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We have a huge variety of games magazines here, but I think the focus tends to be on big name RTS and FPS and crap like that. I don't really read them, to be honest. I'm sure you could find one that would feature SE4 though. Perhaps get the demo onto a coverdisk?

Anyway, I was searching for freeware 4X games (although I didn't know the term "4X" in those days) and came across SEIII. I got hooked, and for some reason I wanted to go to Malfador's website (probably to register for the full Version) I remember the Malfador URL in the documentation was no longer valid, so I put in a few web searches and eventually found my way to malfador.com via some of the fan sites. That was a few months before SE4 came out.

My original search (the one that found SEIII) was probably something like "freeware games conquest empire". If it isn't out there already, I would suggest putting the SEIV demo on as many freeware sites as possible.