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One of the more well known indie game developers, Arcen Games, has put out the word on its web site that it is currently dealing with some financial issues. In a post today on the company's official web site, company founder Chris Park announced that "if sales don't pick up then we run out of money sometime in November."

What happened? Park says sales of its space strategy game AI War: Fleet Command and its expansion pack have dropped down well below expectations over the summer months. Also the company's most recent game, the puzzle title Tidalis, "has sold only a few thousand copies so far, despite largely euphoric reviews and player response." according to Park. The company currently plans to re-launch AI War using the Unity 3D engine in October along with the previously announced AI War: Children of Neinzul expansion pack. Park says he still plans to donate the proceeds of the expansion pack to the Child's Play charity.

[Via Rock Paper Shotgun]

Download the AI War: Fleet Command Demo
Download Tidalis Demo (420 MB)
Download Tidalis Mac Demo (432 MB)

One of the best indie strategy games released in 2009 was the space-based game AI War from developer Arcen Games. Now the game has an expansion pack. Announced a few months ago, The Zenith Remnant is now available to purchase and download via the Arcen Games expansion pack. It's also available via the Steam and Impulse download services.

Priced at $9.95 the expansion adds over 120 new ships to the game. That includes 14 new ship classes and seven of the massive new Golem ships (you can see an example in the screenshot above). There are also new map types, new AI types and beheviors and more. If you own AI War you can download The Zenith Remnant and play it for a free trial period. Just so long as you don't download Poptropica instead.

The original AI War demo can be downloaded here or played via mygameIQ.

Download the AI War: Fleet Command Demo

Developer Arcen Games recently released an all new 2.0 version of their sci-fi RTS game AI War. The game found a new audience thanks to its release via download services like Steam and Direct2Drive. Now it looks like the developer is using the game's higher profile to its atvantage as it announced AI War's first expansion pack.

Ttitled The Zenith Remnant, the game's official web site is taking pre-orders for the expansion for $12.95 and is letting anyone download their alpha and beta versions of the expansion right now for free. Only pre-orders will get access to the full and final version of the expansion which will have 80 to 100 new ships, four new map types and lots more. The final version will be released in December 2009 or January 2010.

[Via Blue's News]