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Xpand Rally Crosses the Finish Line at TotalGaming.net in TGN News JoeUser Forums

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

Supreme Ruler 2010 Comes to TotalGaming.net in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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

Supreme Ruler 2010 Comes to TotalGaming.net in TGN News JoeUser Forums

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

Apogee Icons released! in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Famed icon artist Paul Boyer (Mormegil) has completed his latest icon masterpiece. And holy cow is the final version incredible! The Apogee premium icon suite includes over 200 unique icons in 15 different color variations.&nbsp Each icon supports every major (and minor) ico

Daemonica Storms Onto TotalGaming.net in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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 mak

Daemonica Storms Onto TotalGaming.net in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Plymouth, MI- (March 28, 2005) – Stardock Entertainment is proud to announce the release of Meridian 4’s new adventure game, Daemonica, on theTotalGaming.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

WindowBlinds reaches 10 million download mark! in TGN News JoeUser Forums

March&nbsp28, 2006 &nbspWindowBlinds has broken the 10 million download mark on CNET's popular Download.com website.&nbsp Last week, WindowBlinds 5.01 was released and continued its trend as being the world's most popular way to customize the look and feel of the Windows GUI. WindowBlinds is a program that enab

WindowBlinds 5.01 Released in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 5.01.&nbsp WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to completely change the look and feel of Microsoft Windows.&nbsp With it, users can apply &quotskins&quot that change the existing Windows graphical user interface (GUI)

Galactic Civilizations II released! in TGN News JoeUser Forums

February 21, 2006 Software developer Stardock Entertainment released the sequel to its award-winning PC strategy game, Galactic Civilizations today.&nbsp 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 civ

Galactic Civilizations II released! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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

PowerUser:TV: Episode 28 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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.

Galactic Civilizations: Videos in action in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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

Galactic Civilizations: Videos in action in TGN News JoeUser Forums

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

TopWare Interactive Delivers Games via TotalGaming.net in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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,

TopWare Interactive Delivers Games via TotalGaming.net in TGN News JoeUser Forums

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,

Galactic Civilizations II: Human Drengin Wars in TGN News JoeUser Forums

We're in the final stages of Galactic Civilizations II's development cycle. If you want to see some of the fine tuning, check out the Developer Journals. Tonight we log how we fine tune the computer AI in various ways. Galactic Civilizations II will be available at most retailers at the end of February.

Woize International Chooses DirectSkin From Stardock in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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 DirectSki

ETROM: The Astral Essence Coming to TotalGaming.net in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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 TotalGa

ETROM: The Astral Essence Coming to TotalGaming.net in TGN News JoeUser Forums

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 TotalGa

Betanews Holiday Gift Guide! in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Betanews has put up their annual Holiday Gift Guide.&nbsp The Betanews Holiday Gift Guide is amongst the best gift guides on the net with recommendations to satisfy nearly any power user.&nbsp With recommendations ranging from the BeyondTV to Nokia's Internet Tablet, it's got it

Desktop Pet released! in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Just in time for Christmas, Stardock has released the Desktop Pet.&nbsp The Desktop Pet lives on your Windows XP desktop. He will interact with various included desktop objects. A sophisticated artificial intelligence

Free Christmas games! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

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.

WindowBlinds 5 released in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Stardock has released WindowBlinds 5 to the public today.&nbsp WindowBlinds allows users to completely alter the look and feel of the Windows interface by applying visual styles (skins) to title bars, buttons, the Start bar, borders and more. Consumers customize nearly everything else in their environments: their cars, homes, clothing and cell phones are based on their personal prefer

The State of Stardock 2005 in TGN News JoeUser Forums

In a couple of weeks Stardock will be celebrating the 6th anniversary of the official release of Object Desktop for Windows.&nbsp And between now and the end of January, there will be a lot of updates and changes we hope.&nbsp&nbsp - Brad Here's a summary: <TABLE id=table1 width="100%" border=0

The Skinning Primer in TGN News JoeUser Forums

Stardock's Brad Wardell has gone through nearly every major Windows customization program to put together a comprehensive guide to how to customize your Windows PC. Outside computers, people customize nearly everything about their lives to match their own needs and tastes. Yet computers, particularly Windows desktops, are amazingly uniform despite the fact people spend long hours in front of them. Microsoft has traditionally limited the amount of customization options that come with