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Stardock Entertainment today announced the release of the Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords v1.3 update. The third major update for Stardock’s hit space-faring strategy game, v1.3 again adds a significant number of game-play enhancements and new features to further improve the critically acclaimed title. Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords v1.3 is available for download—as always, free to registered game owners—via Stardock Central or online at GalCiv2.com.

Continuing its commitment to fans, Stardock implemented numerous player-requested features and improvements, including:

- Enhanced computer players

- User-interface improvements

- New balancing to planetary improvements, starbases, economics and more

- Countless tweaks requested by users

A complete list of improvements, enhancements and fixes can be found at http://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx?AID=129704

Stardock is also working on Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar, the game’s first expansion pack, scheduled for release via TotalGaming.net in Fall 2006. Dark Avatar adds plenty of new features, including spies and espionage, customizable opponents, resource-rich asteroid fields and much more. More information about Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar can be found at http://www.galciv2.com/darkavatar.

The official site for Galactic Civilizations II can be found at http://www.galciv2.com.

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