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PoliticalMachine.com launched in Press Room Stardock Forums

Stardock has launched PoliticalMachine.com. The new website is designed with the dual purpose of being the home page for Stardock''s upcoming strategy game, The Political Machine as well as a neutral political discussion/debate site for users interested in discussing politics, current events, etc. The new site makes use of content from Stardock''s new JoeUser.com blog site (visit JoeUser.com to get your own free blog). Articles submitted under the category of "Politics" automatically

Welcome to PoliticalMachine.com !!! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Welcome to PoliticalMachine.com. Please excuse the dust as we are still in development. But, if you are into politics and you enjoy playing games, then you have come to the right place. Not only can you jump right into debates of hot political topics, but, we are also developing the game “Political Machine”, where you will be able to jump right into the hot seat and run for president. Stay tuned to PoliticalMachine.com for more details in the up and coming weeks!

IconDeveloper 1.0 released! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Stardock has released Icon Developer 1.0. IconDeveloper is an icon creation program designed with mainstream users in mind. It makes it incredibly easy to create icons. While other icon editing programs come with their own built in editors, IconDeveloper assumes that people making icons are going to either make their images in Photoshop or take an existing image (PNG, JPG, etc.) to turn into an icon. As a result it only takes a few steps to take a graphic file and turn it into an icon

IconPackager 2.5 released in Press Room Stardock Forums

IconPackager is a program that allows you to change all your Windows icons in a single click by applying "packages" of icons. There are hundreds of icon packages available on the Internet including on WinCustomize.com. It is the world's leading program for changing your Windows icons. IconPackager 2.5 has a host of new, useful features including: A more thorough preview window for showing all the major icons in a selected icon package Full integration with IconDeve

BootSkin Release Candidate Available! in Press Room Stardock Forums

BootSkin is a free program that lets you change the boot screen on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Users can download new bootscreens at websites such as WinCustomize.com, deviantART, Skinbase, and elsewhere. Stardock BootSkin 1.0 is expected to be out within the next week. This is the final release candidate to resolve any potential problems remaining. This version has boot previews and a smoother progress load animation than previous versions. BootSkin''s home page is www.boots

Merry Christmas! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you have a great day!

Gamespy: Galactic Civiliziations is TB Strategy Game of the year! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Gamespy has awarded Stardock''s Galactic Civilizations as 2003 Game of the year in the category of turn based strategy. From the award page at Gamespy: "Galactic Civilizations was a labor of love for Brad Wardell of Stardock Systems (who continues to update the game with free expansions). Thank goodness for that, because GalCiv rescued turn-based strategy gamers from a pretty mediocre year with one of the best "4X" games on the market. In GalCiv, players start with one small planet

SkinStudio version 4 released! in Press Room Stardock Forums

SkinStudio is the world''s most powerful skin creation tool. It has hundreds of features that are unique to it that make it possible for non-techies to be able to create skins for various popular skinnable programs including WindowBlinds and Microsoft''s Media Player. When SkinStudio 4 is loaded, a user is given the option to create a visual style (change the GUI of Windows itself), Convert .Msstyles into Stardock''s new Universal Skin Format (USF) which can then be made into a Windows

WindowBlinds 4.2 released! in Press Room Stardock Forums

WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to "skin" the Windows GUI (title bars, the Start bar, push buttons, radio buttons, sliders, scrollbars, etc.) by applying "visual styles". Version 4.2 runs on Windows XP, Windows 2000. The enhanced registered version also runs on Windows 98 and Windows ME. There are thousands of visual styles to choose from available for download on sites such as WinCustomize.com, deviantART, Skinbase, Customize.org, ArtUpRoar, and elsewhere. New

Free game: Northpole Showdown! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Stardock has released a free holiday game called Northpole Showdown. It''s an arcade game where you must rescue Santa from a horde of out of control toy making robots! It''s a ton of fun. Check it out.

Download the Holiday Desktop! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Ho ho ho from Stardock! Give your desktop the holiday spirit with Stardock''s Holiday Desktop. Holiday Desktop is a special run-time version of Stardock''s popular Object Desktop suite of applications that can change the Windows desktop to match the season. If you have Object Desktop already, it will just install the actual skins, themes, icons, and wallpapers you need. The Holiday Desktop provides a new wallpaper, a Chirstmas Time visual style, a holiday calendar, all new ico

WindowBlinds 4 support for Windows 98, ME now available in Press Room Stardock Forums

Stardock has released a new enhanced version of WindowBlinds 4 that supports Windows 98 and ME (Windows XP and Windows 2000 were already supported). WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to totally skin Windows. Title bars, push buttons, radio buttons, scrollbars, the Start bar, and a whole host of other pieces are all skinned by WindowBlinds. The enhanced version of WindowBlinds is $19.95 or can be purchased as part of Stardock''s Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancem

Christmas Time Visual Style Suite Released in Press Room Stardock Forums

Get your Windows GUI into the seasonal spirit with the Christmas Time visual style. You''ll need WindowBlinds (www.windowblinds.net).

Longhorn Visual Style now available in Press Room Stardock Forums

Want your Windows system to look like the latest Microsoft build of the next version of Windows? Now you can do it with WindowBlinds!

ObjectDock 1.0 released! in Press Room Stardock Forums

Stardock has released ObjectDock 1.0 today. ObjectDock is a freeware program that combines program launching and task management into a single "dock" that does it with style. ObjectDock allows for dock items to react in many different ways to mouse overs and supports "Docklets" which can add new functionality to the dock. New in ObjectDock 1.0 over the previous beta: 1) Mormegil''s LaST images and default dock included 2) Added "Load ObjectDock on startup" option 3)

Drengin.net home page revamped in Press Room Stardock Forums

Stardock has re-designed the website for Drengin.net. Drengin.net is Stardock''s gaming network in which people who purchase it get all of Stardock''s games that already exist plus what is created for 18 months after purchase. Drengin.net includes such games as Galactic Civilizations, The Corporate Machine, LightWeight Ninja, Stellar Frontier and more. New games such as The Political Machine will be coming out for it next year and the upcoming expansion pack, Galactic Civilizations: Al

Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy is coming in Press Room Stardock Forums

Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy in development New Add-on brings new features, options to popular strategy game For Immediate Release: LIVONIA, MI (November 19, 2003) – Independent game studio, Stardock Entertainment, announced the first premium expansion pack for its popular space-based strategy game Galactic Civilizations today. The new add-on, called Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy introduces a host of new features to the award-winning game and del

DesktopX Pro released! in Press Room Stardock Forums

For Immediate Release: DesktopX Pro allows developers to create and distribute desktop objects as stand alone programs Stardock releases DesktopX 2.0 Professional LIVONIA, MI (November 19, 2003) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released DesktopX Professional today. DesktopX is a program that allows users and developers to create powerful desktop objects that can perform a variety of tasks. These objects can be combined together to build entire desktops or be used on t

Galactic Civilizations 1.12 available in Press Room Stardock Forums

GalCiv 1.12 is now available on Stardock Central. The new version has a lot of game tweaks and bug fixes. Key among the changes: 1) The computer AI is significantly more intelligent at the higher levels (As top players are already noticing). These improvements were done by improving AI strategies. 2) Fixed some exploits in the game such as the infamous "1 influence point" bribe. 3) Combat transports are much tougher when in free space but very weak when orbit

DesktopX User Manual On-line in Press Room Stardock Forums

The full DesktopX User Manual is now available as a PDF manual (Adobe Acrobat). The manual is over 50 pages long and gives users a thorough explanation of how DesktopX works, how to create things with it, and how you can put it to use. DesktopX is part of Object Desktop. Stardock is in the process of creating PDF manuals of all the major components of Object Desktop in preparation for the Object Destop 2004 CD snapshot (which will be available to all Object Desktop users).

DesktopX Media Guide Available in Press Room Stardock Forums

Every wanted to put cool objects and widgets on your desktop? How about make some yourself? You can do this and much more with DesktopX, a program that makes it easy for end users to completely redesign their desktops to look, feel, and function however they want. The Media Guide goes over what is possible to do with DesktopX. DesktopX 2 is a free download at <img src="http://sdcentral.stardock.com/images/icons/url.gif" border=0 ALT="http:/

Change your boot screen with BootSkin in Press Room Stardock Forums

BootSkin is a new program that lets you safely change the boot screen of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This freeware program allows you to download boot screens in .bootskin format from a variety of websites including WinCustomize.com. Beta 1 is now available of BootSkin. The new version supports changing the boot screen on Windows 2000 as well as brings up the boot screen faster on Windows XP.

IconDeveloper website created in Press Room Stardock Forums

IconDeveloper is a new program that is part of Object Desktop that makes it incredibly easy to create your own Windows icons. All those .PNG files (or JPG or BMP, etc.) can quickly be turned into standard Windows icons of various sizes. Visit the IconDeveloper home page to learn more about it. IconDeveloper is expected to go 1.0 before the end of the month.

Stardock''s 10th birthday in Press Room Stardock Forums

With the passing of October 2003, Stardock is now 10 years old from the date of its incorporation back in October 1993. A photo album history can be viewed here: Link <BR

SkinStudio 4 beta 2 released in Press Room Stardock Forums

SkinStudio version 4 beta 2 available SkinStudio is a program that allows users to design their own visual styles for use with Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It supports a host of different “skinning” formats including WindowBlinds UIS1, UIS2, ObjectBar, and the importation of MSStyles visual styles. SkinStudio 4 Professional is also the first and only program that enables skinners to visually create Windows Media Player skins. Beta 2 of SkinStudio 4 is now available a