Published on September 11, 2009 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Impulse is proud to announce the addition of the Electronic Arts catalog to its growing library of games.  Today sees the release of The Sims 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising, and Spore.

In The Sims 3, every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evil, artistic, insane, and romantic kleptomaniacs? It’s entirely up to you. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you’ve chosen and watch how their traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. Combine over 60 personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. The Sims 3 is available for $49.95 at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/sims3.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 continues the alternative history strategy series with yet another tweak to the timeline.  Facing certain defeat, with the Allies at their doorstep, a desperate Soviet leadership uses its own experimental time machine to save themselves.  Going back in time, they ensure that the Allies never gain their technological advantage, saving their future selves.  However, like all changes to the timeline, this has unforeseen consequences.  Fight as the Allies, Soviets or the all-new Empire of the Rising Sun in this action-packed real-time strategy game.  Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 is available for $29.95 at http://www.impulsedriven.com/redalert3.

In Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising, players learn what happened in the aftermath of Red Alert 3.  This stand-alone expansion pack adds four all-new campaigns, more star-studded live-action movies to tell the ongoing Red Alert story as well as an all-new Commander’s Challenge mode where players must withstand the brutal onslaught of the world’s toughest commanders.  Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising is available for $19.95 at http://www.impulsedriven.com/ra3uprising.

In Will Wright’s PC masterpiece, Spore, players take an amazing journey of creation as they guide their creature through five stages of evolution. Unleash your imagination as you make fantastical creatures, vehicles, buildings and spaceships. Players can show off creations and everything you make can be shared and used by other players. Explore your world and beyond with Spore, now available for $39.95 at: http://www.impulsedriven.com/spore.


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on Sep 11, 2009

Any chance to get Dragon Ages Deluxe (Director's) Edition on Impulse?

on Sep 11, 2009

Since EA is brining Securom they should just leave

on Sep 11, 2009

arstal

 

Quick question: On Dragon Age, is the DRM not finalized yet or is it not using DRM?

 

Stated on the BioWare boards by BioWare devs that it's not SecuROM or Tages, but just a simple disc check. Now, seeing as that was the same thing used on the Sims 3 and it turned up here with SecuROM, my money's on Dragon Age getting SecuROM as well. But only time will tell. I'm sure the info will be on Impulse as soon as Stardock knows.

on Sep 11, 2009

EA games on steam don't have securom... cept for Crysis. God I hate EA

on Sep 11, 2009

Woo EA on Impulse. Too bad EA have restricted their availability.  

 

Any chance to get Dragon Ages Deluxe (Director's) Edition on Impulse?

 

I think that deluxe digital edition is an exclusive EA Store offer. Perhaps they'll offer the extra quests as dlc later anyway.

on Sep 11, 2009

Sorry, having EA spreading its abusive DRM around on Impulse just made me lose a lot of respect for it. Not enough for me to stop buying from it, but it will make me 10x more cautious about any purchase I make on there.

Even beyond the DRM there is the issue of the rest of EA's multitudes of sleaze that as a company I wouldn't want to be associated with lest I be mocked at the next PAX convention.

Take for instance EA's appearance in today's CAD webcomic.

on Sep 11, 2009

Rishkith
Sorry, having EA spreading its abusive DRM around on Impulse just made me lose a lot of respect for it. Not enough for me to stop buying from it, but it will make me 10x more cautious about any purchase I make on there.

Why is this a big deal all of a sudden? I understand a lot of people have a hate on for EA, and I'm no fan either, but they're not the first publisher to have third party DRM on an Impulse title. See Sacred 2 for an example. I don't see why the fact that EA has SecuROM on their Impulse titles suddenly means you lose respect for Impulse.

on Sep 11, 2009

Rishkith
Sorry, having EA spreading its abusive DRM around on Impulse just made me lose a lot of respect for it. Not enough for me to stop buying from it, but it will make me 10x more cautious about any purchase I make on there.

Even beyond the DRM there is the issue of the rest of EA's multitudes of sleaze that as a company I wouldn't want to be associated with lest I be mocked at the next PAX convention.

Take for instance EA's appearance in today's CAD webcomic.

 

I personally love that impulse puts the DRM up in the title area!

on Sep 11, 2009

Congratulations stardock, pretty major development.

 

Too bad RA3 is north america only.... impulse is quite possibly the only way i would consider buying it

on Sep 11, 2009

Thrawn2787
Since EA is brining Securom they should just leave

So those millions of us who buy EA games and Stardock should suffer because you don't like them?  Uh huh.  I'm going to be scratching my head at that logic for a while.

Go tell that to a retail store chain, watch them laugh in your face.

on Sep 11, 2009

Ya, but think about it... Does DRM on EA games really matter? I mean, it's not like the quality of the games will have you coming back 10 years later to play them again. Heck, most of their recent releases would be lucky to see a week of play time if I were to buy them.

on Sep 11, 2009

Tons of titles & publishers were already announced a few months ago... pay very close attention to Impulse swooping the distribution market(s), also.

EA somehow needed Ready To Play & Goo if only to refurbish their "current reputation" of availability without obstruction (yep, DRM principles... **AND SOOOOO WHAT**), anyway.

Superbly strange but wise alliance, SD.

on Sep 11, 2009

While it's nice to see a larger selection of games available over Impulse, I'm not impressed that their DRM software has also come with them. I feel Impulse itself provides enough DRM that additional, third party software shouldn't be needed. I won't be buying any of them myself, however it's great to see Impulse expanding it's library and I look forward to giving you guys more of my money in the future. And Resident Evil 5 is bloody tempting.

on Sep 11, 2009

What if I arleady have an EA game can I register my EA game with my Impulse account?

on Sep 11, 2009

Coelocanth

Quoting arstal, reply 14
 

Quick question: On Dragon Age, is the DRM not finalized yet or is it not using DRM?
 

Stated on the BioWare boards by BioWare devs that it's not SecuROM or Tages, but just a simple disc check. Now, seeing as that was the same thing used on the Sims 3 and it turned up here with SecuROM, my money's on Dragon Age getting SecuROM as well. But only time will tell. I'm sure the info will be on Impulse as soon as Stardock knows.

 

Well, it sounds pretty much official that the physical retail copies won't have anything but a disc check...sort of like the physical retail copies of Sims 3.

 

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