Published on February 18, 2010 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Stardock has pulled back the curtain on ImpulseTV, the latest major feature to come to the popular digital distribution platform, Impulse. Hosted by Jason Ocampo, formerly of IGN and Gamespot, and Brian Clair, formerly of Avault.com, ImpulseTV is designed to let people see games and software as they really are in order to get a better idea of whether they want to buy it or even try out the software. ImpulseTV features hands-on walk-throughs, game tutorials and tips, spotlights and demos on AAA and indie games alike, unbiased and outspoken expert commentary and more.

“There’s a lot of real gems out there that people would normally never hear about,” said Ocampo. “With ImpulseTV, we hope to shed some light on great games – both famous and unknown.”

Stardock continues its tradition of revolutionary digital download platform features with ImpulseTV, adding an innovative social networking aspect to the platform’s latest feature. ImpulseTV easily finds online friends with similar gaming tastes and fans will be able to view who has downloaded games featured on an episode of ImpulseTV, chat with them, participate in discussions stemming from each episode, or decide to purchase the game – all from the ImpulseTV episode screen.

With Impulse, users purchase their game and can then immediately download and install the game through the Impulse client which seamlessly manages updates, community features and more. Games become part of that user’s account such that when a user purchase a new machine, a user can simply re-download the Impulse client, logon to their account and re-download all their purchases, even years into the future.

Download Impulse at www.impulsedriven.com.

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on Feb 18, 2010

on Feb 18, 2010

Innovation is always a treat.

on Feb 18, 2010

 

on Feb 18, 2010
on Feb 18, 2010

Yay! great update btw

on Feb 18, 2010

Very nice - except for one thing . . .

. . . full screen should be full screen. Not 9/10ths of the screen with some buttons at the bottom.

Please make the buttons fade & hide with the rest of the on screren elements.

Not meaning to be overly critical, though - it is a great new feature . And seems to perform very well, the video seems smooth so far.

on Feb 18, 2010

Really enjoy this update, nice job!

on Feb 18, 2010

i think the buttons are too big, and I found a bug, if you click a movie on the side, and then return back to the main menu, it gets stuck with the movie on the side and then it would not rotate back to the main area

on Feb 18, 2010

At the end of the day these are commercials, but they are enertaining and informative previews.  The more you can do for smaller titles like Gratuitous Space Battles the better.  There are a lot of smaller games that would benefit greatly from a showcase like this.

on Feb 18, 2010

At first I was like ImpulseTV? Now after watching WOOOT!

on Feb 18, 2010

Well done.  Good idea guys!

on Feb 18, 2010

*like*

on Feb 18, 2010

Nice

on Feb 18, 2010

Buffering...

 

(hate my ISP)

on Feb 18, 2010

It haz the moving pictures.

As a cat might say.

Which Im not.

 

 

I do however have one word for this TV thing. More.

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