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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.
Fredrick We... |
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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Crysis 2, the first-person shooter from developer Crytek, a game published by Electronic Arts, has been removed from Steam this week and a lot of industry watchers were quick to speculate that the move was done in order to make the game an exclusive digital offering on the new Origin distribution service from EA.Now ... |
16 June 2011
04:41 GMT |
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In a reverse of the trend towards more digital distribution, video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it is developing a new retail chain that will be dedicated to selling the sports simulations launched by the EA Sports division of the company.It seems that the first shop in the chain is already being... |
15 June 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher has pulled the first-person shooter Crysis 2, developed by Crytek, from sale on the Steam digital distribution service from Valve in a move that is apparently designed to push its own upcoming digital store, Origin.At the moment those who are interested in picking up Crysis 2 and do not want a re... |
15 June 2011
03:22 GMT |
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A new report from the Entertainment Software Association shows that during the calendar year 2010 sales of video games on the United States market, the most important in the world, have slowed down and that digital distribution has increased its share of the market.The documents titled “2011 Essential Facts Abo... |
13 June 2011
15:21 GMT |
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After an early leak before the weekend, Electronic Arts has officially presented the Origin digital distribution service, which is practically an evolution of the regular EA Online Store and aims at competing with similar services like Valve's Steam or GameFly's Direct2Drive.EA has been persistent in its di... |
6 June 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Video game company Electronic Arts will have its E3 new conference during Monday but one major piece of news that it plans to deliver has already been revealed with various news outlets reporting that the publisher will introduce a new PC based digital distribution service called Origin.It seems that Origin will be v... |
3 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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A leading executive from video game publisher THQ has stated that his company has seen only a limited effect on sales because of the downtime of the PlayStation Network and especially its Store component.THQ has recently launched MX vs. ATV Alive, a game which relies heavily on the digital distribution model, but it ... |
2 June 2011
03:27 GMT |
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The publicly traded shares of video game publisher Electronic Arts have climbed by a healthy 2 percent in order to reach the highest level of the last year as a private investment fund called Relational Investors signaled that it aims to be more involved in the operation of the company.
The two entities have annou... |
1 June 2011
09:44 GMT |
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GameFly, one of the biggest video game rental services, has announced that it has acquired the digital distribution service Direct2Drive, which was created and maintained so far by IGN, itself a subsidiary of the Fox media empire.
The two companies have not revealed any details about the transaction, including the a... |
26 May 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Steam is at the moment the most popular and most successful digital distribution service on the PC platform, but one of the people in charge of it says that those who use it should not expect it to actually grow very much in the coming years.Valve, who created and evolved Steam into its current form, needs to play a ... |
11 May 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Video game developer and Steam creator Valve seems to not be interested in the creation of a comprehensive digital video game sales chart and says that one would in no way benefit the industry and might lead to developers getting the wrong idea about the state of the market.
Jason Holtman, who is the director of b... |
22 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Brian Farrell, who is the chief executive officer of video game publisher THQ, has suggested that the future of the industry he is part of is not linked to huge releases priced at the now-usual 60 dollars, but on the creation and launch of lower-priced games that will get to players via digital distribution platforms... |
19 April 2011
13:51 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which has launched yet another sales evaluation for the game industry in the United States for the month of March, has also released a new estimate about the whole of 2010, showing that that gamers have spent no less than 5.8 billion dollars on purely digital video games content.
During the entire y... |
15 April 2011
17:11 GMT |
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The debate over video games Digital Rights Management solutions seems to have died down a little in the last few months, but the people at Good Old Games are aiming to resurrect it by saying that the industry should drop protections altogether and deliver a smoother experience for the end user.
Lukasz Kukawski, wh... |
14 April 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA and developer Avalanche Studios have announced that they are working together to create Renegade Ops, a new cooperative military-themed shooter that will only be delivered to gamers via digital distribution.
The game is set to be launched during this year on the Xbox Live service from Mic... |
31 March 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will not be including paper instruction manuals in any of its future releases, in a move designed to save money for the company and to show that it is committed to becoming as green as possible.
The program started with Fight Night Champion, the boxing sim... |
22 March 2011
10:44 GMT |
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When Microsoft announced that last fall's Halo: Reach, the last game in the series created by original developer Bungie, would be launched on the Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360 home-gaming console, players saw it as a sign that the publisher is becoming more conformable with the idea of digitally distr... |
18 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which offers monthly sales data for the United States hardware and video game markets, has announced that it will begin offering data linked to digital sales in an effort to create a better picture of the video game industry and its evolution.
Anita Frazier, who is an analyst for the NPD Group, has ... |
17 March 2011
14:31 GMT |
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The video game publisher Konami Digital Entertainment and the movie studio Sony Pictures have announced that they are entering into a partnership to create a video game also named Battle: Los Angeles, designed to allow gamers to experience the cataclysmic events of the movie in a more interactive way. Konami says th... |
4 March 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game developer and Steam creator, Valve has announced that it will introduce a new service called Steam Guard, which is specifically designed to limit hijacking of accounts on its digital distribution platform by making sure that just an authorized computer can make changes to an account. The new Steam Guard i... |
4 March 2011
02:59 GMT |
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Valve wants to further upgrade its Steam digital distribution service by adding a more robust microtransaction system as well as through the implementation of cross-platform play.
Steam is by far the most successful and profitable digital distribution service on the PC and Mac, but this doesn't mean that Valv... |
3 March 2011
02:35 GMT |
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