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June 8, 2010 by Island Dog
Stardock released WindowBlinds 7.1 today. WindowBlinds is a program that allows users to customize the user interface of Microsoft Windows. By applying “skins,” WindowBlinds can easily change nearly every element of the Windows experience including the task bar, Start menu, window borders, scrollbars, push buttons, and much more. The v7.1 update includes: Added three new UIS0 skins for Vista/Windows 7 New create textures UI New random wallpaper changer UI Added s...
June 8, 2010 by Island Dog
Gas Powered Games and Stardock are excited to release the v1.3 update for the popular real-time tactical strategy game, Demigod .  This update includes a host of fixes and improvements. Fixes: Abilities while moving fix: Demigod movement has been re-architected to resume attacking previous targets after using abilities. This fixes multiple problems with triggering Demigod abilities while moving.The following exceptions and modifications are by design: Direct targ...
June 8, 2010 by Island Dog
The latest Master skin to hit WinCustomize is Albedo 0.9 by adni18.  This is a dark theme, but well built for easy reading and everyday use.  Wallpapers and ObjectDock backgrounds are included, and this works with XP, Vista, and Windows 7! Albedo 0.9 If you are a WinCustomize Subscriber you get 20% off Master skins!
June 7, 2010 by Island Dog
Impulse is giving PC fans an added bonus for their Diggs, Tweets and Forum participation starting today as Stardock announced the formation of a new fan-based society, the Elemental Army. Fans of the anticipated PC fantasy strategy title Elemental: War of Magic can win limited edition / custom Elemental packs, up to $100 in gift cards to Stardock’s digital distribution platform, Impulse and more by simply enlisting in the Elemental Army and participating in online discussions about the...
June 7, 2010 by Island Dog
Impulse is giving PC fans an added bonus for their Diggs, Tweets and Forum participation starting today as Stardock announced the formation of a new fan-based society, the Elemental Army. Fans of the anticipated PC fantasy strategy title Elemental: War of Magic can win limited edition / custom Elemental packs, up to $100 in gift cards to Stardock’s digital distribution platform, Impulse and more by simply enlisting in the Elemental Army and participating in online discussions about the...
June 7, 2010 by Island Dog
Ah goodness, it’s Monday already?  That weekend went by pretty quick again, so here we are again on Monday morning checking out some of the uploaded skins and themes from the past weekend. Check out some of these!
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog

Happy June, and welcome to a brand new month of Impulse Weekly!  It might not be officially summer yet, but it is certainly starting to feel like it both in temperature and busy times.  It goes without saying that Impulse had another great week of releases, and one that generated quite a bit of talk around the office was the Sims 3 – Ambitions expansion.  This expansion for the popular Sims 3 brings new career options, the ability to control them while on the job, choose your Sims career progress, and more.  I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but the Sims 3 fans in the office say go for it!

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The pre-order for Hearts of Iron III – Semper Fi have also started.  This is the first expansion to the WWII RTS title from Paradox.  The game launches on June 6th, so pre-order now and be ready to play!  The road to Elemental is also getting hotter as a ton of news and previews have been published this week.  Check www.elementalgame.com for news, and be sure to take a look at some of the links below for Dev Journals on Elemental’s progress.

 
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June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
Gamasutra has posted an interview today with Stardock’s Brad Wardell about the upcoming PC game, Elemental: War of Magic, and it’s partnership with Random House to create a novel written by Brad as well. “ What prompted that? They had just seen that the game was in development? BW: They were already aware of Galactic Civilizations, and they liked that we had a whole universe around it, so they asked, "What is your next game?" We told them about Elementa...
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
Gamasutra has posted an interview today with Stardock’s Brad Wardell about the upcoming PC game, Elemental: War of Magic, and it’s partnership with Random House to create a novel written by Brad as well. “ What prompted that? They had just seen that the game was in development? BW: They were already aware of Galactic Civilizations, and they liked that we had a whole universe around it, so they asked, "What is your next game?" We told them about Elementa...
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
Can you believe it is June already?  We are rolling into summer, and this week has especially been good as several Master skins have been released, and a couple more on the way.  Lets check out this weeks picks! Robotic Defense Retriever by theAVMAN This is just a very cool theme for CursorFX.  An incredible amount of detail and cool animation. Tropical Cavern by Ausvet It’s summer time, you need to put something beac...
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
Today we have another published preview of Elemental: War of Magic, this time from the crew at 1up.com! “Elemental: War of Magic is One More Side of Dungeons & Dragons If Dungeon Keeper lets you play as one of D&D's evil overlords, then Elemental lets you play as the king (or queen). The last time we saw Elemental: War of Magic , it was still in the early stages of development -- it resembled a paper map with some icons scattered around. Now that things are much further al...
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
Today we have another published preview of Elemental: War of Magic, this time from the crew at 1up.com! “Elemental: War of Magic is One More Side of Dungeons & Dragons If Dungeon Keeper lets you play as one of D&D's evil overlords, then Elemental lets you play as the king (or queen). The last time we saw Elemental: War of Magic , it was still in the early stages of development -- it resembled a paper map with some icons scattered around. Now that things are much further al...
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
The latest Master skin to hit the galleries if Fire Starter by Vampothika.  This dark WindowBlinds skin contains the always creative and unique style from Vampokitha, and will definitely make a great addition to your collection. Fire Starter WinCustomize Subscribers get a 20% discount!
June 4, 2010 by Island Dog
Let me first start out by saying I have no love for BP, and I’m not trying to defend any of their actions and such.  If any BP executive knowingly did anything to cause or neglect the oil spill situation then I hope charges will be brought if need be.   I strongly hope a fair and independent commission will investigate this disaster on both BP’s and the governments role in it.  Unfortunately, I don’t think fair will be involved as anything with dealing with ...
June 3, 2010 by Island Dog
IGN got their hands on a preview of Elemental: War of Magic, and have published their updated impressions of the upcoming game from Stardock. “In case you haven't been following along with coverage on this title, Elemental: War of Magic fuses turn-based strategy gameplay with role-playing elements in a high fantasy world. Once a game begins it's up to you to scour the terrain, acquire resources, build towns and try to secure a victory, which Stardock says will be possible in a nu...