Well look no further. Community members Spartan, Luckmann, and landisaurus have taken some time and created some very cool looking avatars with resources from Elemental: War of Magic. You can use these as your forum avatar on the Elemental forums, or other forums as well. There are a bunch of choices, and we thank them for taking the time to put them together for the community. Check out their post which has all the avatars .
It’s that time of year where we start seeing many of these “most anticipated” lists, and a great deal of them have some fantastic games on them. Malaysian Gamer put out their top 10 list recently, and Demigod was no doubt part of that list. “Chris Taylor’s next game arrives next year. Mixing the genre’s of action and strategy in what has been called as gameplay similar to DoTA, Demigod seems like it will have a more diverse range of gameplay style from action oriented hero’s to m...
The Big Download has posted their picks for the most anticipated PC games for 2009, and Demigod is on the list! They have quite an impressive list, and it’s great to see the excitement building around Demigod. “Gas Powered Games' mix of action, strategy and RPG look to serve it well with this title. The graphics look amazing and the idea of mixing up gameplay between one large unit and controlling smaller ones has us intrigued. Plus they have some multiplayer features planned tha...
If you use a PC day in and day out, customizing your desktop environment is something you can do to bring a more “personal” touch to your desktop. WindowBlinds allows users of Windows XP and Windows Vista the option to change the look and feel of their desktop by changing the visual style of Windows, also called skinning. There are literally thousands and thousands of skins for WindowBlinds created by hobbyists, all the way up to professional graphic designers. Th...
We are just a couple of weeks into the 2009 WinCustomize subscription, and we need to pick up the pace. Subscribing or renewing your subscription will help with the development of the new site. If you already have your subscription set, you can also easily purchase a subscription for a friend or a fellow community who might need one. We also have a post about WinCustomize 2009 brainstorming to give you an idea of some of the changes floating around. If you would like to help p...
I love seeing new WindowBlinds skins come together, and I get even more happy when I see they have some matching skins to go along. Sometimes the WB skinner will put together the whole suite themselves, or others from the community might jump in and help. I have seen a couple of these lately, and I wanted to give them a spotlight. Today, I wanted to feature Aqueous by Mirsguy. The WindowBlinds skin is clean, minimal, and although it’s based on a darker color, it makes good u...
Well I finally got Windows 7 installed on my laptop. The only issue I had was getting the partitioning right, but that was my problem. Installation took about 10 minutes, and in about 20 minutes overall I was on the desktop ready to work. Very impressive! So far, Windows 7 seems very fast and haven’t run into any problems as of yet. No problems with application compatibility yet, and I’m really liking some of the design changes. Still have a lot to go thro...
Is it Monday already? I completely forgot! Well anyways, if you missed some of the skin submissions to WinCustomize over the last couple of days, don’t worry, we are here to help. Take a look through some skins that caught our eye, and that you might have missed.
CES 2009 is coming to an end, and without a doubt, it was a very exciting year. The big news was definitely the Windows 7 beta, but there were plenty of other items that show 2009 is going to be a stellar year for tech. The Stardock crew has been posting pictures and video of the event. Check out their latest updates: CES 2009 Live – Video Tour of Microsoft’s booth CES 2009 Live – Dawn of War 2 CES 2009 Live Day 2 – Random Encounters CES 2009 Live – Video Tour of C...
The first 2009 edition of Impulse Weekly is up! You don’t want to miss out on this one as we have Kalypso Media titles on sale throughout the month of January. You can pick up some really great games at a low price. Also check Impulse Weekly for any game updates you might have missed, and to get a look at some of the upcoming releases we have in store.
I have been looking at this, and it is some really incredible technology. This is the Nvidia GeForce 9400 Plus Atom with the following features. Windows Vista Premium experience Premium DirectX 10 graphics with advanced digital display connectivity CUDA technology unlocks the processing power of the GPU to accelerate video transcoding and run the most compute-intensive applications Premium 1080p HD video with true-fidelity 7.1 audio Take a look at the NVIDI...
Day 1 of CES 2009 has wrapped up, and our team on the ground has been reporting back on all the cool stuff they have been checking out. We have a dedicated category on Impulsedriven.net just for CES 2009 coverage, and the blogs so far have plenty of pictures to go along. Here is our Day 1 CES wrap-up: Quick Review of the Windows 7 Beta CES 2009 LIVE: Day 1 – CARS CES 2009 LIVE Day 1 –Radar Detectors ‘Microsoft Tag’ Unveiled at CES CES 2009 Live Day 1 – Highlights...
This Week in Skinning has taken a few weeks off, but today it returns for the New Year with a bunch of featured skins. The new year has started off great with a nice selection of new skins coming in. Head over now and check it out!
Welcome to the New Year, and the first edition of This Week in Skinning for 2009! I wanted to change the format up a bit, and I haven’t decided on a final version yet, so the look of this feature might change over the next couple of weeks. Let me know what you think. Now for this weeks picks! BootSkins / Logons ObjectDock and CursorFX ...
There has been quite a bit of news on the Windows Home Server front this week at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. HP, Acer, and other companies have announced new Home Servers, and more news is expected. Read a roundup of Home Server news at Neowin.net .