The year has started off with some great title releases including Mass Effect 2 and Star Trek Online. Impulse has a “coming soon” section where you can pre-order upcoming games, and we have some great titles coming up.
Take a look at a few highlights:
Dawn of Discovery: Venice – This is the first expansion for the real-time strategy and simulation game, Dawn of Discovery.
Elemental: War of Magic – Elemental is the highly anticipated fantasy strategy game from Stardock.
This was definitely a good week in the skinning world. We had another community project done, a glimpse of ObjectDock 2, and more. To end the week off right, we have our weekly skinning series, This Week in Skinning, and this week we once again highlight some of the featured skins on WinCustomize.com this week. Check out This Week in Skinning for February 5th !
Oh where has this week gone to? This was a long week, but a pretty good one. In case you didn’t see the WC news this week, WindowBlinds is approaching 16 million downloads on Download.com, and the My Dirty Valentine community project was completed. I really can’t enough how much I enjoy seeing the community coming together with projects like this. Now for this weeks picks! Robotic Defense by theAVMAN One of my new favorite CursorFX ...
Big Download had a chat with Stardock’s Brad Wardell about Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy recently. “ The second mini-expansion, Diplomacy, sounds like it will have less of a combat focus this time. Why did you want to improve on the game's non-combat features? Probably the biggest reason has to do with allowing a lot more flexibility for players. Prior to Diplomacy, players had virtually no control over which players they were at war with. Inevitably, this meant ...
WindowBlinds has always been a popular download on CNET’s Download.com, and I see it is approaching nearly 16 million downloads ! That is an incredible number, and Download.com is actually how I first discovered WindowBlinds many years ago. So when do you think we will hit that magic number? How about putting out a guess as to which date we hit 16 million? Whoever guesses the right date will be put into a random prize pool! http://download.cnet.com/WindowBl...
I just wanted to give a heads up that Fences Pro is on sale in the Impulse Store for a limited time! Fences is one of the most popular free downloads, and it has received tons of reviews showing how Fences is the ultimate way to keep your desktop organized. Fences Pro builds on that with additional features such as default fences for new icons, organizing icons into fences by icon type, and more. Grab it now for just $17.95! http://impulsedriven.com/fencespro
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I’m really having a great time. I’m a huge Trek fan so this game something I have been waiting for, and the fact that I’m playing with some other Stardockians and community members makes it even better. I finally got my “big” ship, and I kept the customization more towards the Constitution-class style. Get Star Trek Online from Impulse.
These community projects from the WinCustomize community are really taking off. The latest we have is for Valentine’s Day, with the appropriately named suite, My Dirty Valentine. Thanks to Philly0381 for taking up this project and I see he’s already up to more! My Dirty Valentine (TM Suite) The individual skins can be found on the suite theme above, or by searching here . And a big thanks goes out to the skinners involved: •WindowBlinds - k...
Frogboy has posted a few images of the much anticipated ObjectDock 2.0, which is slated to go into beta very soon. Check it out!
A new month means a new thread to show off your desktop screenshots. With all the wallpapers, WindowBlinds skins, and various other skins and themes available on WinCustomize, I’m always amazed at some of the combinations that people come up. Simply pure creativity! Snap a screenshot of your desktop and post it to this thread here. https://forums.wincustomize.com/374824
I hope this Monday is going well for everyone. Lets take a few minutes to discover some of the weekend skins and themes that came in!
I have been putting off getting a new hard drive for a while, but I really had no choice as it was filling up pretty fast. Luckily, I had an Amazon gift card and grabbed a new Western Digital 1TB drive with it. Last night I backed everything up to my WHS, and made an image of the drive using Acronis True Image Home. Installed the new drive this morning, and restored it with Acronis, and now all is back to normal. Ah yes, more space!
End of the first month of the year is just days away! January was a great month for Impulse, and for gaming in general. Mass Effect 2 was released this past week, and response to it has been spectacular to say the least. This week wasn’t all about ME2 though, as the pre-orders for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 opened along with the beta.
Of course any Star Trek fan should be ready as the head-start weekend opens today for Star Trek Online, available to anyone who pre-ordered. Keep an eye out for me patrolling the Regulus Sector.
Lets take a look at what else was going on this week!
Articles to check out:
New Releases on Impulse:
Weekend Impulse Buys:
Nothing like a Friday, right? Well to end your week we have our latest edition of This Week in Skinning, that should satisfy your skinning needs for at least the rest of the day. Check out This Week in Skinning !