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The latest update in the Demigod blog at IGN comes from Dru Staltman and NateSimpson from Gas Powered Games.  They talk about the process of creating the characters featured in Demigod.

"Imagine Hercules and Achilles locked in combat. The two heroes trading blow for blow in an epic melee. The heroes tossing each other through buildings, chasing each other across the fields of antiquity, and eventually a crushing defeat and valiant victory. This epic combat is something that would be fantastic to behold."

Read the full blog at IGN.

Yesterday, Stardock put out The Political Machine 2008 Express which is a free strategy game for the political season. 

“Players play on the electoral map of the United States with the goal to gain the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election. Players get 21 weeks (approximately the time candidates have between the primary season and the general election) to make speeches, raise money, buy advertisements, hire political operatives, appear on cable TV shows in order to woo voters to their side.

Political Machine Express also includes a print shop which allows players to create their own bobble heads, campaign pins and bumper stickers and print them out on their home printer. “

User can download the game from www.politicalmachine.com/express, or from the My Games tab in Impulse.

I have started a Desktop Customization group at Geeks! and when we hit 100 members I will be giving away a copy of WindowBlinds 6.  All you have to do is join our group and the winner will be selected randomly.  More info can be found here.

Join our Desktop Customization group!

Stardock is excited to announce that “phase two” of its digital download platform, Impulse, has begun and all updates, new games and software applications will soon be live. Phase two of Impulse sees new games from 2k (Civilizations III, Shattered Union, Sid Meier’s Pirates! and Sid Meier’s Railroads!) and Tilted Mill’s Children of the Nile enhanced edition. New software applications include a host of Corel applications like WordPerfect Office X4, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, and Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 as well as software applications from Genie Soft, Iolo, and AVG Internet Security and Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware software.

Phase two of Impulse also adds the ability for users to install and update third-party freeware programs that are available via Impulse. This makes the transfer of the catalogue of programs installed on a user’s machine extraordinarily simple from machine to machine as it’s all centrally located on Impulse. Phase two has already addressed user feedback and incorporates significantly faster load times, downloads, a smart queue option and a smarter updating process which exponentially decreases processing time for updates.

All new titles and software applications are now available at www.impulsedriven.com

Episode 16 of the WinCustomize SkinCast is up, and this is an extra special one!  About two weeks ago we posted that Darren McPhee from AMD will be our guest, and we will be giving away 3 prizes, one of which is an ATI 4870 video card courtesy of AMD/ATI.  The other two prizes are a copy of Sins of the Solar Empire, and the upcoming Demigod game.  We received a bunch of great questions, and although we had a difficult time narrowing it down to 3, we eventually made our choices.

Congratulations to the winners, which are.....

Sorry, you will have to listen to the podcast to find out!

Episode 16 - Live with AMD

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