We're continuing the summer Hegemony tour and heading off to Gen Con next week for "The Best Four Days in Gaming". The boxed version of Hegemony will be on sale again at big discounts so drop by if you're near Indianapolis. We'll be at booth 734 which will hopefully be much easier to find than our booth at Origins.

We're very pleased to announce Hegemony has been selected for the PAX 10! The PAX 10 is a showcase of jury-selected independent video games that takes place during the annual Penny-Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle, Washington from Sept 3rd - 5th. For those who don't know about PAX its a 3-day gaming festival with concerts, competitions, panels and a ton more.

Congrats to the other winners and thanks to all the judges and everyone at Penny-Arcade for supporting indie developers and for putting on one of the best gaming parties in the world!

We have a new beta out which fixes a crash which can happen in one region of Persia, as well as a crash you might experience after capturing a city. Additionally, we've made some minor changes to the GUI.

No matter where you purchased Hegemony, you can download the beta right here. Let us know if you find any bugs!

We actually got back last week but it's taken us a while to get our photos together. Thanks to everyone who managed to find us way in the back of the hall and drop by (whether you were actually interested in Hegemony or were just waiting for a friend to come out of the washroom). We had a lot of fun talking to players, exploring the show and hitting the nightlife in Columbus. Special thanks to our neighbours who put up with our music looping 8 hours a day and especially to the guy who comp'd us a game of Catan!

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We're pleased to announce that German gaming site GamersHall just gave Hegemony their silver award and a rating of 88% in their recent review of the game. For those who speak German you can read the review here or for everyone else here's a link to a rough google translation.

Check out our links page for more reviews of Hegemony as well as a couple of developer interviews we did with Rock, Paper, Shotgun and DRM News.

Update: A couple more reviews just came in: CaptainD's PC Gaming Blog (8/10) and GameShark (B).

Later this week we'll be attending the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio. We'll also be launching the boxed version of Hegemony, which includes a full-colour manual, and we'll be selling it at big discounts! The boxed copy isn't going to be available on our site for a while, so you'll have to come to our booth to get it.

Come see us at Origins. You won't regret it!

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Head over to the Hegemony page or the Download Centre right now to download the latest update to Hegemony. This version is nearly identical to the 1.1.1 beta. The only difference is a couple extra minor bug fixes, and a brand new PDF manual!

Download it now and let us know what you think.

Another week, another release. This time it's mostly just a few stability fixes, so most people won't notice the difference, but we like to play it safe and release a beta first.

As always, customers that purchased the game from our site can download the beta from the Download Centre, but this time I've also put a copy here for people that have purchased the game from other sites.

And of course, let me know if you find any problems. Enjoy!

Version 1.1.0 has now been released, so go ahead and give it a try. As always, you can download it from the Download Centre, or you can just download the demo on the Hegemony page and your serial code will still work.

If you've purchased Hegemony on Impulse, the new version should appear shortly, but if you can't wait, go ahead and download the demo from our site; the serial code you got from Impulse will work perfectly fine with the installer you get here.

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So we've decided to skip version 1.0.1 (which went into beta 1 last week) and jump straight to 1.1.0 (which is going into beta 1 as of right now). I know, I know, there's so many ones and zeroes going around lately that you'd think we're talking in binary.

If you've already purchased Hegemony, the 1.1 beta is now available from the Download Centre. The big new feature is configurable difficulty, in case you've been finding Hegemony too stressful or not challenging enough. We've also fixed a number of problems with the objectives, so if there's any quests you've had trouble completing, this version should fix it.

Try it out and let us know what you think, especially if you encounter any problems.