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/

Gamespy has a very interesting article on games that are based on politics. As the US election approaches, many gamers have become interested in games that cover politics in various forms. This article covers some of the games involved including Stardock's The Political Machine.

Stardock released ImpressionCreator today. ImpressionCreator is a software program that allows the user to easily create impressive looking program launchers, menu programs, and a variety of useful interfaces. When users insert a CD into their drives, the auto-run program that comes up to begin the installation is usually ugly and unimpressive. In addition, many companies include programs that act as launchpads for their various programs that are visually unappealing or clunky. Impres...

IconDeveloper is a program that lets users easily create their own Windows icons. IconDeveloper is different because it is designed in such a way so that non-technical users can also create icons. With IconDeveloper, does NOT include its own icon editor. Instead, it focuses on making it easy for users to take existing images from any source and turn them into icons quickly and easily. An image copied into the clipboard can be pasted as an icon. It can load up virtually any common gra...

SkinStudio is a program that lets users create their own skins for popular programs. It comes in 3 forms -- a freeware version which is for creating WindowBlinds visual styles, a standard version which lets users create new skins by mixing and matching pieces from other skins, and a Pro version which adds support for creating skins for Windows Media Player. If you've ever thought of creating your own Windows GUI look or a skin for Windows Media Player, SkinStudio is a program for...

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 Microso...

Aluria is perhaps best known as the developer of Spyware Eliminator, a product selected for bundling by AOL. Aluria has recently begun offering review and certification services for websites and WinCustomize is among the first to join the program. In order to qualify for Aluria’s SAFE Certification, a website must meet the following criteria: - Not sell, offer or promote products or services related to adware, spyware or malware. - Not install or cause to install programs desi...

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 th...

Alienware has made their desktop suites available as a free download or pre-installed with the purchase of a new computer system. Alienware systems are universally known for exclusive customization options like distinctive cases and one-of-a-kind colors. Now Alienware has taken this creativity to a new level by licensing Stardock's Theme Manager technology to extend Alieware's unique style to the Microsoft® Windows® operating system desktop. Alienware is the first and only system manu...

Under the terms of a licensure agreement, Samuraiworks of Japan has released a special version of WindowBlinds localized for the Japanese market. Samuraiworks has also received permission from both Stardock and from many skin authors to offer a Japanese-language version of the WinCustomize site. You can visit the Japanese WinCustomize site at https://www.wincustomize.jp/ and see the WindowBlinds site at http://www.windowblinds.jp/

Stardock's newest game, The Political Machine is now on shelves across North America (Walmart, Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.). Published by Ubi Soft, The Political Machine puts players in the role of the campaign manager of a Presidential candidate. Early reviews have been very positive. The new issue of Time Magazine reviews the game very favorably and includes a quote from Stardock's President & CEO (who goes by the unfortunate handle of "frogboy" on-line) in it. It's on page 21 of the...

PowerDesk 6 is the "luxury edition" of a Windows file manager. It includes lots of new features including: * PowerDesk Pro doubles its already strong file compression handling from 16 formats to 32. * Improved Sync manager. * Configuration Export/Import, a feature that allows you to save your entire configuration in one file. * Improved thumbnails, File Finder and more! (And did I mention that its skinnable?)

San Francisco, CA–August 11, 2004–Ubisoft, a leading company in the multimedia industry, announced with Stardock Entertainment the release of The Political Machine, which ships today to retailers nationwide. A PC-CD strategy game based on data collected from surveys, exit polls, and the 2000 U.S. Census, The Political Machine users are challenged to spend 41 weeks on the campaign trail, serving as a campaign manager for a presidential candidate. In an effort to secure a spot in the O...

Stardock Entertainment is pleased to announce the availability of The Political Machine (published by Ubisoft). The Political Machine is a strategy game in which players take on the role of campaign manager for a US Presidential candidate. In it players compete against either the computer or against other players via the Internet in a contest to win the White House. Candidates must campaign, raise money, take out advertisements, win endorsements, and even go on cable TV news shows su...

Computer Power User Magazine took a look at DesktopX 2.1. While DesktopX 2.2 is world's better than 2.1 was and will be out in the next couple of weeks, CPU's look at 2.1 gives users an insight on the pros and cons of DesktopX.