SCEE president Andrew House has deep reservations over digital downloading. He acknowledges that digital is becoming an increasingly important part of the games market, but believes it still has significant challenges to overcome. The reason retail has been around for thousands of years is because it works really well at …
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Infinity Blade breaks App Store records
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Read More »Gameseek celebrates 10th birthday
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Read More »House: Camera-only gaming is limited
SCEE chief Andrew House claims Microsoft will ‘hit a wall’ when creating new games for Kinect. He says Sony learnt from the EyeToy that only a limited number of experiences can be had with cameras, adding that this isn’t a problem he has with Move. We pioneered camera-based gaming with …
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