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The value of the PC digital distribution will comfortably sail past the $1bn barrier this year. According to Dorian Bloch, the business group director of GfK-ChartTrack – who was speaking on a panel discussion at this week’s Develop conference in Brighton – 2009 sales of games through the likes of …

Speaking at the Develop Conference, Sony’ Peter Edwards revealed that the return rate for PlayStation Home stands somewhere between 25-30 per cent, meaning that over 70 per cent of those who download and try the service do not return for a second time. Click here to read the full story …

Develop '09: Media Molecule on lost levels, arguing, and lessons learned

Develop '09: And 80% of those who try Sonyâ??s social hub are â??young malesâ??

Develop '09: And market for digital was $600m last year says GfK ChartTrack

Develop â??09: Jason Avent, of Split Second developer Black Rock, praises the power of ordinary people

Right now, when you mention downloadable content, someone will mention a horse armour joke, and we need to get around that,” says Tom Armitage, a writer for creative design consultancy group Schulze and Webb. Armitage, speaking to a packed-out room at the Develop conference in Brighton, was referring to the …

Platform-holder Sony is aggressively courting developers around the world to work on digitally distributed games for PSP in a bid to grow the software offer on its handheld. And, MCV’s sister site Develop has also revealed, the firm is planning to introduce a streamlined content pipeline for the platform – …

Develop '09: Studio hints at its future plans for NXE

The traditional console hardware cycle is broken – this we know. But veteran games developer Matt Spall yesterday went one further yesterday at the Develop Conference, claiming that we will never see another ‘traditional’ console coming to the market.

 Speaking of the rising importance of cloud computing, which was made …