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Far from protecting the games industry, DRM is actually damaging it according to the MD of download site Good Old Games Guillaume Rambourg. GoG.com offers a number of titles, all of which are completely free of any digital rights management restrictions. To beat piracy, our offer to gamers had to …

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Good old Games is the second most popular digital distributor for PC games. Not bad for a service selling retro and back catalogue titles. MD Guillaume Rambourg spoke to MCV about ditching DRM and reeducating publishers.. For those unfamiliar with it, give us the GOG.com history lesson. GOG is part …

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OTOY partnership brings cloud computing and new 3D rendering services to middleware giant's portfolio

Further Android devices could be supported, SCE chief Hirai claims

Three years after it was first announced a dark cloud now hangs over id’s long-awaited Doom 4. Kotaku claims to have word from a source close to publisher Bethesda that parent company Zenimax has decided to "indefinitely postpone" development of the game. The decision is said to stem from concerns …

Publisher EA has confirmed that its snowboarding series reboot SSX will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 in the US on February 14th. This almost certainly points to a European release date of February 17th. The game was first announced in December last year, with then EA Sports president …

Publisher's Peter Hines says no id software game has been stalled - indefinitely or otherwise