Software developer Stardock revealed the fourth phase of its popular digital distribution platform, Impulse, today.

Impulse enables users to quickly purchase, download, install and update any of thousands of available games, applications, and utilities to their machine. Once purchased, the program becomes associated with their account. If a user purchases a new PC or reformats an existing PC, a user can install Impulse, log in with their account and instantly re-download all their programs.

In the year since its initial release, Impulse has garnered widespread support from major game and application publishers. Most new PC games, for example, are now released on Impulse and a growing number of application developers are releasing their titles on Impulse as well.

Impulse Phase IV is part of the ongoing series of major feature updates for the growing digital distribution platform.  The new client presents a more streamlined experience for managing installed programs, has a much faster, easier to use store, and continues to improve on its unbeatable download speeds to customers.

In addition, PC gamers will soon be able to make use of a new Impulse feature called “Ready to Play”, a revolutionary new free program that allows users to create instant virtual communities based on profiles in order to quickly get multiplayer games going with like-minded people.

Ready to Play will go into wide beta as part of the Impulse Phase IV roll-out this week.  To learn more about Impulse visit www.impulsedriven.com.