Impulse Weekend Deals, Avatar preorder

Impulse passed along this week’s biggest deals - to kick off over the weekend - and announced that preorders are now live for James Cameron’s new game, Avatar along with a nifty preorder bonus. Both a regular version of the game, along with a Special Edition of Jame’s Cameron’s Avatar The Game are available for preorder now. The bonus for putting your money down early on the game includes two exclusive in-game weapon unlocks: the Fighting Staff (Na’vi faction) and the Dual Wasp (RDA faction). Dual Wasps have a short range, but they can quickly inflict enough damage to incapacitate nearby enemies. Fighting Staffs are melee weapons with a long range. Their attacks allow you to inflict damage on all surrounding targets.

Earlier this week Impulse announced that pre-orders for Pandemic’s The Saboteur were also available - though I have my doubts that the game will hit its target release date in Dec. after EA gutted the studio earlier this week. We’ll see, right?

This week’s Impulse weekend specials include the following games:

Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia on sale starting today through the weekend, $22.49 from $29.99

Kingdom Elemental: Tactics - $14.95 from $19.95

Iron Grip Warlord – Half off! - $9.95 from $19.99

Hacker Evolution – Untold – Half off! $12.50 from $24.95

Nemesis of the Roman Empire - $9.99 from $14.99

Warlords Battlecry III - $9.99 from $14.99

Supreme Commander Gold - $22.49 from $29.99

Scrapland - $9.99 from $14.99

Find out more by visiting impulsedriven.com/explore/onsale.

Top Selling Digital Downloads

The top selling game on Steam was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the week of Nov. 14, 2009, but over on Direct2Drive where it wasn’t available, various versions of Dragon Age: Origins were selling like hotcakes - whatever that means. I mean, who are the people buying and selling hotcakes and why are they so f**king popular?

Dragon Age is doing pretty well on Steam, Direct2Drive and even on Stardock’s Impulse. 2K Games’ Borderlands is in a respectable position as well, followed by the wonderful indie RPG Torchlight - which doesn’t seem to be available on Impulse for some reason. Come on Stardock, this game is awesome. Complete top ten charts, without any actual sales numbers, below. Sure it’s mostly anecdotal, but it’s fun to look at top ten lists, right?

Steam

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
4. Borderlands
5. Overload Complete Pack
6. Torchlight
7. Crysis / Crysis Warhead Bundle
8. Football Manager 2010
9. Mass Effect
10. Counter-Strike: Source

Direct2Drive

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Borderlands
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (with strategy guide)
5. Torchlight
6. Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 2
7. Tropico 3
8. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. Fallen Earth

Impulse:

1. Demigod
2. Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment
3. Tropico Reloaded
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
5. Dragon Age: Origins
6. Sins of a Solar Empire
7. Gratuitous Space Battles
8. Fort Zombie
9. Hacker Evolution
10. For the Glory

Source: Impulse, Shacknews

Impulse Weekend sales

Impulse is hosting a sale this weekend that will see a number of excellent titles be sold for substantial discounted prices.

Deals include Fairy Tales – Three Heroes RPG for $19.99 from $29.99; FLOCK! for $7.49 from $14.99, Mosby’s Confederacy for $12.99 from $19.99, S.T.A.L.K.E.R – Shadow of Chernobyl for $9.99 from $19.99, Shattered Suns for $9.99 from $14.99 and Capitalism II for $14.99 from $19.99

These are just some of the new deals going on this weekend. Be sure to check out all the games released on Impulse this week. Find out more by visiting www.impulse.com.

Impulse Weekend specials

Impulse is offering a number of sales this week including price cuts for The Dracula Files, Hinterland Orc Lords, Aaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, and a whole lot more. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is on sale through Sunday for 40 percent off as well. Check out the sale list below:

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War Collection – $37.49 from $49.99

The Dracula Files – $37.49 from $49.99

Gratuitous Space Battles - $19.95 from $22.95

Aaaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity - $9.99 from $14.95

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut - $19.99 from $39.99

Hinterland – Orc Lords - $12.99 from $19.99

Nemesis of the Roman Empire - $9.99 from $14.99

Warlords Battlecry III - $9.99 from $14.99

For more details on Impulse and this week’s big game sales, check out www.impulsedriven.com.

Tropico 3 in stores and on Impulse

Update: Tropico 3 is apparently not exclusive to Impulse. It is also available on Steam and other digital distribution platforms.

Original Story: Tropico 3, the new strategy game from Kalypso Media is now in stores and available exclusively online at Stardock’s Impulse. Being billed as “the true sequel to the original best-seller,” Tropico 3 lets players take control of a small strategically positioned Caribbean island, dealing with the people, politics, and challenges of running a country for more than 50 years. Playing as the almighty El Presidente players will also have to ward off political opposition while choosing to either lead their country into peace and prosperity, or rule through fear as a tyrannical dictator.

Developed by Haemimont Games, Tropico 3 promises such new features as a powerful new mission editor, an online challenge mode and a new avatar function that allows players to customize their own unique El Presidente. Once created, the new ruler is free to travel the island giving speeches, issuing edicts and exerting other means of influence that can shape the country’s future. The campaign mode features 18 different missions, while a historical timeline editor, new buildings, industries and infrastructure provide players with a wide array of options for hours of replayability.

Tropico 3 is rated T for teen and is currently available at retail stores in North America for $39.99.

Impulse weekend deals

Impulse is offering a variety of deals in time for the weekend, cutting the price on games of various quality for a limited time. THQ and Relic’s Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor gets a 50 percent price cut, Capcom’s Street Fighter IV is now $29.99 from $39.99, Circus Empire is available for $6.99 from $9.99, Light of Altair is available for $11.25 from $14.95 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare is now 25 percent off.

You can check out these and other deals by visiting Impulse.com

Sins of a Solar Empire hotfix released

Stardock has released a hot fix update for its popular strategy title, Sins of a Solar Empire. The update is for both Sins of a Solar Empire and Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment via the Impulse client software and offers the following fixes and changes:

+ Fix for Akkan’s colonize potentially creating neutral resource extractors.

+ Fix for Adept Drone Anima not behaving correctly in original Sins.

+ Fix for NanoHullRepair sound effect.

+ Jam Weapons will now only be autocast when a threshold number of enemy strike craft are in range. (Entrenchment Only)

+ Improved AI and autocast usage for Flak Burst, TelekineticPush, MassDisorientation and PhaseOutFighters. (Entrenchment Only)

+ New AIUseTime for modding: OnlyWhenManyTargetsInRange. (Entrenchment Only)

+ Fixed bug with mines not targetting or detonating if their owner player didn’t have vision at their planet. (Entrenchment Only)

+ Included dll’s to make sure ConvertData runs correctly for modders.

+ Included Developer builds for modders.

More details at Stardock.com.