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The Political Machine Available for download

You can now purchase and download The Political Machine from Stardock!  We are also working on version 1.1 of The Political Machine with updates to various campaign issues, new candidates, and more! We expect to have that out in the next couple of weeks. It will be a free update for all players of The Political Machine. To purchase and download the game immediate go here: https://www.politicalmachine.com/purchase.asp [read more]

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ATI™ Skinning Contest Begins!

ATI™ has always provided outstanding support for the PC customization community by participating in activities such as the GUI Olympics. Now ATI is offering skinners the opportunity to design the user interface for the Catalyst™ Control Center” The Catalyst Control Center was made skinnable through the integration of DirectSkin from Stardock. DirectSkin integrates easily into programs and allows software developers to use WindowBlinds technology to create new user interfaces for their produc... [read more]

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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... [read more]

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Blog Navigator 1.0 Released

LIVONIA, MI (October 29, 2004) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released Blog Navigator 1.0 today. Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs (short for “web logs”) to read and organize them. Blog Navigator works by reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a clean, easy to understand way. It includes a host of different news and blog sites for users to read through. Blog Navigator is arguably the most advanced program of its kind and it’s ... [read more]

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Blog Navigator 1.0 Released

LIVONIA, MI (October 29, 2004) — Software developer Stardock Corp. released Blog Navigator 1.0 today. Blog Navigator is a program designed to make it easy for users who enjoy reading blogs (short for “web logs”) to read and organize them. Blog Navigator works by reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a clean, easy to understand way. It includes a host of different news and blog sites for users to read through. Blog Navigator is arguably the most advanced program of its kind and it’s free... [read more]

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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/   [read more]

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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   [read more]

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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... [read more]

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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   [read more]

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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... [read more]