If you are a Windows 10 user, we have a great set of apps that can help you customize and enhance your user experience. The best part is, this can be done for under $5 each ! Below is a quick overview of each app and what it can do to improve your Windows 10 experience. Start10 Start10 is one of Stardock's most popular apps for Windows 10. It is an alternative Start menu that brings additional customization and functionality to the Windows 10 Start menu. If you prefer ...
Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell takes us through the history of Object Desktop and gives us a glimpse of what we can expect in 2017 with our popular suite of desktop enhancements. Check out the article here... https://forums.wincustomize.com/480274/
Microsoft is having a Windows 10 event today at 10am ET. You can watch the livestream here. http://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-event-2016/#2Ezje2dEX13dMFI8.97 Here is some info on what to expect to be announced and shown today. https://www.neowin.net/news/heres-what-to-expect---and-what-not-to-expect---from-wednesdays-windows-10--surface-event
Halloween is approaching soon and it’s always a fun time to find some skins to put on your desktop. We have quite the variety here at WinCustomize with wallpapers, WindowBlinds skin, animated wallpapers, cursor themes for CursorFX, and more. Here’s some favorites and take a look here for many more. ...
PC Gamer has an article up about 4x games and takes a look at the "major players" in the genre. Great to see Sins of a Solar Empire : Rebellion, Elemental : Fallen Enchantress, and Galactic Civilizations III on that list! http://www.pcgamer.com/best-4x-games/
We are going to have a lot more Twitch streams for Stardock games coming up. We are looking at having a stream each day for various games hosted by Stardock and from members of our community. I wanted to post our weekly schedule here, and make sure to check back for updates or additions. You can also follow our Twitch channel to be notified when a stream is live. https://www.twitch.tv/stardock Monday 2pm ET Offworld Trading Company Tuesday 2pm...
PCGamesN has some exclusive video footage and screenshots from Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation! http://www.pcgamesn.com/ashes-of-the-singularity-escalation/escalation-gameplay-trailer
PC Gamer has an article up today about Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation which is coming on November 3rd! "Escalation will expand the backstory of the Substrate, an enemy faction dedicated to the absolute annihilation of humanity, through two new campaigns that will give players the option of controlling either side. The original campaign will also be "fleshed out further based on the game's background lore, " and new maps for both single-player and multiplayer modes will be much lar...
This is a great article from PCGamesN which talks with Stardock's CEO Brad Wardell about a variety of topics. "While at college, Wardell wrote the original Galactic Civilizations - a grand space strategy game that established Stardock’s reputation in that genre. But publishers Strategy First filed for bankruptcy and he never received his royalties, instead building the company off the back of a popular OS/2 utilities package, Essentials. That series of events helped establish...
Greetings! I will try to do these overall updates at least once per season but right now once a month. ## Version 2.02 is coming ## Just checked in a bunch of optimizations for performance on bigger maps. We are also working on some UI updates to help make it more obvious how to cast the Spell of Ascension (it'll be part of the UI rather than just a spell in the spell book). ## User Manual ## We are working on an updated user manual for Rivals. If there is anythin...
Recently I showed you some of the best Autumn wallpapers you can find for your desktop on WinCustomize. This time we’ll take a look at some favorite animated wallpapers for Autumn. You can put these beautiful wallpapers on your Windows desktop using DeskScapes. You can find out more about DeskScapes here . Autumn forest stream Autumn Sunsetlake Autumn Orange Fall leaves &n...
Ever since Windows 8 came out with the missing Start menu, Start8 has been a very popular Stardock app because it brought users back to Start menu they were familiar with. Even when the Start menu eventually returned, Start8 remained popular since it still offered Windows users a variety of options and customization. Fast forward to today and now we have Windows 10 with its own take on the Windows Start menu. That’s where Start10 comes in, and just like before, gives Windows users th...
Fences v3.03 beta is available today for current customers and Object Desktop members. Update includes: Updates /startup robustness & reliability R-clicking anywhere on Titlebar opens the menu Resolves issue where icons covered by other fences on general-desktop (not in fence) could still be clicked Disables "escape" button from triggering autohide Fixes bug where rollup/rolldown timer can get stuck, breaking rollup for a specific fence until reboot Resolves issue where if Fence...
Check out Stardock's CEO, Brad Wardell, on the latest eXplorminate podcast! "Join Nate and Troy as they speak with Brad Wardell, the man behind Stardock, about all things Galactic Civilizations 3, Sorcerer King, Ashes of the Singularity, Offworld Trading Company, Star Control and much much more!" Listen to the podcast here.... https://explorminate.net/2016/09/19/strategic-expanse-27-the-3rd-brad-wardell-interview/
The Autumn season officially begins soon, so it’s also a good time to get your desktops ready for the seasonal changes. We have lots of great skins for the season, but today we’ll start with some favorite wallpapers to get you started. You can see more Autumn wallpapers here: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/wallpapers/search/autumn Autumn Wood The Autumn Tree Autumn walk ...