As with so many online games lately, it's easy to wind up confused about the official Stormgate launch time. Frost Giant's free-to-play RTS has been technically playable for about two weeks but hasn't actually launched yet. Its Steam page may say it launched in July, but the actual release date is on August 13.
Stormgate has done that thing where developers co-opt the phrase "early access" to refer to a period of time where players who pre-order the game get to play early—starting back on July 30 in this case. To add further semantic confusion, Stormgate is in fact launching in Steam Early Access, the thing we're all used to calling "early access." And even though it offered a preorder package for $25, don't forget that Stormgate is indeed a free-to-play game. Despite all that unnecessary confusion over what words mean, Stormgate is about to launch, for real and for free.
