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My cosplay of Akari Malara from Galactic Civilizations 3 and 4 is almost complete now for the MCM London Comic Con this weekend :). Due to constantly changing plans and unforeseen events IRL, things were done a bit more last minute than usual but I think everything is still coming out pretty well :P. I'll be posting photos of the whole thing and me in it when the convention will be happening :)

Players who design their own ships or create custom factions can now easily share their creations with other Galactic Civilizations III players for free through the Steam Workshop platform. Stardock supported user created content in Galactic Civilizations III back when the game was still in development by holding contests to encourage the community to take advantage of the game’s robust ship and faction customization features. Steam workshop support is the next logical evolution for the Galactic Civilizations III customization community.

“The ability to create custom factions and design your own ships was always core to Galactic Civilizations III. Now players can easily share their creations so that each universe is unique,” said Stardock’s VP of Entertainment Derek Paxton. “There are already over 400 factions and ships available for free download on Steam Workshop, created by Stardock or the Galactic Civilizations III community. You can download and play as Ghosts of Abbadon, who have ruined their home world and are setting out to find another, or download the terrifying Drengin World Eater ship.”

In addition to the free update, Galactic Civilizations III’s Map Pack DLC is also available and includes eight all new maps for players to conquer.

The new maps; Six Pillars, Clash, Snowflake, Core, Joust, Quadrants and Round Table, range in size from gigantic 18 player areas to intimate maps perfectly sized for two-player duels as well as the new Milky Way scenario. Players can also design their own galaxies with the all new map editor which is also included with the DLC. The Map Pack DLC is free for all Galactic Civilizations III Elite Founders and $4.99 for other players.

It is no secret that Brad Wardell is an enemy of social justice. In fact even before GamerGate, we social justice advocates have been attacking Brad Wardell for years thanks to Kotaku and Ben Kuchera. Now while the reporting was wrong (maybe someone should start up some kind of movement against bad journalism) we figured, “why let a thing like the truth get in the way” so we’ve abused him ever since. For years we’ve been labelling Brad Wardell a sexist, misogynist, right-wing, conservative, racist, and all the other negative slurs in the Social Justice lexicon. For some reason instead of making a grovelling apology he does strange things like, defend himself, pick flaws in our logic and laugh at us. So you can see why we SJWs hate this man.

A while ago Brianna Wu met with Brad Wardell and seemed to deal with him as if he was an actual person, one with the ability to civilly communicate and reasonable views. Of course many of the social justice community disagreed with this assessment believing he surely must be an eldritch horror who has entered our world to destroy us. So who is the enigma that is Brad Wardell?

Galactic Civilizations III is Now Available

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