Plymouth, MI- (June 19, 2006) – Fight monsters and explore a medieval world in the same vein as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger and Dragon Warriorin Amaranth Games' Aveyond, available today on TotalGaming.net. In Aveyond, the deity Ahriman has opened the Demon Portal, unleashing dark creatures onthe great isles. In order to save your world, you must recover the Sword of Shadows and journey to the mystical isle of Aveyond in order to seal the Demon Portal. Players will experience more than 50 hou...

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...

Plymouth, MI- (May 25, 2006) – Stardock announced today they added Cross Racing Championship to their quickly growing roster of downloadable games on TotalGaming.net. The exciting racing title for PC is available on http://totalgaming.stardock.com/games/?id=crc for $19.99. Members of Totalgaming.net can purchase the title at a 30 percent discount for two tokens. Licensed from Merscom LLC, Cross Racing Championship is the thirteenth title added to TotalGaming.net in the last quarter. Jay...

Plymouth, MI- (May 18, 2006) – Stardock announced today that the Cypron Studios title is available for presale orders via TotalGaming.net for three tokens or $30. TotalGaming.net will be the primary vendor for online sales and is the exclusive online vendor of the GODS: Lands of Infinity official web site ( http://www.gods-game.com/ ). GODS: Lands of Infinity invites you into an exciting world full of adventures, battles and quests of unearthly affairs. Players can spend hours discovering...

Plymouth, MI- (April 5, 2006) – Stardock Entertainment today announces the addition of Terminal Studio's Atlantis Quest to TotalGaming.net. The game takes you on a quest of adventure and discovery around the ancient lands of the Mediterranean with the ultimate goal of finding the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. In every country your job is to assemble a precious artifact that will help you find the way to your destination. Using classic matching game mechanics with a new twist, the devel...

Plymouth, MI- (April 1, 2006) – Stardock Entertainment is excited to announce that the upcoming Topware Interactive racing title, Xpand Rally, is now available for purchase on TotalGaming.net, ahead of the game's retail release in North America. Xpand Rally is a breathtaking game that gives fans the true-to-life experience of driving powerful rally cars amidst photorealistic sceneries. Realistic weather effects, rolling hills and animated scenery all add to game's visual perfection. Xpand Rall...

Plymouth, MI- (March 30, 2005) – Stardock Entertainment announces the re-release of Battlegoat Studios', Supreme Ruler 2010, on TotalGaming.net. Supreme Ruler 2010 takes players into a world where the major powers as we currently know them have disintegrated into bickering economic and military regions. The United Nations has disappeared, and in its place stands an organization with far sharper teeth referred to simply as "The World Market." Individual regions are left to fight for power to do...

Plymouth, MI- (March 28, 2005) – Stardock Entertainment is proud to announce the release of Meridian 4’s new adventure game, Daemonica, on the TotalGaming.net store. Daemonica is an exciting 3D interactive mystery set in medieval England. Take on the role of Nicholas Farepoynt, an investigator who can talk to the Dead. You will explore the dark surroundings of the slowly dying city of Cavorn, talk to both the living and dead to gather information, punish the deserved, collect herbs to make pot...

February 21, 2006 -- Software developer Stardock Entertainment released the sequel to its award-winning PC strategy game, Galactic Civilizations today.  Galactic Civilizations is a space-based strategy game set in the 23rd century in which players take on the role of leader of a space-faring civilization.  Through military might, diplomatic skill, technological superiority, or cultural supremacy players attempt to dominate the galaxy against up to 10 opponents. The sequel, Galact...

This week Kristin, Derek and Brad discuss Microsoft’s ongoing embroilment with the European Union over monopolistic practices, and the Senate considers the fairness of the way the Internet is currently run, i.e., a small number of companies have a disproportionate share of the burden of bandwidth. It’s a complicated issue and the PowerUser team calls on their listeners for suggestions. Also, Skype may soon be available on cell phones, and Motorola proposes allowing people to use their cel...

Galactic Civilizations II is less than a week away.  And we will be putting out a demo of the game after it's released.  But we wanted to put some quick gameplay stuff out there.  This is just a little thing we made that shows how the main UI works. If people find this useful, we can do more.  More video demos will be put up in the GalCiv II Journals area: https://www.galciv2.com/Journals.aspx

Plymouth, MI- (January 26, 2006) – Stardock Entertainment and TopWare Interactive today announced the companies have reached an agreement to bring many of TopWare’s best-selling games to the TotalGaming.net online distribution service. Under the agreement, acclaimed titles like Earth 2160 and Xpand Rally will be sold via TotalGaming.net at a significant savings over the shrink-wrapped boxed games. Products will become available via TotalGaming.net at regular intervals in the coming weeks, with...

Woize Ltd. is the latest company to choose DirectSkin from Stardock to develop skinnable applications. “Being able to customize the look and feel of our solution is core to our business model,” said Anders Halldin, co-founder and CEO of Woize International Ltd. “We selected DirectSkin from Stardock because it is clearly the premier product for creating skinnable applications. DirectSkin is used by such prestigious companies as ATI, Reuters, Autodesk and others. By choosing DirectSkin, we were...

Plymouth, MI- (December 22, 2005) – Stardock Corporation announced today that it had reached an agreement to bring ETROM: The Astral Essence, the fast-paced action-RPG from P.M. Studios, to the company’s progressive TotalGaming.net game-distribution service. ETROM: The Astral Essence takes players on a thrilling open-ended adventure to a bleak, futuristic world, where survival is earned, rather than expected. Scheduled for release in February 2006, ETROM will be available at TotalGaming.net fo...

Stardock has released a set of free Christmas games. Fun for the entire family, the games include Northpole Shodown where you play as a couple of elves who must save Santa, Elves Inc. and Stack n Sack. Available for play over at TotalGaming.net Try them for yourself.