For the past several months the Planets Nu team has been working toward the goal of making it easier for new players to learn and enjoy the game. We are happy to say that we have completed our first big step toward that goal. We have created a new and powerful computer player for Planets. We have nicknamed our new artificial intelligence "Hiatus".

The fifth Championship match has begun. The 11 races have once again named an elite military commander to lead their forces to win total control and power on behalf of their race and individually to claim the ultimate seat of power and ascend to the throne as the Almighty Commander of the 11 races, his Excellency, The Emperor of the Echo Cluster. Please welcome the proud commanders participating in The Capricorn War!

After 158 turns the Sagittarius War Championship Match has ended. After an incredible diplomatic performance Mentar of the Missing Colonies of Man has won!

After considerable time spent in development and manufacturing our very own community member Thin Lizzy has created a Planets themed card game called Planets Super Trump! It went through a thorough round of testing by a recent gathering of some of the best Planets players in the Nuniverse in Munich this past weekend.

The latest significant round of changes to the Planets Nu system has been released. As always, we've been listening to your feedback and working hard to make Planets Nu a better and stronger community. This release features changes to the leaderboard, new campaign modifications and some changes to the Tenacity system along with numerous bug fixes and technical improvements.

A number of new enhancements have been made including integration with Facebook and new Forum categories and search.

Most people will tell you that tenacity is a great quality to have, especially if you're trying something challenging that takes a while to complete. - Introducing the new Tenacity Rating

YEAR 0029 - Breaking News! A massive intergalactic disturbance of unknown origins has ripped through the Echo Cluster causing subspace communication errors preventing many Commanders from communicating with their ship captains and colony governors.

There has been a lot of discussion on the new activity threads about the new version. Much of it very positive and some of it critical. I'd like to talk a little about the direction of Planets Nu and why we've made some of the recent changes. Particularly the new Activity Feeds.

Blitz Tournament 0029 is here! Hosted by ChallengeSpaceYard it is entitled "Breakthru the 4th dimension" and will feature 32 players.

Can't get enough planets? Some of the top commanders at Planets Nu, including Emperor Spacesquad, Thin Lizzy and EchoClusterVeteran have decided to branch out and create their own Planets Blog with detailed strategies, incredible video tutorials and plenty of fun commentary on the Echo Cluster.

Attention everyone who isn't already playing at http://play.planets.nu. The new website design at http://play.planets.nu will become the main website later this week. In its first stage the home page of http://planets.nu will redirect to play.planets.nu. The old version will continue to be available at http://planets.nu/home. There is a link to the page n the upper left corner of the new design.

It is with great pride that the Galactic Senate would like to unveil the new ship design of Emperor SpaceSquad. His Excellency has put much thought, deliberation and effort into his first act as Emperor, including designing from scratch the appearance of this beautiful ship. Working closely with his Crystalline designers he was able to craft a masterpiece worthy of his name.

The Planets Nu team has been busy working away on a new release of the website. We've taken the lessons learned from releasing play.planets.nu and the things that work from both sites and integrated them into a new platform we believe the community will love and which will help new players learn and enjoy the game as well.

The fourth Championship match has begun. The 11 races, have once again named an elite military commander to lead their forces to win total control and power on behalf of their race and individually to claim the ultimate seat of power and ascend to the throne as the Almighty Commander of the 11 races, his Excellency, The Emperor of the Echo Cluster. Please welcome the proud commanders participating in The Aries War!