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Stellaris Gets Asimov Content Update

Paradox Interactive, a publisher and developer that’s always working on its personal space, today released the new “Asimov” update for Stellaris, the sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studio. Available now for players on Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs, the update comes with changes to the game’s border systems, new systems for diplomatic relations, new graphical enhancements to battle, and a whole lot more.

The Asimov update changes several in-game systems, including diplomacy, warfare, and empire expansion. The changes include:

• Access through empires’ borders now open until closed by diplomatic actions.
• Colonizing planets and building outposts now costs influence.
• Embassies replaced by building long-term relationships with other empires via trustworthy actions.
• Diplomacy interface includes additional actions and options – and diplomatic incidents.
• New possible goals for warfare.
• Battles are clearer and have improved appearances.
• New ways to view maps with a variety of data shown.
• New nomadic fleets and varied population factions.

For more information about Stellaris, visit http://www.stellarisgame.com/

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John Breeden II

John has spent his journalism career covering just about everything, from small-town meetings and crime scenes to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Congress. He got his start writing about games and technology with a computer column called On the Chip Side, which grew to more than 1 million in circulation and ran in newspapers across several states. Today, John is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek and many other publications, and he writes a regular technology and government column for Nextgov/FCW and hosts security and educational webinars for FedInsider. He is also the founder of the Tech Writers Bureau and the chief editor of GameIndustry.com. He still loves disappearing into games, whether that means crawling through Baldur’s Gate dungeons deep into the night or planning one more big offensive in the latest wargame.