The first edition of This Week in Skinning for 2011 is here. Check it out! https://www.wincustomize.com/article/403650/
Gamasutra.com has an interview with Stardock’s Jon Shafter, and this is another you definitely want to sit down and read. “ You mentioned some of the things that attracted you to Stardock, like the personality of the company and how Brad Wardell [Stardock CEO] approaches making games for the PC platform. What exactly do you mean by that? JS: The biggest thing is that Brad is the CEO and full owner of the company. So he has complete leeway to do whatever he wants. And Stardock...
Gamasutra.com has an interview with Stardock’s Jon Shafter, and this is another you definitely want to sit down and read. “ You mentioned some of the things that attracted you to Stardock, like the personality of the company and how Brad Wardell [Stardock CEO] approaches making games for the PC platform. What exactly do you mean by that? JS: The biggest thing is that Brad is the CEO and full owner of the company. So he has complete leeway to do whatever he wants. And Stardock...
This is the first edition of TWiS for 2011! We took a few weeks off for the holiday break, but are now back and ready to roll! Now for this weeks picks! Liberty IX Weather by Chasbo This is a slick weather widget based on a new WB skin by BoXXi. Only in my Dreams by DEVJIT A beautiful wallpaper with great use ...
Back in November we launched a new gallery at WinCustomize for WindowBlinds Textures. In case you aren’t aware, WindowBlinds 7 allows you to create and use custom textures in WindowBlinds skin so you can customize your desktop theme even more. Here is a tutorial showing you how . We only have a few submissions in this gallery, so if you have some textures come share them with the rest of WinCustomize. https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds_textures
We are excited to announce our 2nd Elemental: War of Magic contest which starts today! We head great success with the “Design a Spell” contest, so we are taking it to the next step with the “Design a Quest” contest. If you are familiar with the previous contest, then the premise is basically the same except this time we are looking for user submitted quests. If you have a cool idea for a quest that you think would be a great addition to Elemental, then come post your quest idea ...
We are excited to announce our 2nd Elemental: War of Magic contest which starts today! We head great success with the “Design a Spell” contest, so we are taking it to the next step with the “Design a Quest” contest. If you are familiar with the previous contest, then the premise is basically the same except this time we are looking for user submitted quests. If you have a cool idea for a quest that you think would be a great addition to Elemental, then come post your quest idea ...
If you didn't watch the CES keynote last night, they have posted the replay. There are some really cool things shown off.
The official news came out today that Jon Shafer is joining Stardock to work on Elemental: War of Magic and other future projects. Shacknews.com has a great interview posted with Jon that I recommend you check out. Shack: With Derek Paxton leading continuing development on Elemental: War of Magic, what will your responsibilities be on the project? Jon Shafer: I'll be playing the game a lot, providing design ideas and feedback to producer Derek Paxton and the rest of the...
The official news came out today that Jon Shafer is joining Stardock to work on Elemental: War of Magic and other future projects. Shacknews.com has a great interview posted with Jon that I recommend you check out. Shack: With Derek Paxton leading continuing development on Elemental: War of Magic, what will your responsibilities be on the project? Jon Shafer: I'll be playing the game a lot, providing design ideas and feedback to producer Derek Paxton and the rest of the...
Stardock Entertainment, independent publisher of games including Sins of a Solar Empire , Demigod and Elemental: War of Magic has hired Civilization V Lead Designer Jon Shafer to help lead the studio’s design and modding efforts. Shafer will bring additional modding expertise to the recently launched Elemental: War of Magic and will take the lead in designing the next as-of-yet unannounced Stardock title. Shafer hails from Firaxis where he was lead designer and principal gameplay ...
Stardock Entertainment, independent publisher of games including Sins of a Solar Empire , Demigod and Elemental: War of Magic has hired Civilization V Lead Designer Jon Shafer to help lead the studio’s design and modding efforts. Shafer will bring additional modding expertise to the recently launched Elemental: War of Magic and will take the lead in designing the next as-of-yet unannounced Stardock title. Shafer hails from Firaxis where he was lead designer and principal gameplay ...
CES is kicking off today with a keynote from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Rumors are circulating that he will “tease” Windows 8, and talk more about tablet technology in keynote – among other things. The keynote is taking place at 9:30pm EST, and a live feed will be available for viewing. Keynote can be viewed here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ces/
Amazon has released a Kindle app for Windows Phone 7. Available already for most other mobile platforms it didn’t take Amazon too long to bring it over to WP7. The WP7 app allows you to read all the books available in the Kindle store, syncing across devices, integrated shopping, and more. Download from Zune Marketplace.
Stardock Entertainment continues to bolster its development staff as renowned fantasy and science fiction writer/editor Dave Stern joins Stardock to oversee creative storytelling and lore implementation in all future projects, including the recently launched Elemental: War of Magic . Stern, author of numerous books including the novelizations of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Blair Witch Project and former editor of Pocket Books Star Trek and science fiction...