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Ubi Soft & Stardock build The Political Machine
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 2, 2004 – Ubisoft, one of the world’s leading videogame publishers, today announced that they have signed a deal with Stardock Entertainment to publish The Political Machine , a strategy game where players take on the role of campaign manager for a presidential candidate. Players must raise money, take out advertisements, win endorsements and appear on popular TV news shows to answer tough questions about today’s most pressing issues. &nbs...
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WindowBlinds and Games
FileFront has conducted a battery of tests to determine the effects that WindowBlinds has on the performance of PC games. The results are pretty interesting and you can see them for yourselves at the FileFront site.Definitely worth checking out.
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The Political Machine Beta 4A released
Stardock has released Beta 4A of The Political Machine to its beta testers. The Political Machine is a strategy game in which players take on the role of campaign manager in the upcoming US Presidential campaign.Users can become beta testers by subscribing to Drengin.net (http://www.drengin.net). Beta 4A provides a host of bug fixes and new content as the game heads towards its "gold" date.
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Stardock Announces Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status
¡§Only companies that have demonstrated the highest levels of customer service, proven their experience and attained advanced certification receive the designation of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners,¡¨ says Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. ¡§Today, Microsoft recognizes Stardock for its skills and expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology.¡¨¡§We are very proud to have received this cert...
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Stardock Announces Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status
"Only companies that have demonstrated the highest levels of customer service, proven their experience and attained advanced certification receive the designation of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners,¨ says Allison Watson, vice president of the Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. "Today, Microsoft recognizes Stardock for its skills and expertise in providing customer satisfaction with Microsoft products and technology.¨ "We are very proud to have received this certifi...
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The Political Machine: Beta 4 available
The beta 4 series will be the last set of public betas of The Political Machine. After that, it'll be on an individual basis based on feedback and such. Hopefully this version corrects any remaining technical glitches. Just a reminder: 1) This game requires DirectX 9 2) It needs a 3D video card with typically 16 megs of RAM or more on it (so some laptops or very old machines may have problems) Remember: At this point, the game is running flawlessly in our internal compatibility l...
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Stardock TV: May 2004
This month's Stardock TV takes a look at the GUI Olympics, widget making, DirectGUI and how to do other really cool things to your Windows desktop.
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Beta 4 news, pre-orders, and release schedule...
The beta 4 series will be the last set of betas prior to release. Users who want to pre-order and beta test the stand-alone game (as opposed to Drengin.net) will only be able to do so for a short amount of time. After we go into release candidates you will have to wait until the game ships to get it. Stardock is about to sign a publishing deal with a major retail publisher which will affect the release date. We expect to go gold near the end of this month but general availability ...
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