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Paradox Interactive has shared some insight into the massive success experienced by its Magicka title, saying that the game benefitted immensely due to being released as a downloadable title, instead of a retail one. Digital distribution is becoming more and more important to developers and publishers, especially on... |
15 February 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Fredrik Wester, the leader of video game publisher and developer Paradox Interactive, has clarified a set of comments he has made about the future of home gaming consoles, insisting again that streaming and digital distribution are revolutionary technologies that will change the future for both consoles and the PC.
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30 January 2012
20:21 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo has stated that it will be launching the new Wii U home console on markets like United States, Europe, Australia and Japan before the end of 2012, although it has not said that the new device will be out at the same time on all these territories.
Satoru Iwata, who is ... |
27 January 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Nanea Reeves, who is a chief product officer working at Gaikai, has told IndustryGamers at the CES 2012 event that, “Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation. That will be the big news at E3.”We already know that Nintendo is planning to launch the Wii U home console at some poin... |
12 January 2012
05:20 GMT |
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GameStop, the biggest specialist retail chain linked to video games, is seen by many as a barometer for the health of the industry overall and two analysts believe that in the coming year the company will perform well mainly because of the launch of new gaming hardware.Michael Pachter, who is an analyst looking at th... |
10 January 2012
19:51 GMT |
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Steam, the video game digital distribution service from Valve, has reported that it has managed to increase its year over year unit sales during 2011 by more than 100 percent, the seventh year that it has managed this impressive feat.The company also says that overall sales value has increased during the same period,... |
9 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Another analyst has revealed his forecasts concerning PC gaming in 2012. M2 Research’s Billy Pidgeon says that the PC will trump consoles in terms of popularity due to a variety of factors, including its more flexible nature, the more powerful hardware, varied online experiences, and even through its support of... |
3 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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We are just a few short days away from the end of 2011 and the beginning of a new year and analysts are jumping at the chance to prove their mettle by predicting the big trends of the coming 365 days.Scott Steinberg, who is an analyst and a marketing expert at TechSavvy Global, told IndustryGamers that, “Expect... |
29 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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GamersGate is expanding its offers in terms of digital distribution, and its CEO, Theo Bergquist, has talked about the competition in this part of the games industry, specifically about Valve’s established Steam and Electronic Arts’ recently launched Origin.PC gamers have more than enough choices when it ... |
21 December 2011
03:10 GMT |
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GamersGate, the digital distribution service that was initially launched by Paradox Interactive and has since become independent, has reported a growth rate of 50 percent for 2011 and has big plans when it comes to the future.Theo Bergquist, who is the leader of GamersGate, told IndustryGamers that, “Streaming ... |
20 December 2011
17:41 GMT |
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After the acquisition of Direct 2 Drive, GameFly has announced that it has launched the open beta stage of its PC digital distribution service.The highlight of the launch is the fact that the Unlimited PC play section of the service offers more than one hundred games that can be directly played through the service, i... |
20 December 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Speaking to IndustryGamers Chris Avellone, who is the Chief Creative Officer at developer Obsidian, has said, “Our eventual hope is that we can stockpile enough resources to release our own titles digitally. Smaller games can be very satisfying projects to work on, and it would be great to do that. But it&rsquo... |
14 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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Valve, the company behind the Steam digital distribution service, has introduced a new coupon feature to its platform, allowing video game developers and publishers to offer targeted discounts to groups of gamers.The coupons are linked to the Steam Inventory feature, which was originally introduced in order to allow ... |
9 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has kicked off a special offer on its Origin digital distribution service, in the form of the Origin Advent Calendar, which presents new deals every day for fans of the company.Just as gamers are recovering from the series of massive sales that were ran during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, quite a lo... |
2 December 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Valve has kicked off a brand new promotion on its Steam digital distribution service, this time in the form of the Daily Wishlist Giveaway, which offers ten lucky users the top 10 games on their wishlist, every day into the holiday season.Steam just ran a massive series of offers as part of its Autumn sale and now, i... |
2 December 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Piracy on the PC platform has once again become a talked about topic, thanks to inflammatory comments from Ubisoft, but Good Old Games’ Trevor Longino believes the industry can learn a lot from the mechanics of PC games piracy and from pirates themselves.Ubisoft once again baited PC gamers with some harsh comme... |
28 November 2011
04:08 GMT |
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GameStop is the biggest specialist retail chain for video games and related products and the company is eager to create a digital distribution service which is seen by Microsoft, Sony and possibly even Nintendo as a way to enhance the experience provided by disk based gaming.Mike Mauler, who is a senior vice presiden... |
22 November 2011
08:18 GMT |
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Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on delivering classic PC games with low prices and functionality for current generation operating systems and computers, has revealed its expansion plans and how it's going to start selling new games in the near future.GOG.com has certainly increased its m... |
21 November 2011
03:13 GMT |
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In the ongoing fight for digital distribution supremacy between Steam and Origin one executive from Electronic Arts has said that Valve's success relies too heavily on third party titles, where his own company is able to use Origin to promote its own games.Eric Brown, who is the Chief Financial Officer at Electr... |
11 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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CD Projekt has announced that its role playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have managed to sell 195,000 copies on the Steam service from Valve, 35,000 copies on Good Old Games and another around 10,000 copies using other digital outlets.Marcin Iwiński, one of the leaders of CD Projekt, stated, “The d... |
11 November 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Many industry watchers thought that the ongoing digital revolution will be a tough challenge for physical retailer GameStop but Mike Mauler, who is an executive vice president at the company, says that it plans to expand in the area and make it a focus of development.Speaking at the London Games Conference the execut... |
11 November 2011
09:06 GMT |
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A new survey of video game industry executives has revealed that the leaders of the companies involved believe that by the year 2015 digital sales of games will become bigger than those made through physical retail channels.The survey was conducted on more than 1,000 executives who took part in the London Games Confe... |
8 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Some fans of Gears of War were disappointed to see that the developers at Epic Games had the time to create and include DLC on the game disk but still charge for it but a leading executive at the company says that his team is not ashamed of doing that.Speaking to Kotaku about how DLC for Gears of War 3 was handled Ro... |
7 November 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Good Old Games might not be the biggest players in the digital distribution space but one of its executives says that it's main competition is not from Valve's Steam but from the piracy driven black market.Speaking to MCV Guillaume Rambourg, who is the managing director working at Good Old Games, has stated... |
24 October 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The iPad and its successor are dominating the tablet market at the moment and many other developers, including the mighty HP, seem to have given up on assaulting that entrenched position but with the announcement of the Kindle Fire, which took place a few weeks ago, Amazon seems to be ready to take up this challenge ... |
22 October 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Speaking to Screenplay Peter Moore, who is the Chief Operations Officer at Electronic Arts, has stated, “Like any piece of software, you launch and continue to polish it, upgrade it, get feedback and make it better. That’s where we are with Origin. We’re only four and a half months in and already ov... |
19 October 2011
17:31 GMT |
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I reviewed FIFA 12 for Softpedia a few weeks earlier and have given it close to perfect scores, admitting that the football simulation might just be the most polished installment in a yearly series to launch during 2011.The game is not without faults and there are numerous small improvements that can be done on the m... |
15 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Digital distribution might be on the rise in the video game industry but a number of leading executives at Sony are saying that it's not yet time for a console that has no physical drive and gets all its content from the cloud.Shuhei Yoshida, who is the president of the Worldwide Studios at Sony, has told Edge d... |
7 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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We're seeing more and more big games launched via digital distribution on consoles at the moment, with the original Crysis just arriving on Xbox Live and on the PlayStation Network, but at least one development studio believes that the move towards digital needs to happen quicker.Speaking to Gamasutra as part of... |
7 October 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group, a market research firm which often deals with issues in the video game industry, is estimating that the total amount which will be spent on gaming hardware, content, services and accessories will reach 4.5 billion dollars (about 3.4 billion Euro at current exchange rates) for the second half of the yea... |
6 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has announced that it has launched a new digital strategy with the release of both Space Channel 5 Part 2 and SEGA Bass Fishing on the Xbox Live service from Microsoft and on the PlayStation Network from Sony.Both titles will cost 800 Microsoft Points or 9.99 dollars, 7.99 Euro and 6.29 Brit... |
6 October 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Current video game consoles like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 will continue to be the "gold standard" for the industry, at least according to GameStop's president, Tony Bartel, who believes they'll withstand the assault of streaming services like OnLive or Gaikai.The games industry is facing some serious c... |
29 September 2011
03:41 GMT |
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The entire video game industry seems to be more interested than ever in digital distribution, social experience and streaming but one of the leaders of publisher Electronic Arts has said that he does not foresee the traditional video game retail store disappearing in the near future.Speaking to both investors and ana... |
21 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Gaikai is a very young business and one with an yet unproven business model but the leader of the company is confident that it can get more than 100 million users before the end of next year.Speaking during an interview with GamesIndustry.biz David Perry, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Gaikai, has stated, &ldq... |
19 September 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Sony is quite convinced that its current and future platforms can accommodate both retail and digital versions of its games that should be released at the same time, like on the PC for example, because gamers benefit from having more choices.While digital distribution has become a mainstay of PC gaming, as platforms ... |
8 September 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Trading on Valve's Steam digital distribution platform is now available to all its users, after being limited just to those enrolled in beta testing for the service.
Digital distribution is big business at least on the PC platform, and Valve's Steam is leading the way by implementing lots of great featur... |
8 September 2011
02:32 GMT |
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The current leader of Valve has said that the pace of development in the PC space is quick enough that the current form of digital distribution service Steam will seem to be primitive to gamers who use similar services in the coming years.Speaking to Kotaku, Gabe Newell, who is the co-founder of Steam, has said, &ldq... |
1 September 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Independent video game developer Marcus Persson, who is known to his fans as Notch, has offered his opinion on the current discussion of the Steam Terms of Service and told the community why he does not intend to get Minecraft on the Valve digital distribution service.Writing on his personal blog Markus Persson has s... |
31 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has confirmed that it's not trying to force its new Origin service down the throats of its fans, as its new games won't be exclusive to the service, and will be allowed to appear on other digital distribution services, even Steam, if Valve straightens out its publishing policy.
EA caused ... |
31 August 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Digital distribution service Steam has become one of the linchpins of the PC gaming market and recent changes have suggested that soon players will be able to trade games freely on the platform, although the company is still unsure about how it can implement such a system.
Speaking with Eurogamer Gabe Newell, who ... |
29 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is confident that the days of regular, retail game distribution are numbered, as customers are losing interest in paying $60 for a boxed game and want them, alongside cheaper titles, to be offered digitally.
Game distribution is currently split between old, brick and mortar stores, like GameStop, a... |
20 July 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it has overhauled its Steam digital distribution service, specifically the actual program used by its community to download, manage and browse for games, in order to allow a better, faster and smoother download experience.
Valve's Steam service is still the king of the digital distrib... |
18 July 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Large North American retailer GameStop has finished integrating its digital distribution business segment into the recently acquired Impulse service.
The digital games distribution market was shaken up a few months ago when large "brick and mortar" retailer GameStop announced that it has purchased the Impulse serv... |
15 July 2011
02:39 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase developer PopCap for the initial sum of 750 million dollars, with the deal set to close during the month of August.
The publisher says that it will initially pay 650 million dollars in cash to those at PopCap while... |
13 July 2011
03:01 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks the sales of the video game industry in the United States, has announced that for the first quarter of this year total spending in the country has reached 5.9 billion dollars, which is 1.5 percent more than the amount of money spent during the same period in 2010.
The NPD Group has said... |
12 July 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive, which specializes in the creation of niche strategy games, has said through the voice of its CEO that it is at the moment getting most of its revenue from digitally distributed products, with retail no longer needed to make the company profitable.
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7 July 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has put together a new digital distribution service, called Origin, and the interests of the publisher are now on a clear collision course with those of Steam, the Valve-created dominant force on the PC market, with the results probably bad for gaming, bad for the PC space and for most of the players.... |
2 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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A new report from research firm Newzoo shows that overall spending by gamers in the United States will reach 21.6 billion dollars for 2011, a slightly lower total than during last year, before growing by about 34 percent during 2012.
The report says that the biggest growth will be seen in social gaming, including ... |
30 June 2011
10:31 GMT |
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One of the uncontested truths of the video game market is that PC gaming is no longer attractive to retail outlets, which devote much less space for titles on the platform than years ago, which means that the sales have largely shifted to the digital space.Darryl Still, who is the United Kingdom publishing director f... |
23 June 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Redbox, which has been so far known for its movie rental service, has announced that it has added a video games section to its vending machines, allowing interested clients to access a number of titles for the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.The company says that it has vending apparatus in more than... |
20 June 2011
08:55 GMT |
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