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Computer Gaming World: Editor's Choice Award
The first major PC publication review of The Political Machine has come out - Computer Gaming World's 4.5 star review and an editor's choice award. We are very excited and pleased about this. As you can imagine, trying to create a political strategy game that has the right balance of realism and fun and put it together into a $20 package that has very high production values still was really a challenge. But one that we enjoyed immensely and hope you have been enjoying as well. Make sure yo...
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...About the developer: Stardock
The Political Machine is published by Ubi Soft, one of the world's premiere game publishers. But the game was designed and developed by Stardock ( www.stardock.com ). Stardock came up with the idea for The Political Machine back in 2000 during the Florida debacle. Realizing that the country was split evenly, a strategy game idea was born. Stardock's last game, Galactic Civilizations , won numerous awards including best turn based strategy game and editor's choice awards from Com...
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Political Blogging
Next week will mark the official launch of JoeUser.com, arguably the world's fastest growing blogging community on the Internet. On JoeUser.com, you can create your own free blog site and post articles on any topic you can imagine. Articles in the politics category gets syndicated out to sites like this one for instance. Visit https://www.joeuser.com to check out the articles written by thousands of others on-line or to create your own free blog.
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Politics Widget
If you have DesktopX installed ( www.desktopx.net ) you can run this electoral college status widget: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=34&SkinID=109
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DesktopX 2.21 released
DesktopX 2.21 has been released. DesktopX is a program that extends Windows to support true objects on the desktop. These objects are used to do everything from have "super icons" to being combined together to create "widgets" as well as building entire desktops. DesktopX is actually what Stardock used to develop the user interface in The Political Machine. With DesktopX, Stardock was able to create the actual game screens and prototype them at the same time. The finished screens...
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The Political Machine Demo released!
For those of you interested in trying out the game before you buy it, you can get a taste of what the game is like by going here: http://www.download.com/The-Political-Machine/3000-8027-10312016.html?tag=lst-0-1 Have fun!
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Reviews at Metacritic
If you want to see the reviews on The Political Machine, visit the site below to see a round-up. Very useful site btw for seeing people's views on movies, games, and more. http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/politicalmachine/
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There's also The Corporate Machine
Before there was The Political Machine there was The Corporate Machine. A real time strategy game in which you start a company and try to crush your opponents. This criticially acclaimed (ex: Gamespot review ) strategy game allows you to pick a chosen market (cars, computers, aircraft, etc.) and then puts the company in your hands as you compete against other companies (either controlled by the computer or others via the Internet) for world wide dominance. Research new technologies, ...
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Gamespy: 4 stars!
The Political Machine gets another positive review, this one from Gamespy. A very in depth look at the game on both its pros and cons. http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-political-machine/541810p1.html
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