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December 4, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock’s Derek Paxton talks with the folks over at PocketGamer.biz about the making of Dead Man’s Draw and the motivation behind moving into the mobile game market. “You need only talk to Derek Paxton, vice president of Stardock Entertainment, for the briefest amount of time to realise just what a deep love and understanding of strategy games he has. Indeed, it's this keen appreciation for the genre that has helped put the US developer on the map. ...
December 3, 2013 by Island Dog
The holiday season is here!  Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, or just like to give your desktop a winter inspired look, I wanted to give some tips on how to achieve a festive look.  There are thousands and thousands of skins and themes available here on WinCustomize, and the holiday season is one that has a lot of skins available.  Whether you want just a festive wallpaper, or a complete theme for your desktop, we have it covered. Holiday WindowBlinds Skins ...
December 3, 2013 by Island Dog
If you follow tech news you probably have seen the 60 Minutes interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.  He revealed that Amazon has been working on package delivery by drones and hope to have it operational in the next few years.  Link : Amazon The goal is to have items delivered within 30 minutes, but obviously there are a lot of obstacles (no pun intended) to get this going in the real world.  I’m a bit mixed on this technology, and I personally don’t see it taking of...
December 3, 2013 by Island Dog
The latest Master WindowBlinds skin to the WinCustomize galleries is Allure by LightStar.  This skin has a beautiful and bold color scheme, and works on either Windows 7 or Windows 8.  If you are a WinCustomize Subscriber, don’t forget to take advantage of your 20% discount! Allure by LightStar
December 2, 2013 by Island Dog
The Stardock Cyber Monday Sale is now live, and all week you can get Stardock software up to 50% off. Stardock Cyber Monday Sale Sale highlights: Object Desktop subscription – $34.99  $49.99 Start8 – $3.99  $4.99 WindowBlinds – $7.49  $9.99 Fences – $7.49  $9.99 ObjectDock - $7.49  $9.99 DeskScapes – $7.49  $9.99 and many more! Sales are valid from 12/2/13 until 12/8/13.
November 30, 2013 by Island Dog
I didn't go out to any stores on Black Friday.  I did pickup Battlefield 4 Premium and Splinter Cell: Blacklist for cheap though.  Otherwise, that was the extent of my shopping adventures this weekend.  
November 28, 2013 by Island Dog
On behalf of the Stardock crew I'd like to wish our community members and customers a Happy Thanksgiving.  We are thankful to have a bunch of great people here and have fun talking and interacting with you each day. While we are off for a few days to be with our families, we'll be right back at it next week. Have a great holiday!  
November 27, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock Autumn Sale! Starting today through Tuesday, December 3rd, we have a big Autumn Sale going on for Stardock games and DLC.  This sale is going on in our store and on Steam. View the Stardock Autumn Sale list here. Here are some sale highlights: Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes  -  $39.99  $19.99 Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion  -   $39.99  $19.99 Stardock Entertainment Pack 2014  -  $89.99  $44.99 Galacti...
November 27, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock Autumn Sale! Starting today through Tuesday, December 3rd, we have a big Autumn Sale going on for Stardock games and DLC.  This sale is going on in our store and on Steam. View the Stardock Autumn Sale list here. Here are some sale highlights: Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes  -  $39.99  $19.99 Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion  -   $39.9 9  $19.99 Stardock Entertainment Pack 2014  - $89.99  $44.99 Galactic Civ...
November 27, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock Autumn Sale! Starting today through Tuesday, December 3rd, we have a big Autumn Sale going on for Stardock games and DLC.  This sale is going on in our store and on Steam. View the Stardock Autumn Sale list here. Here are some sale highlights: Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes  -  $39.99  $19.99 Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion  -   $39.9 9  $19.99 Stardock Entertainment Pack 2014  - $89.99  $44.99 Galactic Civ...
November 27, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock Autumn Sale! Starting today through Tuesday, December 3rd, we have a big Autumn Sale going on for Stardock games and DLC.  This sale is going on in our store and on Steam. View the Stardock Autumn Sale list here. Here are some sale highlights: Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes  -  $39.99  $19.99 Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion  -  $39.99  $19.99 Stardock Entertainment Pack 2014  - $89.99  $44.99 Galactic Civil...
November 27, 2013 by Island Dog
Stardock Autumn Sale! Starting today through Tuesday, December 3rd, we have a big Autumn Sale going on for Stardock games and DLC.  This sale is going on in our store and on Steam. View the Stardock Autumn Sale list here. Here are some sale highlights: Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes - $39.99 $19.99 Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion -  $39.99  $19.99 Stardock Entertainment Pack 2014 - $ 89.99 $44.99 Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Pack - $ 24...
November 26, 2013 by Island Dog
Since quite a few of us here have Windows Phones, including myself, I thought we could keep an ongoing thread where we can talk about new and useful apps for the platform. If you have a Windows Phone, you can grab apps from the Store app itself, or through your browser at the Windows Phone Marketplace . I'll be talking about my favorite apps, and please feel free to join in.  
November 25, 2013 by Island Dog
Global Intrigue update released! v1.5 The fifth major update to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is live! Diplomacy and stability are the major focuses of v1.5, which you can enjoy as soon as your Steam client automatically downloads the patch. The diplomatic AI has been overhauled, making for a more varied and interesting strategic layer. The AI is also more verbose now, telling players how it feels about them and their other rival empires in no uncertain terms. We al...
November 25, 2013 by Island Dog
Global Intrigue update released! v1.5 The fifth major update to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is live! Diplomacy and stability are the major focuses of v1.5, which you can enjoy as soon as your Steam client automatically downloads the patch. The diplomatic AI has been overhauled, making for a more varied and interesting strategic layer. The AI is also more verbose now, telling players how it feels about them and their other rival empires in no uncertain terms. We al...