We did our informal polls throughout the nomination process, but now that we have the candidates down, lets move on to some election predictions.  Everyone give your prediction on who will win, and the rough percentage of the vote they will get. For me.... McCain/Palin will win with 54% majority.

Well folks, now is the time to start the real countdown to this years GUI Championships, the largest GUI customization competition around,  and to give some more details about the competition.  Let me first start off by thanking all our sponsors for this years event, I have no doubt this will be the best one yet! The GUI Champs ‘08 will officially start on Monday, October 13th .  The judging and more detailed schedule will be posted soon, but this is when w...

Well folks, now is the time to start the real countdown to this years GUI Championships, the largest GUI customization competition around,  and to give some more details about the competition.  Let me first start off by thanking all our sponsors for this years event, I have no doubt this will be the best one yet! The GUI Champs ‘08 will officially start on Monday, October 13th .  The judging and more detailed schedule will be posted soon, but this is when we will start ac...

I hope everyone had a very good weekend, and that it was full of sun, beaches, and tropical drinks.  Well probably not everybody, but I’m sure someone had that good a weekend.  Keep an eye out on WinCustomize today, as we have some special GUI Champs ‘08 news coming. But for now, here are some of my favorite picks from the weekend.

Well we missed a couple weeks, but I wanted to keep this going.  A lot of work this weekend catching up from my trip, so it wasn't a real big gaming weekend for me.  I did manage to get in a bit of gaming on the DS, which I played some Anno 1701, which is also a great PC game.  It wouldn't be a complete weekend without getting my hands dirty with the Demigod beta.  I would imagine quite a few of you felt the same way.  So, what did you play this weekend?

Recently I posted the first part of the interview with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell by ShackNews.  Part 2 of the interview goes into Stardock’s appearance at PAX ‘08, the upcoming game Demigod , and the upcoming turn-based fantasy strategy game that Stardock is currently working on. Another quick excerpt: “ Shack : How was your time at PAX? Brad Wardell : It was great. That was so fun. Because we were out there and we had the Gas Powered Games guys [Supreme...

In the latest edition of the Stardock Games blog on IGN.com, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell talks about the upcoming PC game, Demigod, and discusses the customization options that players can use to create their own unique Demigod. Brad and Gas Powered Games lead designer, Mike Marr, have a developers chat and come up with quite a few options to give players more options for their Demigod. An excerpt from the blog: So what kinds of skills would do that? Well, we want to balance micro-manag...

As I'm sure you have noticed, we had have been having some site issues with WinCustomize over the weekend.  It seemed to have started late last night, and then again into this morning.  We are aware of the issues and are currently working to get everything resolved as soon as possible.  During this time, you might encounter issues with the site.  Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience during this matter. -Spencer ID

Spore is a game that has been hyped up for what seems like several years now.  However, with it’s release last week most of the press and fan coverage of the game has been limited to one thing……it’s DRM.  One of the top stories this week was an organized “protest” at Amazon.com where over 2000 reviews were placed giving Spore a 1-star rating because of it’s included DRM measures.  Forbes Magazine has an article about the piracy of Spore. “EA had hoped to li...

Every Friday, Zoomba take a few minutes out of his extremely busy schedule to bring us the latest releases, previews, and even special discounts from the Impulse store.  Some of my favorite releases this week was Sid Meier's Pirates! and Children of the Nile: Alexandria.  Be sure to check this edition of Impulse Weekly for a special discount on the upcoming "The Witcher" game. Impulse Weekly

The first Microsoft ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, really didn’t seem to go over well with the public.  This is the next ad in the series and I have to say I think it’s much better, and I see where they are going with it. This is the long version of the ad, and a higher quality version can be found on the Microsoft website .

The week is at its end, and it’s time for another edition of This Week in Skinning.  Don’t forget the GUI Champs starts in just about a month, and we already have over $10,000 in cash and prizes lined up.  Look for more info next week. This Week in Skinning

It’s been a busy week, but I still wanted to make a quick This Week in Skinning.  Here are this weeks picks!   DXDragDropExtended by Littleboy Not so much a skin, but a very useful tool for anyone creating things with DesktopX.   I-Tech by gef This latest Master DX theme from gef is another clean, sleek style that everyone should try.   Cloud Surfing by CarGuy1 This .dream puts yo...

GameSpy takes a look at the upcoming Entrechment expansion pack for the hit PC game, Sins of a Solar Empire from IronClad Games and Stardock. Of the many new features and improvement in Entrenchment, GameSpy dove right into the new Star bases and what it means to the overall game. "Of all the new goodies available in Entrenchment , the real showstoppers are the new star bases. These massive structures are designed to completely change the nature and shape of the "stellar ter...

GameSpy takes a look at the upcoming Entrechment expansion pack for the hit PC game, Sins of a Solar Empire from IronClad Games and Stardock. Of the many new features and improvement in Entrenchment, GameSpy dove right into the new Star bases and what it means to the overall game. "Of all the new goodies available in Entrenchment , the real showstoppers are the new star bases. These massive structures are designed to completely change the nature and shape of the "stellar terrain" that pl...