One of the top prizes in the 2008 GUI Championships is a Wacom Cintiq 12WX. This thing is just awesome, and unfortunately I wasn’t the one who had the opportunity to try it out. However, the awesome Art Team at Stardock was able to spend some time with it, and Zoomba wrote up a great hands-on article about the Cintiq. Link: Hands-on with the Wacom Cintiq 12WX
The winners in the Most Usable category in the 2008 GUI Championships have been announced! This includes Most Usable WindowBlinds skins and Most Usable Icon Packages. Click the links below to see the winners! Congrats to all! Most Usable WindowBlinds Winners Most Usable Icon Package Winners
GameSpy.com has started publishing their 2008 Game of the Year Awards, and Sins of a Solar Empire is in the top 10 PC games of 2008! “The concept of marrying the small-scale moment-to-moment strategizing of an RTS to the big-picture conquer-the-universe gameplay of a classic "4X" would seem ridiculous. It took the brilliant insight of new developer Ironclad Games to make the impossible possible with its brilliant Sins of a Solar Empire. Sins casts players as wannabe galactic ...
I talked about how much I enjoy using Paint Shop Pro from Corel, but they also make some other cool graphics applications as well. Another one that comes to mind is Painter X . The easiest way for me to describe Painter X is that it is a digital painting studio, with the ability to replicate traditional painting at incredible levels. Painter has always been known to be the top solution for creating digital art, and Painter X improves on that with additions such as the RealBrist...
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor has taken the Best Expansion award in IGN’s 2008 Best of 2008 awards in the PC category! View the award here: http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/19.html Thanks to all our supporters for another great year!
IGN has announced their winners for the best PC games of 2008 and Sins of a Solar Empire has earned the top honor as the Best Game of 2008! View the award here: http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/22.html IGN also gave Sins the top honor in the following categories: Best Strategy Game Best New IP Most Innovative Design Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor also won Best Expansion! http://bestof.ign.com/2008/pc/19.html A huge thanks to all of our f...
Gamasutra.com has their top 5 PC games for 2008, and Sins of a Solar Empire is on that list! This covers the top 5 games out of 15 "standout" titles from the year. "One of the year's great success stories was this space strategy title from Vancouver-based Ironclad Games, which put the small developer on the map and scored another hit for its increasingly influential publisher Stardock. Ostensibly a member of the "4X" genre of domination-oriented titles, Sins ...
Gamasutra.com has their top 5 PC games for 2008, and Sins of a Solar Empire is on that list! This covers the top 5 games out of 15 "standout" titles from the year. "One of the year's great success stories was this space strategy title from Vancouver-based Ironclad Games, which put the small developer on the map and scored another hit for its increasingly influential publisher Stardock. Ostensibly a member of the "4X" genre of domination-oriented titles, Sins of a Solar Empire, with its ex...
Todays 'Find the Stardog' contest has started. We made a few changes to give it more of a challenge, and w e will be selecting the winner from a random drawing out of the people who do manage to find Stardog. Go find'em! https://www.stardock.com/stardog/
GameSpy.com has started publishing their 2008 Game of the Year Awards, and today they start off with the PC category. Both Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor were in the top 10! It’s especially exciting as Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor won for 2008 PC Strategy Game of the Year! “Thus the genocidal Korath can quickly develop weapons of mass destruction but find diplomacy difficult wh...
GameSpy.com has started publishing their 2008 Game of the Year Awards, and today they start off with the PC category. Both Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor were in the top 10! It’s especially exciting as Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor won for 2008 PC Strategy Game of the Year! “Thus the genocidal Korath can quickly develop weapons of mass destruction but find diplomacy difficult while the mercanti...
I still can’t believe the year is quickly coming to an end. With that, it’s time to get some things done to start the new year off right. I have come to call this my “End of the Year Chores”. It’s nice having a long holiday break, but I’m going to use some of that time to get these done. Some of the things I need to get done: Reformat my desktop PC. I have been putting this off for months, but it just needs to be done. Upgrade desktop PC. I’m...
The Best Overall Judging in the 2008 GUI Championships is underway, so I wanted to take a moment and show the finalist skins in the WindowBlinds category. There was an awesome display of work this time around, and I can only imagine what a job it was to pick the final skins. Check out the Top WindowBlinds Skins for the GUI Champs .
Last time we checked out some Holiday Bootskins , so this time I wanted to move on to CursorFX themes. This is one of my favorite categories for holiday skins, as some of the animations used are just incredible. To use these cursor themes, you will need CursorFX , either the free or Plus version will do.
Wave 3 of the Windows Live Essentials was released today, bringing updates to several popular applications. The Live Essentials package includes: Messenger Mail Writer Photo Gallery Movie Maker Toolbar Family Safety Office Outlook Connector Office Live Add-in Live Sync You don’t have to install everything listed here, but many of the applications are very well done, and very useful to have. Download them at http://download.liv...