ImpulseTV is Here!

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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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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

:thumbsup:

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Innovation is always a treat.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

5*  

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Yay! great update btw

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

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.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

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

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

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.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

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

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Well done.  Good idea guys!

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

*like*

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

Nice:thumbsup:

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Buffering...

 

(hate my ISP)

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

It haz the moving pictures.

As a cat might say.

Which Im not.

 

 

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

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

Great job Stardock, I checked out all of the content in the ImpulseTV tab before posting my comment. This is something I am really excited to see and gives Impulse something unique over the competition.

 that said I'd like to reflect Raisar's comments that they really are Commercials. I can understand why it would be in poor taste to review a game badly, and I thoroughly applaud Impulse for reflecting the good things about games because it shows consumers and players a lot about games they've never heard of or looked at before.

Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Firestem4, reply 16

 that said I'd like to reflect Raisar's comments that they really are Commercials. I can understand why it would be in poor taste to review a game badly, and I thoroughly applaud Impulse for reflecting the good things about games because it shows consumers and players a lot about games they've never heard of or looked at before.
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I am not sure why giving a full perspective of a game would be in "poor taste," but yeah these are pretty much commercials slightly better in that they show the actual game in action. I am so sick of commercials that show content that is not even in the game. Interesting idea, even if its only using kid gloves with these games.

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm looking at it now, I can only view the opening 9 videos, when I scroll left or right the other vids don't light up and are not clickable. Have vids not been made for them yet?

Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Nesrie, reply 17
.I am not sure why giving a full perspective of a game would be in "poor taste," but yeah these are pretty much commercials slightly better in that they show the actual game in action. I am so sick of commercials that show content that is not even in the game. Interesting idea, even if its only using kid gloves with these games.
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I guess I didn't finsh typing that sentence =P. When considering that all of the videos so far have been 'positive' with no downside of any game being talked about (minor or major), it would be in poor taste to do that to some of the games (see = Indy games, while not trying to coddle the industry, typically lacks mindshare and many consumers will easly pass on a title from an unknown game if theres a few problems).

Hopefully that makes some sense :)

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

You know why I like this?

 

Because its former press editor types shamelessly advertising products, like they did before - but now they don't have to hide behind a veil of objectivity. :)

It is a great idea. Show the actualy gameplay (not some cinematic publisher made trailer!) with some realtively informed people giving a basic overview. And have that RIGHT NEXT to the shop.

 

I wonder how its recived by the majority of customers?

Reply #21 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Firestem4, reply 19


Hopefully that makes some sense
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Sure I see what you mean now. They started 100% positive, so it's going to be hard to shift from that. Still I am hoping they do more with this than just pimp the entire catalog one at a time on video. I mean this is the kind of thing Nintendo does with it's videos and games on the Wii channel which is about as "unbiased and outspoken" as marketing team hyping a game before release.

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Nesrie, reply 21

Quoting Firestem4, reply 19

Hopefully that makes some sense

Sure I see what you mean now. They started 100% positive, so it's going to be hard to shift from that. Still I am hoping they do more with this than just pimp the entire catalog one at a time on video. I mean this is the kind of thing Nintendo does with it's videos and games on the Wii channel which is about as "unbiased and outspoken" as marketing team hyping a game before release.
End of Nesrie's quote

 

You really think that could happen? I mean, if I was running it - I wouldn't want to risk it I guess.

Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top
Quoting Aractain, reply 22


You really think that could happen? I mean, if I was running it - I wouldn't want to risk it I guess.

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No actually I am not holding my breath after watching these videos that we will get anything close to unbiased and outspoken on ImpulseTV. I was just using Island Dog's words which made me think these were reviews not the sale pitches they are. Unbiased and outspoken is probably only going to come from user/consumer reviews you find on Amazon or Newegg, not anything they put out like. I seriously doubt that any video is going to, for example, talk about how grossly unfinished and over priced a game like Alganon is with a buy button right next to that review.

That's not to say I think these are bad videos or have no value. Seeing the gameplay and some commentary on the gameplay is worthwhile, especially for smaller titles which typically have crap videos and little marketing. I just don't know why it's being called "unbiased and outspoken expert commentary" unless, of course, that commentary is located someplace on there I didn't find.

Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top

I'me seing a new phrase - "pew pew" or something like that? Any idea what that means??

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting CobraA1, reply 24
I'me seing a new phrase - "pew pew" or something like that? Any idea what that means??
End of CobraA1's quote

No idea who started it but its refering to shooting things (guns, phasers or lighting bolt in WoW) by the sound.