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This developer diary for the new standalone Elemental expansion may interest those that were put off by the rather rough state of Stardock's latest release. Detailing the changes being made in Fallen Enchantress, it goes in-depth with the new tactical combat system and shows off the new massive boss-like elemental lords. Of note is that combat is now dictated by initiative, rather than turns per side. The elemental lord Morian, Ruin of Summer is also present, and he lays the beat down on some poor foot soldiers.

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Developer Stardock has had a rocky 2010 thanks to the issues that surrounded the launch of its fantasy turn-based strategy game Elemental War of Magic. However in a new post this week, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell revealed the company's tentative future plans for development of its internal game studios. All of Stardock's future games will be based on its in-house Kumquat game engine.

As previously announced Stardock will continue to update Elemental while also making new stand alone games such as Elemental Fallen Enchantress and a third unnamed game. The roadmap also shows that Stardock plans to make an RPG game based on the Elemental universe at some point. Wardell states, "This year we will begin to reconstitute this team as we bring in a lead studio developer and some senior developers to help ensure that we don't have another War of Magic episode." The long-in-development MMORTS game Society is still in the works and there are other unnamed games that are scheduled for release in 2013 and 2014 that are not connected to the Elemental franchise.

Finally there's "Mod Layer" which Wardell states will be a way for anyone to make games using its Kumquat engine. He says, "The idea is to create a piece of middleware between Kumquat and future games that would allow people to make games using mostly Python." He plans to take his long mentioned sabbatical from Stardock to develop "Mod Layer and says that when its done" ... modders can easily create a wide assortment of games that are either 2D or 3D and potentially portable to (at the very least) Xbox Live Arcade and Windows Phone."

By the way this roadmap does not include third party games that Stardock might or might not publish. Wardell states, " ... this doesn't count future titles from our partner Ironclad who developed Sins of a Solar Empire nor does it address next steps in the Demigod franchise."

Earlier this week developer Stardock revealed plans for Elemental Fallen Enchantress, the first expansion pack for its turn based -strategy game Elemental War of Magic. Now more info on the expansion has been revealed by Stardock CEO Brad Wardell on the game's official message boards,

Elemental Fallen Enchantress will be a stand alone expansion and won't require the original game to be played, according to Wardell. He states that " .. it frees the team to make radical changes to the basics of the game while allowing War of Magic to still be updated on its own source tree." If you bought War of Magic before December 31 you get Fallen Enchantress for free.

Developer Stardock has promised that it would be releasing commercial expansion packs for its turn-based strategy game Elemental: War of Magic. Today it revealed the first details behind the first expansion pack, titled Elemental Fallen Enchantress. The expansion pack will be free for anyone who bought the original game before the end of 2010.

The expansion pack will include new areas to Elemental's fantasy world that can't be settled until your characters deal with the threats inside them. An example is the "Bhinadmi Fissure, a massive chasm that spawns demons and earth elementals." Look for more spells and equipment to be added in the expansion pack. The expansion will also allow players to bring in and equip new champions, each of which have different ways of using magic. The expansion pack is due out in the second quarter of 2011. There's no word on what the price of the expansion pack will be for players who have yet to purchase Elemental.