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NOW OUT: The Presidential Pioneers v1.01 Update for The Political Machine 2024

The Presidential Pioneers v1.01 Update brings New Candidates, Mac Support, and Game Quality Improvements Today we released a significant update for their strategy game, The Political Machine 2024. This update introduces an array of past presidential candidates, extends compatibility to macOS, and implements various bug fixes and balance adjustments. Buy Now   |  View Changelog New Faces in the Political Arena The latest update enriches the game's roster with ... [read more]

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Dev Journal #6: Candidate Call - The Political Machine 2024

Thank you for everyone who’s supported us since we released on May 2nd! Just because we released doesn’t mean the updates are over though! We have been seeing your feedback and are addressing points from it as we speak. We’d like to use this space again to show what’s coming up on our update on May 16th! First off we want to say we have heard the requests to add more candidates. In response, we have been working hard to return a handful of candidates from previous iterations back into the fra... [read more]

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Create your own political strategy with The Political Machine 2024

PLYMOUTH, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Plymouth-based developer and publisher of games and desktop software just unveiled this year’s version of a political strategy game. "The Wall Street Journal pointed out in 2016 that only Stardock and FiveThirtyEight predicted Trump would win," said Chris Kowal. And 2024 is no exception. This iteration according to Erdman delivers one of the game’s most significant updates, including political action cards. . . read the entire article here. ... [read more]

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Stardock Releases The Political Machine 2024

New political strategy game puts players in this year’s race for the White House   Buy from  Steam   | Buy from Stardock Stardock Entertainment released The Political Machine 2024 , the newest edition of its popular political strategy game series today. The game allows players to step into the shoes of presidential candidates , including Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Bill Clinton and countless other candidates from history, or create ... [read more]

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‘The Political Machine 2024’ is latest in long strategy lineage

by Lillian King   PLYMOUTH, Mich. — If you’re not happy with this year’s election polls, turn to 2024’s  The Political Machine . Out for PC on Thursday, this turn-based political strategy game from Plymouth, Mich.-based Stardock Corporation lets players choose from an array of bobbleheaded versions of real-life candidates before siccing them against each other in a duel for the presidency. “The presidential campaigns make for a perfect vid... [read more]

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Real data backs Plymouth-made presidential campaign game

by Annalise Frank   A video game created in Wayne County has had some success predicting outcomes of U.S. presidential elections, including seeing former President Trump as the winner in 2016, its makers say. The big picture:  On Thursday,   Stardock Entertainment, a 30-year-old game developer based in Plymouth, launches the 2024 election edition of  The Political Machine . The company is known for  strategy games , including Sins of a Solar Empire. How ... [read more]

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Dev Journal #5: Declaration of Independents - The Political Machine 2024

With the full release of The Political Machine 2024 on May 2nd, we’d like to use this space as an opportunity to tease what’s coming up on release! We understand we’ve been missing a key player in this presidential election cycle and we wanted to be sure he was in for release. We’ll be introducing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the fray! His introduction also comes with a new deck that we’re introducing - the Independent deck! Without revealing too much, some of the new cards introduced i... [read more]

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Dev Journal #4: What's The Issue? - The Political Machine 2024

The Political Machine launches May 2, 2024 The past couple weeks we’ve been talking through the major features introduced for The Political Machine 2024. With all the new major features covered, we wanted to now highlight an important part of the process in developing this series every 4 years, issue updates! First we figure out nationally what are the generalized current top issues as a basis of understanding. We do this by looking at a good number of national research polls and news ou... [read more]

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Dev Journal #3: Open to Debate - The Political Machine 2024

In The Political Machine 2024, we wanted to make a feature to focus on one of the highlights of the presidential election cycle, debates! Presidential debates are televised events where candidates vying for the presidency discuss their stance on policies and engage in discourse. The selection of states for debates typically considers factors such as their political importance, demographics, and geographic spread to ensure broad representation and impact. I am playing as Marianne Williamso... [read more]

Stardock Entertainment Announcements

Crains Detroit Business Interviews Stardock

'We're the most famous company you've never heard of': A conversation with Michigan's oldest video game developer By Anna Fifelski Brad Wardell, 52, founded Stardock Corp. in 1991 as an undergraduate student at Western Michigan University. Decades later, it is the largest software and video game development company in Michigan. Later this year, Stardock will release the fourth version of its simulation game, The Political Machine, as well as an expansion for Galactic C... [read more]