Another premium WinCustomize Subscriber skin is now available!  Space is the latest skin to come out of the workings of what we here on Earth call Stardock Design.  Famed Astronaut, I mean skinner, MikeB314 came up with this incredible skin, and the cool start menu animation is reason alone to grab this one. If you are a current subscriber, you can download this WindowBlinds skin for free!  Just head over to the WC subscriber resources page .  It’s not too lat...

The weekend is approaching and this weeks Impulse Weekend Buys are now up!  If you don’t have Impulse installed, no worries, just head over to www.impulsedriven.com and get your free download. There are some great games on sale this week, starting at $4.95.  You can grab them early and have all weekend to play! Safecracker $9.99 $19.99 Dungeon Lords: CE $9.99 $19.99 Genesis Rising $9.99 $19.99 MotoGP 08 $29.99 $39.99 Cellbloc...

IGN Video has the latest Developers Diary video up, titled Torchbearer.  Head over to IGN Video to see the high-res version .

Remember how they were so confident in Obama before? “President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey. On average, they gave the president a mark of 59 out of 100, and although there was a broad range of marks, 42 percent of respondents graded Obama below 60. Geithner fared even worse, with an average grade of 51. Federal Reserve Chairm...

As if they already haven’t spent enough money in one month of power, they are already opening the prospects for more of this so-called “stimulus”. “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she is open to introducing a second stimulus bill, but it's too early to determine the size of such a package and the timing on another major economic measure. “We have to keep the door open to see how it goes,” Pelosi told reporters Tuesday following a House Democratic Steering a...

An update to BootSkin was released yesterday, so today I thought I would feature some favorite bootskins to get you started off right.  These skins featured today are for Windows Vista, and you can download a copy of BootSkin from the link below. https://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

If you have been following the Demigod short stories, exclusive on Voodoo Extreme, then you will be excited to know the latest has been published.  This chapter focuses on non other than ‘Regulus’. You can also catch up on the previous stories here . “If ever a place existed where the birth of a half-god might go unnoticed, it was among the aeries of the Thelara. Amorous liasons were commonplace among the frolicsome air-nymphs -- if a child should ever wonder about the ident...

We are in the process of updating IconDeveloper, and we wanted to take this opportunity to ask the community for feedback.  https://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/ Basically, what you like to see to make IconDeveloper really shine?  We would also be interested to hear if you use IconDeveloper, and reasons why or why not. We are looking for feature suggestions, but if you have bugs you want to bring to our attention, please tag it with #bug in your comment so ...

Stardock is excited to announce the release of BootSkin 1.02.  BootSkin is an application that allows users to change and create custom boot screens for Windows Vista.  Unlike Windows XP boot screens, Vista boot screens are high-resolution and high-color to give you a much higher quality image.  BootSkin is now available as a free stand-alone download, which will allow users to change their boot screen to one of many available for download on WinCustomize.com .  Boo...

Stardock is excited to announce the release of BootSkin 1.02.  BootSkin is an application that allows users to change and create custom boot screens for Windows Vista.  Unlike Windows XP boot screens, Vista boot screens are high-resolution and high-color to give you a much higher quality image.  BootSkin is now available as a free stand-alone download, which will allow users to change their boot screen to one of many available for download on WinCustomize.com .  Boo...

Tom Chick has an interview up on CrispyGamer.com with Ironclad Games’ Blair Fraser.  The interview starts off with some bits about Turtiling , and then goes into everything from mods to multiplayer regarding Sins of a Solar Empire. “Tom Chick: I just wrote about how very few real-time strategy games still have turtling . My point was that it's fallen out of favor because developers want their real-time strategy games to play faster and be more accessible and action-y. Tha...

Over the past couple of months WinCustomize has had a huge influx of ports, with the majority going to the BootSkin and LogonStudio libraries.  In case you are not familiar with what a port is, it’s basically a skin, image, etc. which was created by one person, and uploaded by another user.  For example, a wallpaper artist might give permission for someone to use their wallpapers as logons, bootskins, etc. This has been a long standing “controversial” issue, and I’m not about to ope...

It’s that time once again, where the WinCustomize moderators sit down with lots of coffee, and chose their favorite skin picks from the previous month.  This was a particularly interesting month because several of the mods just happened to pick the exact same skin. So with that, lets get on with their picks! Snowman, Erk, and elvee all picked SL1Gv2.0 by oAREAo I also have to agree that this is one cool Xion player, but as Snowman said: ”This skin totally blew me a...

Things are moving at a super fast pace, the new WinCustomize is in production, tons of skins coming in, and news popping up everywhere.  We also have some site maintenance going on since yesterday, but I wanted to drop in and post some skins that have caught my eye over the last couple of days. What have been your favorites lately?

Recently, Edge-Online had an article featured called “ The Age of Steam ”.  It takes a thorough look at the Steam platform, from beginning stages to its current form. “What started as a way of administering updates has become a delivery platform so powerful that it has threatened to render even the big publishers‭’ ‬alternatives obsolete,‭ ‬an online community so well-supported that it sets standards even for those found on consoles,‭ ‬and a no-fiddling environ...