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A new report from DFC Intelligence predicts that digitally distributed games will account for 66 per cent of total overall games revenue by 2017. It also predicts a significant expansion in the overall games software market, which it believes will grow from $52m now to $70bn in five years. Interestingly, …

Latest crowd-funding hit headed by American author Neil Stephenson

UK tech firm Antix Labs is to establish its eponymous games distribution platform in Indonesia. Antix has been beavering away on the Antix Game Player for years. Its vision is to create a new format that allows gamers to play, share and even copy games with friends whatever the device …

It’s three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It holds on to the top spot despite a 48 per cent week-on-week fall in sales. It joins an exclusive club of titles …

A Reddit tipster has seemingly leaked the first details of Mass Effect 3’s ending-altering DLC. User dertemp6698, who Kotaku credits as trustworthy owing to previous accurate leaks, published the following press blurb for the content: An expanded ending for Mass Effect 3. Additional scenes and an extended epilogue reveal the …

The cancellation of Inside Xbox has been described as logical by Xbox Europe interactive entertainment VP Chris Lewis. The show, which was broadcast on Xbox Live, was scrapped in May, with Microsoft saying that it had decided to move away from the current first-party produced content model and transition to …

Microsoft has said that consumers can expect its new SmartGlass technology to be incorporated into every first party title following its autumn release. "It just makes so much sense for a developer who wants to supply, maybe not time-critical information, like ‘that enemy is getting ready to shoot you,’ but …

DLC and premium services 'milking customers to death', says Cevat Yerli

No difference between core and social games, says Kojima

Potential relocation to take advantage of generous tax rates