Stardock in conjunction with Marvel and FIS has released the Spider-Man Desktop. This new suite has been in development for months by a design team at SkinPlant. Under license from Marvel, the suite includes the software necessary to change the look and feel of your Windows GUI. The entire suite is only $8.95 (there is a discount for Object Desktop users). Check it out for yourself at https://www.stardock.com/products/themes/spider-man/

Visit JoeUser.com to get a first glimpse of all the cool things being done with Object Desktop this Fall. Object Desktop is a suite of programs that can completely customize the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Windows. It's like having a future version of Windows today. And there are some really cool things in store for the rest of this year. Check it out.

Theme Manager is Stardock’s software program for changing the look and feel of the Windows PC Desktop. It can change the Window’s visual style, icons, mouse cursor, wallpaper, add Desktop widgets and even change the look of media applications. Theme Manager allows users to effortlessly change the complete look and feel of their desktops with just one click. Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Marketing for NVIDIA, said “NVIDIA continues to be impressed by what Stardock is capable of d...

Stardock has continued to enhance its award winning PC strategy game with the new version, 1.21 now being available via Stardock Central (http://www.sdcentral.net). The new version has some tweaks in it that make it tougher to cheat on the Metaverse (the massively multiplayer virtual universe scoring ladder) along with dozens of tweaks and fixes suggested by or reported by players. To learn more about Galactic Civilizations, visit https://www.galciv.com

Just in time for the holiday weekend is a fresh update to Galactic Civilizations and its expansion pack, Altarian Prophecy. Galactic Civilizations is a space based strategy game in which players must compete against several alien civilizations for control of the galaxy. Fight wars, conduct trade, research technology, negotiate treaties, manage your economy on the path to becoming the leader of the galaxy. The game won several editor's choice awards in 2003. Altarian Prophecy is th...

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 use...

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, 2004 – 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 sche...

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.

"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 th...

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. Check it out!

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 tha...

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, it's a...

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 D...