Stardock has continued to enhance its award winning PC strategy game with the new version, 1.21 now being available via Stardock Central ( Link The new version has some tweaks in it that make it tougher to cheat on the Metaverse (the massively multiplayer v
If you already have Galactic Civilizations, you can upgrade to a full TotalGaming.net subscription for only $50. And that means you get a LOT of games on top of just Galactic Civilizations. Visit Link to up
Livonia MI – July 20, 2004. Stardock Entertainment, best known for its award-winning PC strategy games such as The Political Machine and Galactic Civilizations launched a new gaming network today called TotalGaming.net. TotalGaming.net allows users to purchase PC games and immediately download them individually or as part of a subscription. Users obtain the games through a powerful yet easy to use program called Stardock Central. “This is the closest thing I’ve seen to iTunes
Totally customize your Windows desktop with Theme Manager, a brand new freeware program that lets you manage and apply all your skins, themes, icons, and wallpapers from a single easy to use interface. You can even take a "Snapshot" of your desktop and save it as a .suite file that contains all the corresponding files needed to recreate your ultra-customized desktop setup. Theme Manager is one of the programs that makes up Stardock's Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements
It's not commonly known but Stardock started out as an OS/2 software developer. Read the highs and lows of that wild ride!
Flexbeta has a very very detailed look at Stardock's various Windows customization software products. Check it out!
SkinStudio 4.3 is now available for download! SkinStudio is a program that lets you create your own GUIs for Windows (aka skins/visual styles). These visual styles are then applied via a program called WindowBlinds (www.windowblinds.net). SkinStudio 4.3 has two key new features: 1) You can now easily create and export toolbar icons and progress animations (see new section on WinCustomize.com) 2) It takes advantage of features in WindowBlinds 4.3 to enable easy and seam
LIVONIA, MI (June 15, 2003) – Independent game studio, Stardock Entertainment, released its expansion pack for the award winning strategy game, Galactic Civilizations. The expansion pack, called Altarian Prophecy, has been in development and testing for some months to get all the features and enhancements put together just right. “Our goal with this expansion pack was not just to add new content to Galactic Civilizations but add in the kinds of features and tools that would give the gam
CANTON, MI- (June 11, 2004) – In what must surely seem a match made in computer heaven, Alienware, the leading manufacturer of high-performance computer notebooks, desktops and professional systems has formed a partnership with Stardock, the world-wide leader in the development and distribution of software that customizes the Windows PC desktop. Under the terms of the partnership, Alienware will pre-install Theme Manager from Stardock on all their new systems. Theme Manager allows users
Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy goes gold New Add-on brings new features, options to popular strategy game For Immediate Release: Contact: Brad Wardell (Email) LIVONIA, MI (June 3, 2003) – Independent game studio, Stardock Entertainment, announced that its expansion pack for the award winning strategy game, Galactic Civilizations has gone gold. The expansion pack, called Altarian Prophecy, has been in development and testing for some months to ge
The GUI Olympics is an inter-website user interface / graphics design contest with many of best designers from around the world competing for over $15,000 in cash and prizes. Weeks 3 and 4 have just come to pass with the results now available! Visit www.guiolympics.com to checkout the skins and icons for yourselves! Next up: Best OVERALL skins and icons!
With The Political Machine heading towards its Summer release date, Reuters interviews Stardock's Brad Wardell regarding the game mechanics and why they think this game will be fun for both political junkies and casual players.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 2, 2003 – Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading videogame publishers, today announced that they have signed a deal with Stardock Entertainment to publish The Political Machine, a strategy game where players take on the role of campaign manager for a presidential candidate. Players must raise money, take out advertisements, win endorsements and appear on popular TV news shows to answer tough questions about today’s most pressing issues. The Political Machine is schedule
FileFront has conducted a battery of tests to determine the effects that WindowBlinds has on the performance of PC games. The results are pretty interesting and you can see them for yourselves at the FileFront site. Definitely worth checking out.
Stardock has released Beta 4A of The Political Machine to its beta testers. The Political Machine is a strategy game in which players take on the role of campaign manager in the upcoming US Presidential campaign. Users can become beta testers by subscribing to Drengin.net ( <A TARGET=_blank href=http://www.drengi
"Only companies that have demonstrated the highest levels of customer service, proven their experience and attained advanced certification receive the designation of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners,¨ says Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. "Today, Microsoft recognizes Stardock for its skills and expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology.¨ "We are very proud to have received this cer
This month's Stardock TV takes a look at the GUI Olympics, widget making, DirectGUI and how to do other really cool things to your Windows desktop.
Two new utilities have been released for WindowBlinds that can help users and skinners get even more out of the popular windows GUI skinning program. The first one, WBExec, was developed by one of the top plug-in authors in the software industry - MadIce. It enables skinners to add new title bar buttons that can open up menus and launch all kinds of different programs including the Start menu, Most recent files, Drive menu, and much more. For skinners looking to make visual styles that
There's so many cool things you can do with your Windows based PC. Things you rarely hear about. Stardock's Brad Wardell has started a weekly "blog" on the life and times of "skinning". Check it out.
Stardock has made available the first public update to WindowBlinds of 2004. WindowBlinds is the world's most popular desktop enhancement program. It allows users to completely change the look and feel of the Windows GUI (title bars, Start bar, scrollbars, push buttons, toolbar icons, etc.). WindowBlinds 4.3 includes some new features such as transition morphing, alpha blended title bar buttons, as well as uses less memory and is faster than previous versions. You can download
Blog Navigator is a fully featured Internet article reader that reads in RSS feeds (most major sites have RSS feeds these days) and displays them in a clean interface to make it very easy and fast to read through tons of news. There are other RSS readers out there already, but Blog Navigator has a few features that, when combined, make it really stand out: 1) It automatically pre-fetches articles. That is, it caches articles you haven't read yet so that when you get to them
Turbo-Charge your Windows desktop with Universe Metal 2004! It''s a new premium suite that uses Stardock''s technology to completely change the look and feel of Windows. It''s like running a whole new OS. Based off of Pixtudio''s outstanding Universe Metal suite of yore, Universe Metal 2004 completes the picture with a host of new enhancements: * WindowBlinds 4.x based visual style to change your title bars, Start bar, scrollbars, etc. * All new progress animations! *
A new beta of The Political Machine is available for Drengin.net subscribers via Stardock Central. You will need to delete your *.DDS files to make use of the new graphics (in the \gfx graphics). Multiplayer works! Join #PolMachine on Stardock Central''s chat to get games together. Let us know what problems you run into in the game forum on PoliticalMachine.com (or in this news item). New features such as exit polling, candidate creation, and lots of other goodies are now in. Have fun
DirectSkin is a programming extension for software developers to easily make their existing applications fully skinnable. It comes in the form of an OCX that along with a couple lines of lines of coded added by the developer enables that application to make use of a specific visual style on their program. DirectSkin has been used by dozens of companies to deliver branded application or to enable their application to have a Windows XP look and feel on non-XP platforms. The advantage Dir
We''re getting pretty close to the release of Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy. The expansion pack to the award-winning Galactic Civilizations. The expansion pack adds 2 new civilizations, custom maps, custom scenarios, a multi-mission campaign, editors for creating your own maps, new ships, new technologies, and more! If you have Drengin.net or have pre-ordered the expansion pack, you can download it now. Let us know how you like it because if this gets the green ligh
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