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As progress continues on Sins' development, we thought today would be good choice for our January snapshot. [read more]
1/19/2007 By Yarlen in Sins News
As progress continues on Sins' development, we thought today would be good choice for our January snapshot. [read more]
1/19/2007 By Yarlen in Sins News
Decorate your desktop in style with the first Sins of a Solar Empire wallpaper! Available in a variety of sizes (1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1920x1440), this wallpaper displays a close-up shot of a ship in orbit of a nearby planet. Download [ All ]: [ 1024x768 ] [ 1280x1024 ] [ 1600x1200 ] [ 1920x1440 Widescreen ] [read more]
1/11/2007 By Yarlen in Sins News
Space is a cold, dark vacuum that is mostly devoid of anything more than dust. Unfortunately for the TEC, they've encountered space that isn't empty. This harsh reality was reinforced at the Battle of Rilor where two mighty fleets clashed, leaving one victorious and the other nothing but debris. [read more]
12/14/2006 By Yarlen in Sins News
For many years, the human race has expanded into the galaxy as a vast commercial empire of independents. Now, that long peace has come to an end as two threats converge together at once. The sins of each civilization now demanding a reckoning in blood and carnage. Sins that will lead to the annihilation of all but a single solar empire. Check out this teaser trailer for more. [read more]
12/12/2006 By Frogboy in Sins News
Most screenshots will be found on game sites. But we're keeping a few handy for new users to find here. The 3D engine used by Sins is being continually enhanced. Over time, you will keep seeing the graphics get better and better as we get closer to release. The Ironclad team is really kicking butt on the shading technology used in the game as well as the dynamic tactical interfaces which we think will help set the standard of how to interact with units of different scales (you'll see what we ... [read more]
11/9/2006 By Frogboy in Sins News
Ever played a game where you knew... just knew that if you could have talked to the developers even a week or two before they went gold that they could have made the game so much better? With Sins of a Solar Empire that is exactly what you'll be able to do! Users who pre-order the game will be given access to the beta. No non-disclosures. You don't like what we're doing, you're free to howl from the rooftops about it. Our job (at Ironclad and Stardock) is to make sure that the final game is ... [read more]
11/7/2006 By Frogboy in Sins News
Stardock Entertainment, the creators of Galactic Civilizations, and Ironclad Games which includes developers from Homeworld: Cataclysm, have teamed up to bring you an epic real-time, multiplayer, space strategy game that combines much of the epic scale of a traditional 4X strategy title with the real-time 3D experience found in releases such as Homeworld, Total Annihilation, and other such games. Over the coming months, this site will expand to give you the full story behind this epic new fra... [read more]
10/10/2006 By Frogboy in Sins News
Stardock Corporation Launches New Web Site Stardock Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Partner and the world's leading provider of desktop customization software for Windows, re-launched itself into the marketplace today with a new web site aimed at driving traffic, increasing sales of its popular Windows software applications and further promoting its new interactive entertainment publishing division. The new web site can be found at www.sta... [read more]
7/18/2006 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
On Wednesday June 7th, 2006 3:00am EST we will be taking most webservers off line wile we upgrade our primary database system. The outage is planned to last a minimum of 3 hours and it is possible that it could last longer. Sites and services that will be affected are: desktopgadgets.com forums.stardock.com (all forum servers) galciv1.com galciv2.com joeuser.com politicalmachine.com poweruser.tv societygame.com totalgaming.net wincustomize.com (and WC Personal Pages) xpthemes.co... [read more]
6/5/2006 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
TotalGaming.net delivers PC games electronically Popular no-DRM gaming service enters new phase For Immediate Release: Contact: Brian Clair ([email protected]) Phone: 734-927-0677 X 129 Livonia MI – July 19, 2005. Stardock Entertainment, best known for its award-winning PC strategy games such as The Political Machine and Galactic Civilizations has released TotalGaming.net : Phase 2. TotalGaming.net is an electronic distribution network in which users can pick a game, pres... [read more]
7/19/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Stardock is moving next week. It probably won't disrupt things too much. After 7 years being based in Livonia Michigan, Stardock has purchased a building over in Plymouth Michigan and is migrating to it. So if we seem a bit out of touch next week, that's why.  The network setup is being done while we move which should make things as seamless as possible. [read more]
6/11/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
LIVONIA, MI (February 28, 2005) – Software developer Stardock Corporation released Multiplicity today. Multiplicity is a program that enables users to control multiple local computers with a single keyboard and mouse. Multiplicity works by having a primary computer with a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to it and multiple local secondary computers that still have a monitor connected to them but no keyboard or mouse. When the user moves their mouse cursor from the primary computer to on... [read more]
2/28/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Stardock has released a trial version of RightClick.  RightClck is a program that lets users extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu.  When a user right-clicks on their Windows desktop, RightClick's custom made menus comes up.  Users can add short-cuts, tasks, system commands, and much more to the menu. It's also fully skinnable and can be set to automatically inherit the user's current WindowBlinds visual style.  For users who normally h... [read more]
2/17/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
ObjectDock and ObjectDock Plus 1.1 are now available! ObjectDock is a freeware program launcher and task manager that is highly configurable in how they look and feel. ObjectDock Plus adds tabbed docks, multiple docks, fly-out menus and other features. New in ObjectDock / ObjectDock Plus 1.1: Zooming tabbed docks (icons in tabbd docks can now zoom). You can now always resize tabbed docks from corners Can now run on limited user accounts Supports WinKey+D now (show desktop no long... [read more]
1/11/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
ObjectDock & ObjectDock Plus 1.1 are now available! ObjectDock is a freeware program launcher and task manager that is highly configurable in how they look and feel. ObjectDock Plus adds tabbed docks, multiple docks, fly-out menus and other features. New in ObjectDock / ObjectDock Plus 1.1: Zooming tabbed docks (icons in tabbed docks can now zoom). You can now always resize tabbed docks from corners Can now run on limited user accounts Supports WinKey+D... [read more]
1/11/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Natural Desktop is a program that gives your desktop a natural look, feel, and sound to it. First, it changes the wallpaper on your desktop based on the time of day and time of year. The wallpapers were created by Ryan Bliss, founder of Digital Blasphemy. Mason Fischer created nearly a half hour sound track that is based on the time of day. Morning doves in the morning, crickets at night, rain when it''s storming. And finally, the most advanced weather visuals available created by Matt Crockett ... [read more]
1/10/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Natural Desktop is a program that gives your desktop a natural look, feel, and sound to it. First, it changes the wallpaper on your desktop based on the time of day and time of year. The wallpapers were created by Ryan Bliss, founder of Digital Blasphemy. Mason Fischer created nearly a half hour sound track that is based on the time of day. Morning doves in the morning, crickets at night, rain when it''s storming. And finally, the most advanced weather visuals available created by Matt Crockett ... [read more]
1/10/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Natural Desktop is a program that gives your desktop a natural look, feel, and sound to it. First, it changes the wallpaper on your desktop based on the time of day and time of year. The wallpapers were created by Ryan Bliss, founder of Digital Blasphemy. Mason Fischer created nearly a half hour sound track that is based on the time of day. Morning doves in the morning, crickets at night, rain when it''s storming. And finally, the most advanced weather visuals available created by Matt Crockett ... [read more]
1/10/2005 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
You can now purchase and download The Political Machine from Stardock! We are also working on version 1.1 of The Political Machine with updates to various campaign issues, new candidates, and more! We expect to have that out in the next couple of weeks. It will be a free update for all players of The Political Machine. To purchase and download the game immediate go here: https://www.politicalmachine.com/purchase.asp [read more]
1/5/2005 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
ATI™ has always provided outstanding support for the PC customization community by participating in activities such as the GUI Olympics. Now ATI is offering skinners the opportunity to design the user interface for the Catalyst™ Control Center” The Catalyst Control Center was made skinnable through the integration of DirectSkin from Stardock. DirectSkin integrates easily into programs and allows software developers to use WindowBlinds technology to create new user interfaces for their produc... [read more]
11/5/2004 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
In early October using tweaked issues that will be further adjusted in v1.1 coming out later, The Political Machine correctly predicted 47 of the 50 states in this year's election. No polling of candidates. All based on its issue model. So why didn't it get all 50? The Political Machine's turn out model can't predict the actual turn out. It is based on historical norms. In this election, Republican turn-out was significantly higher than in any previously recorded election resulting in Bush vi... [read more]
11/3/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
LIVONIA, MI (October 29, 2004) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released Blog Navigator 1.0 today. Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs (short for “web logs”) to read and organize them. Blog Navigator works by reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a clean, easy to understand way. It includes a host of different news and blog sites for users to read through. Blog Navigator is arguably the most advanced program of its kind and it’s ... [read more]
10/28/2004 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
LIVONIA, MI (October 29, 2004) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released Blog Navigator 1.0 today. Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs (short for “web logs”) to read and organize them. Blog Navigator works by reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a clean, easy to understand way. It includes a host of different news and blog sites for users to read through. Blog Navigator is arguably the most advanced program of its kind and it’s free... [read more]
10/28/2004 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Slate has a great round-up of all the political strategy games for this campaign season. We are pleased to say that our own game, The Political Machine, was ranked as the best of the group. Read the whole story the whole thing and to check out the other games. If you''re a political junkie, you may want to try out these other games as well. http://slate.msn.com/id/2108292/ [read more]
10/26/2004 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
Check out this article over at Gamespy that goes through the various US presidential based games and what their backgrounds are. The article is located here: http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/559/559987p1.html [read more]
10/26/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
Polls are interesting things but statistical analysis is my thing. And based on our models in The Political Machine, Kerry is going to squeak out a victory in November barring a sudden change in events. But the Florida of 2004 may be where you least expect it - Iowa. Ohio and Iowa are going to be the key states this time. But it is Iowa that people should be keeping an eye on even more so than Ohio or Florida. It has a relatively low population which creates all kinds of opportunity fo... [read more]
10/15/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
If you are interested in game development, here is an inside scoop on how The Political Machine was made and what went right and wrong on it. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041011/wardell_01.shtml [read more]
10/12/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
The official 1.02 patch is now available for download from Ubisoft (for CD orders) or via Stardock Central if you preordered or have TotalGaming.net from Stardock. If you have previously had Safedisc issues and contacted [email protected] for those, please followup on those again now. This update will go over 1.01 or the 1.0 retail CD release. https://www.politicalmachine.com/Download_Update.asp 1.02 Update ----------- Changes: Endorsement costs ta... [read more]
10/12/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
This week we expect to release v1.02 of The Political Machine which improves support for Windows 98 systems and makes some gameplay tweaks with regards to the endorsement system (it'll be slightly harder for Republicans to get liberal endorsements and vice versa). But what about after the election? Stardock plans to continue to provide new updates to The Political Machine in various forms. One area we plan to try to update the game regularly are on the issues. We don't want the ga... [read more]
10/4/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
WindowBlinds 4.4 is now available for public download. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to completely customize their Windows user GUI. That includes their title bars, push buttons, Start bar, toolbar icons, radio buttons, progress animations and nearly every other part of the Windows GUI. WindowBlinds is the most popular desktop enhancement program of all time according to CNET with over 7 MILLION downloads from CNET Download.com. It is used by companies such as Microsoft, Sony... [read more]
9/27/2004 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
We're putting the final tweaks on v1.02 of The Political Machine. Amongst the tweaks and changes come in the endorsement area. Based on player feedback, we've decided to make conservative special interest groups harder to win the support of if you're a Democrat and vice versa if you're a Republican with the liberal special interest groups. Most of our energy has been trying to make sure the game works on the widest variety of hardware. The game should run fine on pretty much an... [read more]
9/21/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
The first major PC publication review of The Political Machine has come out - Computer Gaming World's 4.5 star review and an editor's choice award. We are very excited and pleased about this. As you can imagine, trying to create a political strategy game that has the right balance of realism and fun and put it together into a $20 package that has very high production values still was really a challenge. But one that we enjoyed immensely and hope you have been enjoying as well. Make sure yo... [read more]
9/21/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
Stardock Launches JoeUser.com Blog Community New website combines blogging and magazine features Livonia MI (September 20, 2004) – After a year of development and testing, the new blog community JoeUser.com has been officially launched. JoeUser.com is a website that allows individuals to sign up for free web pages that include tools for easily adding user-created articles to their pages (blogs). Blogging, short for web logs, has grown in popularity as users from around the world ... [read more]
9/20/2004 By Stardock Central in Political Machine News
USA Today reviews The Political Machine and gives a play by play example of a Bush vs. Kerry game. Check it out at: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/games/2004-09-09-politicalmachine_x.htm [read more]
9/14/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
The Political Machine is published by Ubi Soft, one of the world's premiere game publishers. But the game was designed and developed by Stardock ( www.stardock.com ). Stardock came up with the idea for The Political Machine back in 2000 during the Florida debacle. Realizing that the country was split evenly, a strategy game idea was born. Stardock's last game, Galactic Civilizations , won numerous awards including best turn based strategy game and editor's choice awards from Com... [read more]
9/14/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
Next week will mark the official launch of JoeUser.com, arguably the world's fastest growing blogging community on the Internet. On JoeUser.com, you can create your own free blog site and post articles on any topic you can imagine. Articles in the politics category gets syndicated out to sites like this one for instance. Visit https://www.joeuser.com to check out the articles written by thousands of others on-line or to create your own free blog. [read more]
9/14/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
If you have DesktopX installed ( www.desktopx.net ) you can run this electoral college status widget: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=34&SkinID=109 [read more]
9/11/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
DesktopX 2.21 has been released. DesktopX is a program that extends Windows to support true objects on the desktop. These objects are used to do everything from have "super icons" to being combined together to create "widgets" as well as building entire desktops. DesktopX is actually what Stardock used to develop the user interface in The Political Machine. With DesktopX, Stardock was able to create the actual game screens and prototype them at the same time. The finished screens... [read more]
9/9/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
For those of you interested in trying out the game before you buy it, you can get a taste of what the game is like by going here: http://www.download.com/The-Political-Machine/3000-8027-10312016.html?tag=lst-0-1 Have fun! [read more]
9/7/2004 By Frogboy in Political Machine News
If you want to see the reviews on The Political Machine, visit the site below to see a round-up. Very useful site btw for seeing people's views on movies, games, and more. http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/politicalmachine/ [read more]
8/30/2004 By Draginol in Political Machine News
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