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The Political Machine 2012 Hits The Campaign Trail
Do you have what it takes to be president? Today Stardock announced the 2012 edition of its popular political strategy game, The Political Machine. Play as more than 20 candidates including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or create your own candidate from scratch. Players take to the campaign trail against a computer controlled opponent or a human challenger over the Internet. The goal: win the hearts and minds of America’s voters to achieve victory in ...
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Michigan Journal Takes a Look at TPM 2008
The Michigan Journal, student newspaper of the University of Michigan, takes a look at The Political Machine 2008. It's a really great review of the game, and here is a quick excerpt: " Political junkies will appreciate the realism and challenge of this game. It mimics the difficulties of winning a national election pretty closely. The Web site where you can download this game has political discussion boards for the players to hammer out the ideal of their party together, adding...
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Stardock 2008 Report
Like most companies, Stardock puts together an internal business plan for setting up goals and objectives for the company for the forthcoming year (Stardock's fiscal year begins its execution phase every October 1). As part of this business plan is an appendix that acts as a critical analysis of what Stardock customers can expect to see and what challenges the company faces to better satisfy customer expectations. For this year, it has been decided to make this appendix avail...
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Stardock's Impulse Gets an Update
Have you been to Impulsedriven.com in awhile? Well if you have, you'll notice that we've done some redecorating to not only the website but the store itself. We've made the website much more informational with the homepage nowadding a featured title section highlighting a major software or game,a latest news section showing off recent releases, and a recentarticles section authored by people from the Impulse community. You'llalso find the navigation to be a lot more friendly with the lefth...
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G4TV: Stardock Introduces the Gamers Bill of Rights
Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell, introduces and explains the “ Gamer’s Bill of Rights ” to G4TV. The Gamer’s Bill of Rights is: “a statement of principles that it hopes will encourage the PC game industry to adopt standards that are more supportive of PC gamers. The document contains 10 specific "rights" that video game enthusiasts can expect from Stardock as an independent developer and publisher that it hopes that other publishers will embrace.” ...
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Announcing 'Super Tuesdays!' - Play VS. Stardock!!!
Get your fancy shoes shined up and your speeches practiced...it's time to take your game to the big leauges with PM2008: Super Tuesdays ! Starting Tuesday, September 23rd, the team at Stardock will be online for some 1 on 1 presidental campaigning. Join us us until the election from 6pm - 8pm EST to test your political metal. You thought Washington was tough?! He's go nothing on the guys that actually programmed the game. They'll be bringing the votes AND the hurt....
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The Political Machine Express - A Free Strategy for the Campaign Season
Stardock, the company behind such games as Galactic Civilizations, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Demigod has made available The Political Machine Express. This free strategy game puts players in the role of the campaign manager of either John McCain or Barack Obama in a quest to win the white house. Players play on the electoral map of the United States with the goal to gain the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election. Players get 21 weeks (approximately the time candidates have betwe...
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The Political Machine 2008 v1.5 Update Now Available!
Stardock has updated its popular PC strategy game, The Political Machine to include the new Vice Presidential candidates along with adding a host of compelling new features. The Political Machine puts players in the role of a Presidential candidate on the campaign trail making speeches, buying ads, hiring spin doctors and consultants, raising money, and going on cable news shows. The Political Machine v1.5 includes vastly enhanced multiplayer features including supporting match-making vi...
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PM2008 - Multiplayer Nights?
Once 1.5 is released, and multiplayer get's easier to manage (the Impulse intergration is nice ), I'd like to come up with a night where people can come on and KNOW there are going to be other players online. So which night would it be? My best nights would be Monday, Tuesday, or Wedensday. End of the week is much too hectic. Plus then we could call the nights 'Political Machine Mondays', 'Super Tuesdays' or 'Washington Wedensdays'. ...perhaps something better for Wedensdays
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