Ashes of the Singularity is like StarCraft on steroids

Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy that uses all the brains in your computer’s processor and graphics chips to render as many as 100,000 moving objects on the screen at the same time. That lets you stage huge land battles for the control of planets in an intergalactic war.

The game from Stardock and Oxide Games is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of Moore’s Law, the prediction made by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore that computing power would continuously improve at a regular rate. The game allows you to command an army of sci-fi forces against a human or computer opponent in real-time action. I had a hands-on preview of the game that confirmed the title is an exercise in the mastery of top-down strategic management.