There will be a second micro-expansion for Ironclad Games' Sins of a Solar Empire, entitled "Diplomacy." This add-on will feature several changes such as an increase in the number of ambassadorial options for players.

Look to your Psidars, people - Intel reports inbound objectives. We learn straight from Ironclad Games that the highly anticipated and seemingly major patch for top-selling Sins of a Solar Empire is now ready for download via Stardock's official digital distribution service. Want to know what to expect with the first batch of Beta-quality updates in you join? The full article spills it all.

Wake up people! Ironclad Games has finally announced the start of the Beta testing for the major 1.1 patch coming to Sins of a Solar Empire. If you've been keen on the news, you'd know that the Beta was previously announced some time ago, though the session's ETA has been elusive. Today, however, Ironclad has posted up on the Sins of a Solar Empire official forums that the test begins this week, and you'd better call all crew to battlestations while we brief you with the particulars. On to the battle room...err, full story, Commanders.

Or in short, BioWare will be tracing the footsteps of Stardock Systems in their approach to piracy. What took them so long to figure this one out, you ask? Few can really explain, but we doubt we'll be seeing BioWare dumping copy protection in the near future. As long as Electronic Arts has something to say about anti-piracy measures, those Mass Effect woes aren't going away. More on BioWare's grand plan at the full story.

As advocates of rewarding legitimate PC game customers instead of punishing them, Stardock has more than once stirred the gaming populace's apprehensions over PC gaming's pitfalls and it's alleged links to piracy. Today is no exception. The publishers behind the non-copy protected Strategy First's Galactic Civilizations, GalCiv 2, and top seller Sins of a Solar Empire from Ironclad Games, talked down more on blame piracy, and why even Microsoft shouldn't be at fault either.

Sins of a Solar Empire is coming to the UK on June 13, and we've got some extra information you guys might want to know. Learn more about the six exclusive maps that are going to be a part of the European release by heading over to the full article.

From the one publisher that knows one way to battle piracy comes another reason why Sins of a Solar Empire is best enjoyed legitimately: patch version 1.05. Though this release was only made to address the various faults found in the previously applied fixes, it also adds new content that would make any multiplayer or custom game addict smile from ear to ear. Get details of the new maps at the full story.

Stardock and Ironclad Games have released an impressive new teaser for Sins of a Solar Empire that should get people who've yet to hear of this game quite excited for it. If you'd like to see the Vasari and the TEC duke it out, space-opera style, then head on over to the full article.

As projected yesterday by Stardock and Ironclad Games, patch 1.04 of the Sins of a Solar Empire is already out this week. What are the new improvements for the latest build? More details over at the full article.

According to a post over on the Sins of a Solar Empire forums, it seems the devs behind the game are planning to release version 1.04 of the game sometime this week. Learn more about it after the jump!