Plymouth, MI- (August 17, 2005) – Game publisher Stardock Entertainment has added Reaktor to its electronic distribution system, TotalGaming.net. Reaktor was developed by MoCLIX, an independent game team based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Reaktor is a color-matching game that pits you against the clock. Fifteen planets are in danger of being irreversibly contaminated by radiation due to broken nuclear reactors. It’s the player’s job to prevent the meltdowns and save the worlds from total destr...
Plymouth, MI- (August 12, 2005) – Software developer Stardock Entertainment has added the side scrolling action game Jets'n'Guns to TotalGaming.net. Originally developed by the Czech Republic game company Rake in Grass, Jets'n'Guns is the most recent title to be added to TotalGaming.net, Stardock Entertainment's game distribution system on the Internet. TotalGaming.net members are able to purchase titles at discounted rates by using a unique Token-based payment system. Jets'n'Guns is pure,...
Contact: Kristin Hatcher (kristin@stardock.com) Phone: 734-927-0677 x 105 Plymouth, MI- (August 3, 2005) – Game publisher Stardock Entertainment has announced the addition of the flight simulation game Flatspace to its electronic distribution system TotalGaming.net. Originally developed by UK based Cornutopia, Flatspace is the most recent title to be added to the TotalGaming store. In the distant future, space has expanded to such an extent that stars and planets can no longer h...
There's a new Podcast channel coming -- PowerUser.TV. If you want a sneak preview of what's coming up, you can listen to the first segment of its first pod-cast that covers Beta 1 of Windows Vista. It's an interview with Stardock's Brad Wardell over his impressions on Microsoft's new OS.
eVGA is holding it's annual on-line scavenger hunt and this year the prizes are valued at $20,000! The prizes this year are extraordinary. Stardock is one of the sponsors. We are providing one-year subscriptions to TotalGaming.Net and to Object Desktop. There is no purchase needed to enter or to win. The contest is, however, open only to residents of the US and Canada. The complete rules can be found at http://www.evga.com/scavenger/default.asp?switch=3
A new version of IconPackager has been released. This update has been designed to address some compatibility issues and fix a few bugs we found. Below is what's been updated: Updated iprepair.dll for people reporting issues (like being unable to drag items in ObjectDock). Added File > New menu for creating new themes. Added 527 string entry to language files. Fixed new file types being displayed in Package Builder mode correctly. Fixed exe icons being displayed correctly ...
Alienware is giving away an exclusive War of the Worlds modded PC. The PC is an Area-51(r) 3500, with a specially modified case to celebrate the movie. The PC also features the AlienGuise Theme Manager software, powered by Object Desktop from Stardock. Go to https://www.alienware.com/contest_pages/contest_wow.aspx?source=1899 to enter the contest. War of the Worlds is now playing in theaters
Stardock's Brad Wardell will be giving a talk on the opportunities for commercial skinning. A growing number of artists are now making a full-time living designing custom user interfaces, skins, themes, icons, and other elements needed to create alternative user interfaces for applications, desktops, and websites. And the market is likely to explode next year with Microsoft's release of Longhorn and the increasing popularity of widget and gadget enabling programs. deviantART Summit is being he...
PlanetAMD64 has extended the deadline for contest submssions until 12 AM PST (Midnight) on September 5th, 2005, which is the Labor Day Weekend.You can see all the rules at http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=5838 (Registration may be required.)The contest's Welcome page, including a listing of prizes, is at http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=7470
DirectSkin 4.5 has been reviewed by Mike Gunderloy at the Larkware site. "DirectSkin is a single ActiveX control with a simple purpose: it brings skinning to your applications. That is, you drop the control on your form and it is not itself visible. Rather, it enables your application to make use of Stardock's skinning technology, developed for its own WindowBlinds application. Your end users can then select from a variety of "skins" (which you need to provide) to change the lo...
Stardock has officially launched the website for its upcoming massively multiplayer real time strategy game, Society. The website, SocietyGame.com, is designed to give players a place to interact with the development team and get more information on the game. In the game, players take the role of a sovereign of a society in which they start with control of a single province in a world with tens of thousands of provinces. Players build cities which have dozens of different kinds of buildings th...
Gamespy has an indepth sneak peek at Stardock's upcoming MMORTS that is in development. Check it out to get details on Society..
Stardock Releases DirectSkin 4.5 Make your applications fully skinnable using WindowBlinds(TM) technology New version now includes optimizations for Microsoft .NET Framework CANTON, MI- (May 11th, 2005) – Stardock, a Microsoft Gold Partner and a leading developer of software that customizes the Microsoft Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI), today announced the release of DirectSkin 4.5. DirectSkin is a tool used by software devel...
The 2005 PC Magazine Utility Guide issue is out and Stardock's Object Desktp won the Editor's Choice Award. Stardock's popular suite of Windows enhancement utilities also won the award last year. This year's Object Desktop includes a major new version of DesktopX, a new program called RightClick another new program called IconX along with significant enhancements to core features such as WindowBlinds, SkinStudio, and Theme Manager. For Object Desktop 2005, Stardock also recentl...
LIVONIA, MI (May 3, 2005). Software developer Stardock, the world's leading developer of Windows enhancement software, released Object Desktop 2005. Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancement utilities that enable users to enhance virtually every aspect of the Windows environment. When these programs are put together, it is like having a future version of Windows today. "We listen to what features PC users wish for and then put them together into a single suite of Windows extension u...