Published on January 13, 2009 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

In case you missed the news, Paradox Games has joined Impulse and the first titles are available on Impulse today!  Hearts of Iron, Supreme Ruler 2020, and its expansion, Global Conflict are now available for download.

The rest of the Paradox catalog will be added soon!

https://store.stardock.com/images/product_gfx/hoiron5.jpgHearts of Iron

 

https://store.stardock.com/images/product_gfx/globalcrisis1.jpg
Global Conflict


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on Mar 04, 2009

When the original publishers stop being picky with their cd key database.

Same with Steam too, I was trying to add a few games to that but, same issue...

on Mar 06, 2009

CrazyC0330

Instead of waiting for the game to be digitally distributed on Impulse, why not buy it from paradox via it's gamersgate?

Personally speaking if PI merged (shutdown) GG with Impulse I think it would be a big huge win on both sides and a substantial advantage for gamers.

The only way that will happen is if Stardock buys Paradox, which I wish would happen. Paradox wants to keep their independence though.

So both GG and Impulse are quality services IMO, and while I'm glad that Paradox may get exposed to a larger audience through Impulse, I'll continue to purchase Paradox titles through GG. Given that GG is owned by Paradox, I assume they profit a bit more from purchases on that site--and reasonably supporting quality independent developers like PI and Stardock is a good thing.

I think there's a misconception that Gamers Gate is owned still by Paradox.  Check out this interview with GamersGate CEO Theodore Bergquist, over here (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/the-gate-keeper).  Specifically:

"Q: Historically GamersGate was part of Paradox Interactive - do you still maintain that relationship?

Theodore Bergquist: Yes, it's both ways. GamersGate is a completely separate entity with separate management, budget, goals and so on, but it did start as a project under Paradox because their community demanded some downloading services, because they couldn't buy the games.

The first traffic came from the Paradox community, and they're still into GamersGate, but as we grow their relative size is getting smaller. Certainly there are fans still buying Paradox games on GamersGate though. "

 

Thanks for the info. I was not aware that GG was spun off from PI. That should make a very close relationship between PI & SD all the more possible without the distro conflict.

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