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MSNBC Interview About The Political Machine 2008
MSNBC's David Shuster talks with Brad Wardell about the release of The Political Machine 2008. It's a quick interview, but Brad gives some insight on some possible battleground states, and just some great info about The Political Machine 2008. Link: MSNBC Video
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Pre-Order availability
For those of you who pre-ordered, the batch job for sending out emails was quicker than the batch job for activating said serials. So some users received a "account expired" message. We're about to send out a second email job to let people know that the activation has completed. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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The Political Machine released!
PLYMOUTH, MI – June 17, 2008 – Today Stardock ( www.stardock.com ) released The Political Machine 2008, the highly anticipated follow-up to its 2004 smash hit. The Political Machine 2008 is a PC game that puts players in control of the 2008 presidential campaign. Play as the campaign manager for a host of candidates including Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, historical candidates or design one from scratch. The game is available at major U.S. retail outlets as well as directly fr...
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GameSpy Previews TPM08
GameSpy's Allen Rausch recently took a near-final version of The Political Machine 2008 for a spin and put together a very detailed preview of the game. View: [ GameSpy Preview ]
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Screenshots from the beta
Greetings! The Political Machine 2008 is nearly done. Originally, we intended to have a public beta as we do with all our other games. Unfortunately, to make our June 17th retail release, we have to go gold in basically a week which cut the time down on when we'd have a public beta. But in the meantime, here are some screenshots! I will also put together a guided tour of the 2008 edition. It's just so much better in every way. I'm just finishing up a...
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Gamespot Preview
Gamespot is previewing The Political Machine 2008. It also includes a lengthy Q&A session with yours truly in going over the various aspects of our upcoming PC strategy game set for launch on June 17th. View: [Gamespot Preview]
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The issues of The Political Machine
Tonight (4:28am so technically this morning) I'm hanging out on the GalCiv II forums between compiles. The above is the issue editor for The Political Machine 2008. In it, I must go through every conceivable issue, write a description and then put in the values. The values on position are between -10 (strongly against) and positive 10 (strongly in favor). The other variable (new in this version) is how important the issue is which is on a scale from 1 to 10. I also have th...
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The Political Machine on Twitter
Twitter has really become one of the most popular "social network" sites around today. It's different than something like Facebook, as this is a way to connect with friends and others, and basically just make short posts (140 characters) about what you are doing, your thoughts, work, etc. Since the political season is heating up even more, and politics is a hot topic on Twitter, we have created our own account for The Political Machine. It will be regularly updated with links and...
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