Hegemony Gold is on sale all week at 50% off, and all you have to do is enter the coupon code 'SHOWME' during checkout.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg! We're doing this sale along with 34 other indie games, all from 35% to 75% off! Check them all out at the Show Me The Sales 100% indie mega sale!

Update: I did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit with the other indies in this sale. Click here for the questions and answers!.

If you've been waiting for an excuse to buy Hegemony Gold, wait no longer; Steam currently has Hegemony Gold on sale for only $4.99. That's 75% off!

This is part of Steam's huge Indie Spring Sale in celebration of the Independent Game Festival, so there's lots of other great stuff in there too. Check it out!

About a month ago, a couple of nice guys from the Electric Playground team dropped by for a quick tour of the office and a sneak preview of Hegemony Rome. Part I of that visit aired on G4 TV Canada tonight and will probably air a few more times again tomorrow if you missed it. For those who don't get that channel, you can also watch the whole episode online at EPDaily.tv or skip straight to our segment here.

While I seemed to have inadvertently hogged the spotlight in this section, Jim, Rick, Philippe and Britt gave some great interviews as well, but unfortunately you'll have to wait to hear what they've got to say until Part II which should air sometime closer to release of the game.

Well I'm about to head home for my Christmas vacation, but before I go, have a sketch of a card from everyone here at Longbow Games.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

We just found out about a fascinating pair of articles by game designer and blogger Josh Raab about how he finds Hegemony facilitates "organic warfare" better than anything else on the market. To use his words:

"... Hegemony creates an experience like none other. When I studied ancient history in college, I read about all these things: the impact of geography, the importance of logistics, the convenience of naval transport, the difficulty of siege. But I didn’t know exactly how they worked. Hegemony brings them to life in a way that makes it all click better than any other strategy game I’ve played."

Read the whole articles here: Part 1 and Part 2.

Hegemony Gold is going to be available in the new IndieFort bundle starting next week!

Why are we telling you about it early? Well, this is an interesting bundle: it's currently $4 for four games, but if you buy the bundle this week, then when next week's bundle comes out, you get four new games for only $3, and if you buy that one, the next week you can get four games for $2. Buy all five and the last one is free!

In other words, next week you can get Hegemony and three other games for only $4, but if you act now, you can get Hegemony and nineteen other games for only $10! But remember, you don't get the cheaper price unless you've bought one of the earlier bundles.

And to top it all off, a portion of the proceeds goes to the Help Daniel charity.

Incidentally, the whole thing finishes up on my birthday, and seeing everybody support indie developers and a great charity would be a wonderful birthday present :)

Below is a full list of games in the bundles. I've included YouTube links to each game, and I've also created a YouTube Playlist if you'd like to see them all.

Week 1, November 23-29, Fueling Up Bundle:
* Genetrive 2 (YouTube)
* Space Pirates and Zombies (YouTube)
* Aeon Command (YouTube)
* Waveform (YouTube)

Week 2, November 30-December 6, Space Suit Bundle:
* Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece (YouTube)
* Caster (YouTube)
* Zombies (YouTube)
* Strategic War in Europe (YouTube)

Week 3, December 7-13, Oxygen Bundle
* Bridge It (YouTube)
* Alien Hallway (YouTube)
* Eryi's Action (YouTube)
* Terrorhedron (YouTube)

Week 4, December 14-20, Ignition Bundle
* Syder Action (YouTube)
* Orczz (YouTube)
* Alien Shooter 2: Conscription (YouTube)
* Achron (YouTube)

Week 5, December 21-27, Liftoff Bundle
* War of the Human Tanks (YouTube)
* Zafehouse: Diaries (YouTube)
* Zombie Shooter 2 (YouTube)
* Will Fight For Food (YouTube)

I've you've been waiting for the official build of Hegemony Gold 1.5.7, it's here! As always, the easiest way to upgrade is to simply download the demo and install it over your existing copy, but you can also download it from the Download Centre. If you purchased your game elsewhere, you can use the same process, or you can wait for your distributor of choice to update their copy.

If you've been following the betas, you'll know this is a relatively minor update, except for a fix to a bug which caused the seasons to stop turning if you've played the same campaign for a couple hundred hours. If you're one of our uber-fans, this update is for you!

Keep reading for the full release notes. Continued →

Keep reading for more pics! Continued →

After the first 1.5.7 beta, there were some complaints that the AI was being too competitive with each other regarding sheep, so we've released a new beta with all the bug fixes in 1.5.7 beta 1, with a little tweak to the way AI treats sheep. Hopefully this will alleviate issues some players have been experiencing.

The new beta can be found here. All you need to do is install it over your existing copy, and you should get the latest updates. Let us know if you have any trouble.

We're releasing a new patch for Hegemony Gold today that fixes a handful of rare bugs. The most important bug fix in this release fixes a problem on high-end computers where the seasons would no longer change when you've been playing one campaign for over 100 hours, but read the whole post for the full change log.

As always, we're releasing it as a beta first just to be safe, but our patch betas tend to be pretty safe to install. To get this version, just download it here and install it over your existing copy. If you have any feedback, leave it in this news thread, or email me or Rob directly.

In other news, Socros and FRGO from the website Jeux-Stratégie.com have been spending the last three and a half months translating Hegemony Gold into French. Hegemony has over 100 thousand words, so this is quite the undertaking. If you speak French and you would like to get their translation, head over to the Jeux-Stratégie forum post and follow the instructions.

Keep reading for the 1.5.7 beta 1 change log. Continued →