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The Political Machine 2008 officially announced
PLYMOUTH, MI - March 26, 2008 - Do you have what it takes to be the president? Today Stardock Entertainment announced The Political Machine 2008, a new 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. Players then choose their campaign battlegrounds and are off on the campaign trail to face a host of challenges i...
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Some of the first screenshots have arrived
Here are some screen shots of our current internal build of The Political Machine... Players can visually design every aspect of their candidate. The candidates in the game aren't "modeled". We just provide the pieces and the rest goes from there. All candidates are bobble-headed in order to make them more like real-life politicians. You can go on cable TV shows and answer the tough questions which can affect your standing. You're not just a player,...
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Release Schedule Announced
Our target release date is June 17, 2008 -- give or take a few days based on retail needs. Below is our tentative schedule: Beta 1: April 24. All users who pre-order the game will be given access to it. Beta 2: May 8. All users who pre-order the game will be given access to it. Release: June 17th-ish. Stay tuned!
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The Political Machine prediction closely mirrors actual results
In early October using tweaked issues that will be further adjusted in v1.1 coming out later, The Political Machine correctly predicted 47 of the 50 states in this year's election. No polling of candidates. All based on its issue model. So why didn't it get all 50? The Political Machine's turn out model can't predict the actual turn out. It is based on historical norms. In this election, Republican turn-out was significantly higher than in any previously recorded election resulting in Bush vi...
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Round-up of political based PC games
Slate has a great round-up of all the political strategy games for this campaign season. We are pleased to say that our own game, The Political Machine, was ranked as the best of the group. Read the whole story the whole thing and to check out the other games. If you''re a political junkie, you may want to try out these other games as well. http://slate.msn.com/id/2108292/
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The Politics of Gaming
Check out this article over at Gamespy that goes through the various US presidential based games and what their backgrounds are. The article is located here: http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/559/559987p1.html
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Ohio, Iowa going to determine outcome of election
Polls are interesting things but statistical analysis is my thing. And based on our models in The Political Machine, Kerry is going to squeak out a victory in November barring a sudden change in events. But the Florida of 2004 may be where you least expect it - Iowa. Ohio and Iowa are going to be the key states this time. But it is Iowa that people should be keeping an eye on even more so than Ohio or Florida. It has a relatively low population which creates all kinds of opportunity fo...
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The Political Machine Post Mortem
If you are interested in game development, here is an inside scoop on how The Political Machine was made and what went right and wrong on it. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041011/wardell_01.shtml
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The Political Machine 1.02 is available
The official 1.02 patch is now available for download from Ubisoft (for CD orders) or via Stardock Central if you preordered or have TotalGaming.net from Stardock. If you have previously had Safedisc issues and contacted [email protected] for those, please followup on those again now. This update will go over 1.01 or the 1.0 retail CD release. https://www.politicalmachine.com/Download_Update.asp 1.02 Update ----------- Changes: Endorsement costs ta...
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