C Corporation | |
Industry | Computer software |
Founded | Livonia, Michigan (1991) |
Headquarters | Plymouth, Michigan, United States (June 18, 2005) |
Key people
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Brad Wardell, CEO |
Revenue | $15 million (2009) |
Number of employees
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50+ (May 2012) |
Website | www |
Stardock Corporation is a software development company founded in 1991 and incorporated in 1993 as Stardock Systems. Stardock initially developed for the OS/2 platform, but was forced to switch to Microsoft Windows due to the collapse of the OS/2 software market between 1997 and 1998. The company is best known for computer programs that allow a user to modify or extend a graphical user interface as well as personal computer games, particularly strategy games such as the Galactic Civilizations series, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, and Ashes of the Singularity.
Stardock created and maintains WinCustomize, a graphical user interface customization community, and developed the Impulse content delivery system before its sale to GameStop. Many of the skins and themes featured on its site are for software that is part of their Object Desktop windows desktop suite. They are based in Plymouth, Michigan.
Stardock was founded by college student Brad Wardell and named after Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga, Stardock began as a custom PC maker and expanded into making software.