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GameStop, the specialist video game retailer, has announced a drop in both profits and revenues for the fiscal fourth quarter of the year while pointing out that it is still shifting its business model in order to incorporate digital distribution.
The company announced that, for the quarter that ended on January 28,... |
23 March 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Video game publisher and developer Stardock has announced that it has plans to reveal a number of new video games in the coming months via its just released annual Customer Report, with the company fuelled in large part by the money it has received from the sale of its Impulse digital distribution system.
Stardock p... |
22 March 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Gamers can now purchase and download the space based strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire, created by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock, from Steam and the publisher is saying that this is just the first game from their catalog that arrives on the Valve made digital distribution service.The game can now be pi... |
17 November 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Impulse Technology, a company based in Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against software giant and Kinect developer Microsoft, saying that the company is in breach of no less than seven of its patents that are linked to how the movement of a player is tracked in order to be translated into inputs for video games. The paten... |
25 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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A new report coming from a firm called Baird Equity Research says that until 2014 specialist game retail chain GameStop will grow its overall sales to 1.5 billion dollars by using its brick and mortar stores and its new digitally oriented strategy.
Analyst Colin Sebastian says that the executives working at GameSt... |
18 July 2011
16:01 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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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 publisher Stardock has made the news recently because it has sold its Impulse digital distribution service to retail giant GameStop, but one of the leading developers working at the company says that the gaming division will soon be the source of big news.Derek Paxton, who is working as produ... |
5 May 2011
04:51 GMT |
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A lot of publishers and developers might still be seeing the PC as a dying platform when it comes to gaming, but at least one company that focuses heavily on the platform says that a new graphics revolution will make it much better than gaming consoles pretty soon.
Speaking to Destructiod, Brad Wardell, who is the... |
11 April 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Specialist video game retailer GameStop has announced that it is buying up the Impulse digital distribution service that was created by Stardock and that it is also aiming to purchase Spawn Labs, a company that specializes in the development of streaming technology.
The acquisition includes the Impulse Reactor sui... |
1 April 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Video-game publisher and developer Stardock has announced that it had a difficult year in 2010, mainly because of the rather rocky launch process for their fantasy-based strategy title Elemental: War of Magic, but that the company is looking forward to a much brighter 2011, complete with one big announcement about th... |
23 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Direct2Drive is one of the players in the digital distribution space on the PC and aims to create more interest in the video games that it delivers to players through the newly launched “Tell a Friend” initiative.
The service is backed by IGN and the new program is the first one designed to create loy... |
3 February 2011
03:04 GMT |
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For a long time the Valve powered Steam service has been thought to dominate the digital distribution market on the PC, but there was little data related on how much of the market share it had. Now the customer report which Stardock, creators of the rival Impulse service, released shines light on the issue.Brad ... |
23 November 2009
03:23 GMT |
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Digital download services Impulse and GamersGate have announced that, like Direct2Drive, they will not be selling copies of Modern Warfare 2, the upcoming first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision, because of its use of the Steamworks service for things such as authentication and patch delivery.The state... |
9 November 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Stardock has announced that Impulse, the digital distribution service that it has created is now supported by two of the biggest publishers, Activision and Ubisoft, which are offering their games through it.Impulse is one of the latest comers to the digital distribution scene, competing with other services like Steam... |
16 June 2009
02:33 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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So far so good for the videogames industry. Despite the world wide economic crisis, it's still going strong, growing year over year, even if the percentages are not as big as in 2008. But as the recession continues to blast customers everywhere and especially in the three big markets of North America, the United... |
28 March 2009
07:11 GMT |
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It's nice to see the Chief Executive Officer of a major videogame company talk frankly about costs and revenue. And it's especially nice to see someone show how small development teams, with rather limited budgets and a good feel of their potential audience, can create videogames that are successful both in... |
27 March 2009
15:51 GMT |
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A recent editorial piece published in the Edge gaming magazine proclaims that gaming has entered a so called “Age of Steam” during which the digital distribution service from Valve is set to become more and more important for gaming on the PC.Not many people would have the guts to disagree with this evalu... |
12 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad are announcing that they have released Entrenchment, the first mini expansion for the RTS Sins of a Solar Empire. You can get it through the Impulse digital delivery system from Stardock for the low price of 9.95 dollars.As the name implies, Entrenchment is based on the idea of giv... |
26 February 2009
13:21 GMT |
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The theory according to which we all have an inner genius waiting to be discovered has been addressed now by a team of scientists that built a device that affects the brain activity through a series of magnetic impulses. They are hoping to tap more of the brain's potential with their newly-developed cap.So far, ... |
30 September 2008
10:44 GMT |
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With so many new digital download services coming online, like Stardock's Impulse and Good Old Games, it was inevitable that, at some point, the fledgling DLC industry would have to turn to consolidation to create more profitable and widely available services.Turner Broadcasting System is announcing that it has ... |
25 September 2008
03:14 GMT |
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The Ironclad developed and Stardock published real time space strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire went over 400,000 boxes sold, while the digital download version of the game was ordered by more than 100,000 people. With combined sales of more than 500,000 units, the game is a surprising success taking into account... |
8 September 2008
04:50 GMT |
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The digital download services out there seem to be entering a golden age. Steam, coming from Valve, already has a pretty large library and big titles, like STALKER: Clear Sky, are getting released on Steam at the same time they are available in retail stores. Now Stardock is pushing hard for its own digital download... |
1 September 2008
06:54 GMT |
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When Sins of a Solar Empire was launched, a lot of people doubted the changes that a 4X title featuring a slow pace and incredible fleet on fleet battles had on today's videogame market. But Ironclad and Stardock managed to create a very good game, which sold well despite the fact that, until recently, it was no... |
2 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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PCs are dying. You'll hear this mantra many times and you might read it even more often on various gaming sites. There are those that love PC gaming and upon hearing such news, try to move their player base away from personal computers and towards consoles. Epic has recently done it and Crytek is also announcing... |
26 June 2008
18:06 GMT |
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No hope for Winona Ryder ...A small clinical research at the Stanford University School of Medicine investigating kleptomania did not find any effective benefit for patients with the impulsive stealing disorder (guilt-ridden, impulsive stealing of inexpensive and unneeded items), even if an open possibility remains t... |
17 March 2007
10:19 GMT |
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