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WindowBlinds 4.4 released
WindowBlinds 4.4 is now available for public download. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to completely customize their Windows user GUI. That includes their title bars, push buttons, Start bar, toolbar icons, radio buttons, progress animations and nearly every other part of the Windows GUI. WindowBlinds is the most popular desktop enhancement program of all time according to CNET with over 7 MILLION downloads from CNET Download.com. It is used by companies such as Microsoft, Sony...
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The Political Machine v1.02 preview
We're putting the final tweaks on v1.02 of The Political Machine. Amongst the tweaks and changes come in the endorsement area. Based on player feedback, we've decided to make conservative special interest groups harder to win the support of if you're a Democrat and vice versa if you're a Republican with the liberal special interest groups. Most of our energy has been trying to make sure the game works on the widest variety of hardware. The game should run fine on pretty much an...
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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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JoeUser blogging community officially launched
Stardock Launches JoeUser.com Blog Community New website combines blogging and magazine features Livonia MI (September 20, 2004) – After a year of development and testing, the new blog community JoeUser.com has been officially launched. JoeUser.com is a website that allows individuals to sign up for free web pages that include tools for easily adding user-created articles to their pages (blogs). Blogging, short for web logs, has grown in popularity as users from around the world ...
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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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