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Steam has 70% of the Digital Distribution Market

For a long time the Valve powered Steam service has been thought to dominate the digital distribution market on the PC, but there was little data related on how much of the market share it had. Now the customer report which Stardock, creators of the rival Impulse service, released shines light on the issue.Brad ...

23 November 2009
03:23 GMT

GamersGate and Impulse Join Modern Warfare 2 Boycott

Digital download services Impulse and GamersGate have announced that, like Direct2Drive, they will not be selling copies of Modern Warfare 2, the upcoming first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision, because of its use of the Steamworks service for things such as authentication and patch delivery.The state...

9 November 2009
06:54 GMT

Impulse Gets Activision and Ubisoft Videogames

Stardock has announced that Impulse, the digital distribution service that it has created is now supported by two of the biggest publishers, Activision and Ubisoft, which are offering their games through it.Impulse is one of the latest comers to the digital distribution scene, competing with other services like Steam...

16 June 2009
02:33 GMT

Impulse Goes into Phase 3

Stardock is announcing that its digital distribution service, Impulse, has finally received the Phase 3 update, which introduces a number of new features: Impulse Anywhere, allowing games to be downloaded on any machine and played on another one, Impulse Reactor, which permits developers to include matchmaking, frien...

9 April 2009
13:11 GMT

Stardock Announces GOO for Impulse

Just as Valve announced its plans to introduce changes in its Steamworks service in order to make piracy impossible and eliminate Digital Rights Management from Steam-distributed games, Stardock revealed a series of changes coming to Impulse, its own digital distribution service. The company says that they are design...

30 March 2009
13:01 GMT

Weekend Reading: Making Gaming More Accessible

So far so good for the videogames industry. Despite the world wide economic crisis, it's still going strong, growing year over year, even if the percentages are not as big as in 2008. But as the recession continues to blast customers everywhere and especially in the three big markets of North America, the United...

28 March 2009
07:11 GMT

Galactic Civilizations II Brought in 10 Million in Revenue

It's nice to see the Chief Executive Officer of a major videogame company talk frankly about costs and revenue. And it's especially nice to see someone show how small development teams, with rather limited budgets and a good feel of their potential audience, can create videogames that are successful both in...

27 March 2009
15:51 GMT

Age of Steam Might Not Last

A recent editorial piece published in the Edge gaming magazine proclaims that gaming has entered a so called “Age of Steam” during which the digital distribution service from Valve is set to become more and more important for gaming on the PC.Not many people would have the guts to disagree with this evalu...

12 March 2009
17:41 GMT

Entrenchment for Sins of a Solar Empire Released

Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad are announcing that they have released Entrenchment, the first mini expansion for the RTS Sins of a Solar Empire. You can get it through the Impulse digital delivery system from Stardock for the low price of 9.95 dollars.As the name implies, Entrenchment is based on the idea of giv...

26 February 2009
13:21 GMT

A “Thinking Cap” Boosts Creativity and Brain Skills

The theory according to which we all have an inner genius waiting to be discovered has been addressed now by a team of scientists that built a device that affects the brain activity through a series of magnetic impulses. They are hoping to tap more of the brain's potential with their newly-developed cap.So far, ...

30 September 2008
10:44 GMT

GameTap Sold to Metaboli

With so many new digital download services coming online, like Stardock's Impulse and Good Old Games, it was inevitable that, at some point, the fledgling DLC industry would have to turn to consolidation to create more profitable and widely available services.Turner Broadcasting System is announcing that it has ...

25 September 2008
03:14 GMT

Sins of a Solar Empire Sells Over 500,000 Units

The Ironclad developed and Stardock published real time space strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire went over 400,000 boxes sold, while the digital download version of the game was ordered by more than 100,000 people. With combined sales of more than 500,000 units, the game is a surprising success taking into account...

8 September 2008
04:50 GMT

Impulse Is Getting 2K Games

The digital download services out there seem to be entering a golden age. Steam, coming from Valve, already has a pretty large library and big titles, like STALKER: Clear Sky, are getting released on Steam at the same time they are available in retail stores. Now Stardock is pushing hard for its own digital download...

1 September 2008
06:54 GMT

Sins of a Solar Empire Getting Massive Patch

When Sins of a Solar Empire was launched, a lot of people doubted the changes that a 4X title featuring a slow pace and incredible fleet on fleet battles had on today's videogame market. But Ironclad and Stardock managed to create a very good game, which sold well despite the fact that, until recently, it was no...

2 July 2008
09:09 GMT

Analyze That: How Impulse Could Out-Steam Valve

PCs are dying. You'll hear this mantra many times and you might read it even more often on various gaming sites. There are those that love PC gaming and upon hearing such news, try to move their player base away from personal computers and towards consoles. Epic has recently done it and Crytek is also announcing...

26 June 2008
18:06 GMT

Kleptomania Has No Cure

No hope for Winona Ryder ...A small clinical research at the Stanford University School of Medicine investigating kleptomania did not find any effective benefit for patients with the impulsive stealing disorder (guilt-ridden, impulsive stealing of inexpensive and unneeded items), even if an open possibility remains t...

17 March 2007
10:19 GMT


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