This year we had a Christmas Winky challenge to allow members to create their own version of a holiday themed version of our mascot. We had some fantastic entries, and this will for sure be a reoccurring challenge. User voting commenced for the 16 final entries, and our team of WinCustomize moderators voted on the final 5. Now for the winners! Top pick was for #6 from Libardo. Runner-up was #4 from 2of3. Congrats to both of them, and honorable mention...
I’m seeing and hearing from tons of new users, many of which are completely new to the world of skinning. It’s great to see new faces around, but I also see some of these users not knowing where to start, or how exactly to use many of the skins found on WinCustomize.com. I wanted to compile a quick list of helpful resources that will be helpful to new users in the quest to make their PC as personal as it can get. WinCustomize Wiki – The WC Wiki is a huge reposito...
The Today Show on NBC had a feature today of the top 15 “tech toys” for the holiday season , and Sins of a Solar Empire was a pick! ”More “serious” gamers looking for a bit of intergalactic gaming should look at Sins of a Solar Empire (Stardock $29.99). This game is like playing chess on the scale of “Star Wars” or “Star Trek.” Huge armadas of spaceships vie for control over vast galactic distances.” View the video ...
The Today Show on NBC had a feature today of the top 15 “tech toys” for the holiday season , and Sins of a Solar Empire was a pick! ”More “serious” gamers looking for a bit of intergalactic gaming should look at Sins of a Solar Empire (Stardock $29.99). This game is like playing chess on the scale of “Star Wars” or “Star Trek.” Huge armadas of spaceships vie for control over vast galactic distances.”
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, we are seeing more and more “best of 2008” lists comes out, and today we have Wired.com’s top 5 PC Games of 2008. Sins of a Solar Empire makes into the list at #3. “Expand, explore, exploit, exterminate. Become the master of the universe in this elaborate interstellar strategy game . "Epic" doesn't even fully encapsulate the scope of Sins of a Solar Empire. The depth of the gameplay and the customization option...
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a great weekend, and if you haven’t seen already, we had quite a few promotions, including a new master skinner over the weekend. Stop by those threads and give a big congrats to all. Otherwise, take a look at some of my favorite skin picks that came in over the weekend!
GameSpot has an exclusive interview with Mike Marr, Leader Designer on Demigod. The video is just over 5 minutes and gives a great insiders look at Demigod.
The time has come once again to promote one of our Journeyman skinners to the exclusive rank of Master Skinner on WinCustomize.com. Today’s honor goes to non-other than another DesktopX pro…. Vad_M ! Although Vad_M is highly known for his DesktopX abilities, he’s no stranger to other forms of skinning, as his gallery has everything from CursorFX themes to WindowBlinds skins. I have most of his DX Widgets and the quality and detail of work are amazing, and that definitel...
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, we are seeing more and more “best of 2008” lists comes out, and today we have Wired.com’s top 5 PC Games of 2008. Sins of a Solar Empire makes into the list at #3. “Expand, explore, exploit, exterminate. Become the master of the universe in this elaborate interstellar strategy game . "Epic" doesn't even fully encapsulate the scope of Sins of a Solar Empire. The depth of the gameplay and the customization options are am...
X-Play has announced the nominees of it’s “Best of 2008” awards which will appear on G4TV on December 9th. Both Sins of a Solar Empire , and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor were nominated for Best Strategy Game! “X-Play is proud to present its Best of 2008 Awards on Tuesday, December 9th, at 8PM ET. This sixth annual awards program will highlight the best in gaming throughout the year. ' "It seems commonplace to expect and ...
X-Play has announced the nominees of it’s “Best of 2008” awards which will appear on G4TV on December 9th. Both Sins of a Solar Empire , and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor were nominated for Best Strategy Game! “X-Play is proud to present its Best of 2008 Awards on Tuesday, December 9th, at 8PM ET. This sixth annual awards program will highlight the best in gaming throughout the year. ' "It seems commonplace to expect ...
X-Play has announced the nominees of it’s “Best of 2008” awards which will appear on G4TV on December 9th. Both Sins of a Solar Empire , and Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor were nominated for Best Strategy Game! “X-Play is proud to present its Best of 2008 Awards on Tuesday, December 9th, at 8PM ET. This sixth annual awards program will highlight the best in gaming throughout the year. ' "It seems commonplace to expect and find every year to im...
We should give a big round of applause to Zoomba, for working so hard on getting all these skins through moderation. The skins in the 2008 GUI Champs just keep rolling in, and everyday it seems we get a bunch of new, and great looking submissions. Here are just a few from the last day or so. See more at www.guichamps.com
I don’t know about you, but this week seemed very long. I thought Friday would never get here. Well anyways, the end of the week has become part of a regular feature on WinCustomize, which is This Week in Skinning. Now for this weeks picks! Calm Fields by DEVJIT One of my favorite wallpapers is now a BootSkin I can use with Vista. XMK-SM by Drill’n Boss This cursor set has a “space” theme going, and it also has so...
A couple of weeks ago we issued a challenge for someone to create a Christmas Holiday version of the WinCustomize mascot, Winky, that we can use for news postings and such. We had some fabulous entries, and now the time to vote is here! #1 – Muckyman #2 - Jouketje #3 - AzDude #4 - 2of3 #5 – nike1me #6 - Libardo #7 - sydneysiders #8 - sydneysiders #9 – sydneysiders #10 - k10w3 #11 - Libardo #12 - Hunter1942 ...