Stardock and Gas Powered Games announced today that they have reached a publishing agreement for Gas Powered Games" upcoming PC game, Demigod.
Demigod is a team-based action game with RTS and RPG elements. Players take control of a massive Demigod with the goal of annihilating their opponent"s position in a given arena while preventing the opponent"s Demigod from doing the same to them. Although the game supports superb one-on-one duels, the title will truly shine in team play either with other human-controlled Demigods or with ones controlled by a sophisticated computer AI. As the game progresses, the player"s Demigod will acquire items, attributes and experience.
To fully support a public beta that will launch this summer, the launch date for Demigod has been moved to February 2009. This will give the development team sufficient time to incorporate feedback from the beta players while polishing the game. Like Stardock"s other games, Demigod will be released without any on-disc copy protection and has been budgeted to receive many months of free post-release feature updates.