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May Political Machine Prediction: Kerry defeats Bush
We're still tweaking the algorithms for The Political Machine and for what it's worth, we have put together our first official model prediction of this November's election based on our current variables (which are obviously subject to change). Bush loses to Kerry by between 20 to 40 electoral votes. There are a few reasons we're predicting this. First of all, there really aren't that many toss-up states. The media has states like Michigan and Wisconsin and Washington State and Oregon a...
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Poltical Machine beta 2A available (0.85)
A new build is available. In the short time we've had sicne the last beta, we've tried to address as much of the feedback as we can. Please tell us if we're on the right direction and which big trouble spots you see that we need to address. Thanks!
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Blog Navigator 0.90 released!
Blog Navigator is a fully featured Internet article reader that reads in RSS feeds (most major sites have RSS feeds these days) and displays them in a clean interface to make it very easy and fast to read through tons of news. There are other RSS readers out there already, but Blog Navigator has a few features that, when combined, make it really stand out: 1) It automatically pre-fetches articles. That is, it caches articles you haven't read yet so that when you get to them, it's already t...
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Blog Navigator 0.90 released!
Blog Navigator is a fully featured Internet article reader that reads in RSS feeds (most major sites have RSS feeds these days) and displays them in a clean interface to make it very easy and fast to read through tons of news.There are other RSS readers out there already, but Blog Navigator has a few features that, when combined, make it really stand out:1) It automatically pre-fetches articles. That is, it caches articles you haven't read yet so that when you get to them, it's already there. An...
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We need more feedback
We are really looking for more feedback on the beta. We know hundreds of you have the beta, but we're not getting a lot of feedback. Especially in specifics. We will be letting those who pre-ordered the game on its own (as opposed to getting Drengin) start getting it next week. But in the meantime, we really need your help in this. The game is going gold and we're in crunch time now (the amount we can do in 4 weeks you'll be amazed by). What things would you like to see that can be ...
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Political Machine Beta 2 available
A new beta of The Political Machine is available for Drengin.net subscribers via Stardock Central. You will need to delete your *.DDS files to make use of the new graphics (in the \gfx graphics). Multiplayer works! Join #PolMachine on Stardock Central's chat to get games together. Let us know what problems you run into in the game forum on PoliticalMachine.com (or in this news item). New features such as exit polling, candidate creation, and lots of other goodies are now in. Have fun!
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Political Machine Beta 1 available
If you have a subscription to Drengin.net, you can now download the first public beta of Stardock''s new strategy game, The Political Machine. This beta is just that - a beta. It is not representative of what the final game will be like and has a great number of limitations. Some key notes: 1) It currently will only run on Windows XP. We expect to have that fixed next week. 2) The multiplayer is buggy (it''ll crash if either player goes on TV or uses political operatives) 3) You MUST ...
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