that, at its best, is about politics – influence, war, territory, diplomacy, tribal gangs flinging...
CCP Announces ‘Gunjack’
On August 3rd CCP Games, developers of EVE Online, blasted out a press release, unveiled a trailer, and activated social media accounts for the rollout of a new game: Gunjack...
Point/Counterpoint: The Legacy of MMOs
MMOs are destined to die. It’s a fact of life that we as MMO players don’t often like to acknowledge, but at some point every company will either a) crash and burn and take the servers...
Screenshot Saturday: Wide Open Spaces
Videogames are confusing, beautiful, complicated messes, and the best way to convey that is through screenshots, whether they are beautiful, informative, or goofy. Each Saturday we bring...
Welcome!
Stellar Relic is the result of three people who liked working with each other at another outlet being slowly (but inexorably) let go for ‘business reasons’ – pesky things...