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Steam has really begun to cash in on the digital distribution market, and, with its soaring profits, new companies are eager to get in on the action. As such, a new digital download service has been born and it's called Get Games. The British distributor is a joint venture of Rupert Loman, the managing director ... |
27 November 2009
03:40 GMT |
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It seems a majority of videogame developers in the United Kingdom are worried that piracy is one of the biggest threats to their business and also believe that in the future, the problem will only get worse. The results are part of a survey commissioned by TIGA, the trade association representing the United Kingdom g... |
12 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers in the videogame business and John Riccitiello, the chief executive officer of the company, is one of the people most concerned with the future of the industry and with how customers will be getting their gaming fix in the coming years. And it seems that he envisions a... |
9 November 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Direct2Drive, the digital distribution service owned by IGN, has announced that it will not be selling Modern Warfare 2, the most recent entry in the very successful Call of Duty series, because Infinity Ward and Activision have decided to include Steamworks, created by Valve, in the release itself.The statement deli... |
6 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 division at Microsoft does not feel in any way threatened by the rise of cloud-based computers like the recently revealed OnLive and Gaikai, believing that the current distribution model, focused on disk-based releases and downloadable content, will be central for the coming years.Jerry Johnson, who is t... |
2 November 2009
13:11 GMT |
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A new study created by TNS/Today's Gamers and Gameindustry.com is showing that more and more gamers on all platforms are interested in digital distribution but that full-game distribution through the Internet is still in its infancy at the moment, with a majority of gamers still preferring to get their Modern Wa... |
28 October 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The leader of Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert, seems determined not to bring more of his companies videogames to the PlayStation Portable for fear that piracy will lead sales of the titles to be so low as not to justify the effort made.At the moment, PixelJunk Monsters has been released on the Sony handheld and appears to be... |
21 October 2009
07:25 GMT |
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Speaking at a round table in New York, Shigeru Miyamoto addressed quite a few issues related to videogames, showing why he is so praised by Nintendo and why he is the main cause for the success of series like Mario and Zelda. Based on his answers, Nintendo lovers should not expect digital distribution for Mario title... |
20 October 2009
16:51 GMT |
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PSP Go's decision to head more towards digital distribution and discard the physical support for most of its products has received harsh criticism. But at least one other person out there thinks that Sony's new console is making the right decision. EA Sports president Peter Moore didn't make any direct... |
20 October 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Randy Pitchford, the leader of Gearbox, creator of Borderlands and a known straight talker, has recently commented that Steam, the digital distribution service created and maintained by Valve, could be a problem for smaller developers because of its potential to be a monopoly and because of the conflict of interest w... |
17 October 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The PlayStation Portable Go, the new handheld from Sony, was released on October 1 and along with it Sony also outed the first games in the PSP Mini range, which is set to offer small, easy to download and play and, more crucially, cheap titles for the fresh device. Unfortunately, it seems that their pricing is a maj... |
9 October 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Most PC gamers tend to think of Steam, the distribution service from Valve, as being a very useful tool. It allows for games to be downloaded, patches are quickly applied, it eliminates the need to store a lot of disks and permits for all the game purchases to be tied to a single online identity. But it seems that so... |
8 October 2009
07:40 GMT |
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It seems that Sony was well aware that some retailers and some players would not be too pleased with the PlayStation Portable Go and with the lack of transfer for UMD games to the PlayStation Network. But the company is saying that until now, it is mostly satisfied with how the public has received the new handheld.Cl... |
2 October 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Sony seems to be abandoning all the plans to allow gamers who own titles on the old UMD format for the PlayStation Portable to get them as a digital download on the new Go console, which is set to be released on October 1. Initially, Sony said that it was looking into the possibility of setting up a program allowing ... |
28 September 2009
13:31 GMT |
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For a long time, videogame publishers have been rallying against the practice of selling used games in specialty stores, saying that they undermine the industry by limiting the amount of money developers and publishers get from the public.Recently, special offers have appeared, which can only be taken advantage off b... |
15 September 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Two services coming in the next year promise gamers the ability to play the latest titles even though they do not have a top gaming computer. OnLive will be installed as a client and will stream only graphics, sound and movement to the player’s computer while the videogame will be running on a distant server. G... |
12 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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For a long time, players and videogame creators have thought of videogames distributed only digitally, with no boxed retail disc, as a nice side show but not popular enough to generate the sales and the profits that big publishers are looking for.But if the figures cited by a representative of Microsoft Australia are... |
7 September 2009
02:55 GMT |
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Take Two is getting ready to release the second episode of content for Grand Theft Auto IV. The Ballad of Gay Tony, as it is called, will be released via Xbox Live, as was previous DLC The Lost & Damned, but will also be published on a disc.Take Two, which is handling publishing duties on the title, is saying that th... |
3 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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GameStop has attracted many gamers’ antipathy. Some don't like it because it makes so much money on used games and because of the way it pushes blockbuster games to customers.Most big videogame publishers do not like it because it makes huge profits from used games sales, even though the industry benefits ... |
28 August 2009
12:51 GMT |
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It's hard to believe it but Games for Windows Live is two years old and Microsoft seems determined to push the service forward, despite claims from gamers that it provided lousy matchmaking and that it was badly integrated with videogames.Last week, the Redmond-based company released version 3.0 of the software,... |
10 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it plans to take down most of the Steam services at about 6:00 PM Pacific time on August 6. The company is estimating that the downtime will not be longer than three hours, so all the services should be back up by 9:00 PM if all goes according to plan. If there is anything wrong, Valve promis... |
6 August 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Xbox 360 users are getting a lot of interesting services in the coming months, with everything from Facebook integration to Last.fm services or even the ability to update their Twitter straight from the console dashboard. But one of the most interesting and the first to arrive in this new wave of updates is the Game... |
6 August 2009
02:41 GMT |
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It's hard to dispute the domination of GameStop when it comes to videogames retailing in the United States. For both new titles and used games, retail chain stores are the place to go to and even as gamers are complaining about the level of service of the employees and the prices offered for used games, GameStop... |
3 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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2K Sports has announced that it plans to release a new download-only game called NBA2K10: Draft Combine at some point in September, allowing gamers to customize a player and put them through the paces of the NBA draft, as they await the official launch of the fresh 2K-created basketball game.Draft Combine is set to a... |
30 July 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Sony has placed a big bet on the success of the PlayStation Portable Go, the new device, officially unveiled at E3, which is set to be released this fall. Designed in part as the firm's response to the success of the new Nintendo DSi, the PSP Go still has some problems, in the eyes of analysts, like the price ta... |
15 July 2009
14:41 GMT |
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For quite some time, videogame industry figures have said that Steam and other digital distribution platforms were set to eat up market share from traditional retailers and that a trade war was brewing between the two camps.It appears that rather than hurting sales of boxed copies of videogames, digital delivery is a... |
6 July 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan, has taken the rather bold step of authoring a report that takes a look at how the videogaming industry will look in the next ten years.He believes that Blizzard will get out a World of Starcraft MMO in less than ten years and that the Wii HD will be released, while oth... |
1 July 2009
05:17 GMT |
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June 29 was supposed to be a big day for three groups of people: fans of Marvel comics, fans of fighting games, and fans of Capcom characters. The reason was the imminent re-release of Marvel vs. Capcom 2, the fighting game launched for the original Xbox from Microsoft, the PlayStation 2 from Sony and the Dreamcast, ... |
30 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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For a hobby long thought of as exclusively masculine and for an industry defined as being a boys’ club, videogaming in welcoming a lot of new gamers each year. A fresh NPD Group report shows that, in 2009, the percentage of female gamers who play on consoles has grown from 23 to 29%, which is really impressive.... |
30 June 2009
03:42 GMT |
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DFC Intelligence, in association with GamerDNA, conducted an extended study aimed at measuring the way Steam and digital distribution in general could impact the sales and the overall activity for videogame releases.The title used was Left 4 Dead, which was released by Valve for both the Xbox 360 and the PC. The stud... |
24 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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GameStop has been making news lately but mostly for all the wrong reasons. Earlier in the year, it released Stardock and Big Huge Games' Demigod before the official date, leading to extended piracy of the title and to problems from those engaging in multiplayer.On Friday, the retailer also broke the street date ... |
23 June 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a couple of hard quarters, posting losses and even making some analysts say that the publisher might be ripe for a take over offer coming from a big media firm interested in getting involved in the videogaming business.But the company says that the restructuring process set to make it profitab... |
18 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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The incoming PlayStation Portable Go!, the new gaming handheld designed by Sony, is set to ditch the UMD drive, which has been the main content delivery system since the PSP was released. The company has said that all the games released for the PSP would be available both in physical form and as digital distribution ... |
15 June 2009
05:16 GMT |
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This week was set to witness the release of Demigod, quite an interesting title created by Gas Powered Games and published by Stardock. The game has both a retail version and a digital distribution version. It focuses on multiplayer, with the network infrastructure and the match making services crucial for a good exp... |
18 April 2009
07:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation Portable is a pretty popular handheld video game console, as it has a lot of features not only related to games, but also to music, pictures and videos. Sadly, the lack of high-quality titles has made it lose some of its popularity, but thanks to the new offensive launched by Sony, things are looking ... |
16 April 2009
02:24 GMT |
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Stardock is announcing that its digital distribution service, Impulse, has finally received the Phase 3 update, which introduces a number of new features: Impulse Anywhere, allowing games to be downloaded on any machine and played on another one, Impulse Reactor, which permits developers to include matchmaking, frien... |
9 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Just as Valve announced its plans to introduce changes in its Steamworks service in order to make piracy impossible and eliminate Digital Rights Management from Steam-distributed games, Stardock revealed a series of changes coming to Impulse, its own digital distribution service. The company says that they are design... |
30 March 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The North American release dates for the new and improved Nintendo DSi handheld are fast approaching and a lot of potential customers, even those who already own a Nintendo DS, have probably gathered quite a few questions about what kind of content the platform would be getting via digital distribution. Well, a quick... |
24 March 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Capcom is one of the most talked about companies in the recent few weeks. Following the very successful launch of Street Fighter IV, which is breaking records left and right, the publisher has also announced that it plans to create and release a Lost Planet 2 and one of its main designers talked about how the shift t... |
9 March 2009
14:11 GMT |
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While the news of the death of PC gaming has been greatly exaggerated, no one can deny that there are some issues plaguing the platform that has arguably done more for videogames than any other. And the biggest of the problems confronting PC gaming is piracy, an ugly daemon that rears its head on the Xbox 360, the Pl... |
24 January 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, arguably the biggest videogame publisher in the world, is severely lacking in digital distribution, as is its main competitor, the newly created Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile, Steam, a Valve developed service that started as a way of delivering updates for Half Life and Counterstrike, offers a huge ... |
17 December 2008
06:20 GMT |
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On the one hand, we are pushing for bigger and bigger disks like the Blu-ray, designed to contain the ever increased gaming content developers pack into today's titles, on the other hand, companies say that digital distribution, aka pushing content through the Internet, will quickly become more important than th... |
22 August 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Fans of modern warfare computer video games will be extremely happy to find out that Shrapnel Games and ProSIM have decided to bring no less than three great titles to digital distribution, allowing you to experience the excitement of armor clashes in the Middle East, a true airmobile assault at the top of the world,... |
6 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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The digital distribution platform that basically allows anybody, anywhere, to get their favorite computer game, has just reached a milestone this Friday: 300 games available for download and counting. The games range from triple A blockbusters to independently developed games, from FPS, RPG and Strategy titles to Cas... |
11 February 2008
02:38 GMT |
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The global download portal GamersGate has announced that it has entered an extensive digital distribution partnership with publishers THQ. This new agreement will benefit the game fans all over the world who would rather purchase games online, instead of traveling to the nearest game shop to make the purchase.The pr... |
17 January 2008
04:40 GMT |
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