Announcement History

General Information —> Planets.nu Announcement History

This is a list of the significant release announcements in the history of Planets.nu.

December 16, 2024 – Summary of 2025 Standard Game Changes
January 16, 2023 – Rule Changes For 2023
January 15, 2022 – Rule Changes For 2022
January 20, 2021 – New Campaign Features Active
December 15, 2020 – Summary of new standard features
September 15, 2020 – Introducing Accelerated Fight or Fail
March 1, 2020 – Planets League 2020!
February 25, 2020 – Introducing Random Slot Games
January 19, 2020 – Chained Intercept Has Now Been Released
December 14, 2019 – Updates and Rule Changes - December
November 11, 2019 – PlanetsCon LIVE 2019 Wrap-Up
August 12, 2019 – Native auto-taxing settings now available
June 27, 2019 – Recent Interface Updates
May 3, 2019 – On Kin, priorities, and the future..
May 2, 2019 – KIN - A new currency for Planets
April 14, 2019 – Major Changes to the Campaign Reward System
February 15, 2019 – Android App Updated - Beginner games now replace Academy
November 29, 2018 – Megacredits or Ammo may now be transferred directly to foreign ships/planets
November 3, 2018 – How to use the new version (For experienced players!)
October 3, 2018 – New version of the Planets.nu client released
August 30, 2018 – Planets Con Overview - State of the Nuniverse
June 24, 2018 – Planets Limit Ships Game Settings Available
March 25, 2018 – Introducing Emperor Smn's New Ship
October 2, 2017 – New settings for limiting share intel and safe passage agreements (Activityfeed thread)
August 23, 2017 – Software Changes Announced at PlanetsCon 2017
May 21, 2017 – Reports Of Wormholes Appearing In The Echo Cluster
April 27, 2017 – VCRs now shared across Share Intel relations (Activityfeed thread)
April 25, 2017 – Horwasp Alpha 2 Release
April 22, 2017 – Announcing Alpha Release Of Our New Level Editor
March 29, 2017 – Emperor Darth Balls, Your Chariot Awaits!
March 21, 2017 – Wandering Tribes Public Games Now Available
March 20, 2017 – Community Mentoring of MvM games (Activityfeed thread)
December 30, 2016 – New Features For The New Year
December 28, 2016 – Wandering Tribes, Crazy Intermix, Color Minefields by Player - all now available (Activityfeed thread)
December 18, 2016 – Several new game setup options and client tools available (Activityfeed thread)
December 11, 2016 – New Ignore Post feature available for testing and feedback (Activityfeed thread)
December 9, 2016 – New convenience setting: 'Auto-Sell Supplies to Build Ships' available for testing (Activityfeed thread)
September 27, 2016 – Horwasp Alpha Update!
July 24, 2016 – Horwasp Battle Order
July 10, 2016 – Planets Nu - Roadmap
July 10, 2016 – A plague upon our galaxy!
June 9, 2016 – Emperor Joesnoffy's new ship has arrived!
May 3, 2016 – New Tools
March 28,2016 – Recent changes to MvM games (Activityfeed thread)
January 27, 2016 – Coming Changes to the Leaderboard
January 20, 2016 – New - Awards!
December 19, 2015 – Accelerated Start is coming to town! (Activityfeed thread)
December 17, 2015 – End of Game Achievement reduced for small games (Activityfeed thread)
September 2, 2015 – Super Spy Advanced and Starbase Fighter Transfer added to blitz and custom games (Activityfeed thread)
May 22, 2015 – Campaign Mode Changes - Birds, EE, Lizards
April 11, 2015 – Planets goes Mobile!
April 4, 2015 – Tenacity Changes (Activityfeed thread)
March 24, 2015 – One Big (Beefy) Step for Planets Nu
December 31, 2014 – Planets Nu Documentation - Volunteers Needed!
December 27, 2014 – Translating Planets - Volunteers Needed!
December 22, 2014 – Holiday Wishlist - Stealth and Sphere!
December 20, 2014 – New Game Interest Concept
September 01, 2014 – Emperor Emork's new Ship - The Godzilla!
September 05, 2014 – New Game Format: Mentor vs. Midshipmen
August 30, 2014 – The New Production Queue - Plus Planets Con Updates
May 27, 2014 – Holiday Mode Changes and bug fix
May 17, 2014 – New Release - Campaign mode upgrades, improved performance
February 11, 2014 – Attention Developers - New Load All API
February 02, 2014 – New - Mentors and Midshipman games!
January 27, 2014 – New! Single Player Levels!
December 23, 2013 – Emperor Mentar's New Ship
December 13, 2013 – Introducing "Hiatus" a new and Powerful Computer Player
October 13, 2013 – Mercenaries, Chameleon Devices, Forgivenacity and More!
July 18, 2013 – Tenacity - The True Measure of a Commander
May 12, 2013 – Planets Nu Roadmap

NOTE: Announcements prior to this were lost in the Server Replacement of October 2025. They're still listed here for reference, but none of the links work.

April 29, 2013 – The website redesign will be the new home page this week
April 25, 2013 – Emperor SpaceSquad's New Ship
April 23, 2013 – Website Redesign - Call for Testers
January 27, 2013 – The Emperor's new "Ship"
January 10, 2013 – For all User Script Developers
December 22, 2012 – 20 Questions on the Campaign Games
November 21, 2012 – Planets Nu - New Web App Release (play.planets.nu round 2)
September 14, 2012 – Planets Nu "Campaign Mode" games are now Available for Joining (beta)
May 15, 2012 – Thank you for the Education
May 14, 2012 – How to use the new ~~Website~~ Application
May 11, 2012 – The Future of Planets Nu is Here
February 09, 2012 – Introducing the "Giant Melee" game format
December 21, 2011 – Attention all Hackers! The first Planets Nu API has arrived.
December 19, 2011 – Happy Holiday Features
November 08, 2011 – The Strategic Information Sharing Act + Holiday Mode
October 07, 2011 – New Public User Feedback System
September 11, 2011 – Tweaks to the Default Config
August 20, 2011 – Stellar Cartography - An all Nu Addon
July 29, 2011 – Updated minefield graphics and colors
July 19, 2011 – Joining Games - Required Rank and Team Games
July 12, 2011 – New: Explore Map Add-on
June 19, 2011 – Planet based win conditions, recap and tweaking
June 06, 2011 – New Diplomacy Options
June 02, 2011 – Two first place replacements up for grabs
May 22, 2011 – Cloak Fuel Burn - Critical Change for Cloaking Races
May 16, 2011 – Host Time Shuffle
May 10, 2011 – Search for Planet and Ship
May 08, 2011 – Color Settings
April 15, 2011 – The "Ready" Checkbox has arrived
April 08, 2011 – Auto adjust taxes to maintain happiness levels
April 04, 2011 – Be your own host - Private games are here
March 05, 2011 – Military Score Bug
March 02, 2011 – New Default Win Conditions
February 27, 2011 – Attention Cyborg: Improved Warp Chunnelling
February 10, 2011 – Introducing "Blitz" Games (Alpha)
February 08, 2011 – Fuel calculation now includes alchemy, build torps and fighters
February 04, 2011 – Introducing the Time Machine
January 31, 2011 – Default Configuration
January 20, 2011 – Basic Training Scenario and Custom Maps
January 11, 2011 – New and Improved Map - But not for IE 7 or 8
January 09, 2011 – The Leader board has Arrived
January 08, 2011 – The Grand Theatre
December 31, 2010 – Find Minerals Map Tools
November 16, 2010 – More Hot Keys added
November 11, 2010 – VGA Planets Nu now in Beta... come and play!
November 08, 2010 – Diplomacy, Messaging, Jettison
November 04, 2010 – First multiplayer alpha games posted!
October 26, 2010 – Let Slip the Dogs of War - AR4 is here
October 07, 2010 – New Scenario - "Strike Early"
September 28, 2010 – An Empire is Born - Introducing Alpha Release 3
September 02, 2010 – Build your first starbase with Alpha Release 2
August 25, 2010 – Nu alpha release 1 is now live
August 08, 2010 – Data extraction is underway
August 03, 2010 – The Project is a Go!

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