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A cocktail of strong debate and sparkling wit was the outcome of sister site Develop’s first ever Jury Service feature, which resulted in a near-unanimous verdict that physical content is now on borrowed time. If you look at the model adopted by the music industry, it is getting rarer and …
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PSPgo ‘will die without price cuts
Sony’s handheld ‘for the digital lifestyle’ will die out if its downloadable software keeps to UMD prices, according to Traveller’s Tales director Jon Burton. I’m betting on Sony making PSPgo games much cheaper than the UMD versions, or the PSPgo will die,” he told Develop. He went on to describe …
Read More »SingStar sells 20m
Five and a half years since it first hit European retail shelves, Sony has confirmed that total worldwide sales of its SingStar series have now passed the 20m units barrier. The news comes as a number of new features go live for owners of the PS3 version, including a range …
Read More »PSPgo ‘will die without software price cutsâ??, says Burton
Travellerâ??s Talesâ?? Jon Burton foresees the end of physical media for games
Read More »Develop Jury: Digital to dominate?
Industry responds to Yoichi Wadaâ??s claim that physical gaming is heading for extinction
Read More »Develop Jury: Physical media extinction â??inevitableâ??
Majority of developers foresee a digital-only era, but few agree on when that will come
Read More »Gian Luzio leaves The Hut
The Hut product director Gian Luzio has left the retailer after less than a year. Luzio joined the firm following a successful stint at Play.com, where he helped grow the firm’s video games range. The Hut CEO Matthew Moulding stated: Gian made a positive impact on the business during the …
Read More »TDR reveals in-store marketing blitz
Total Disc Repair is to ramp up awareness for its disc cleaning machines with an in-store marketing campaign. The firm will release posters, counter boards, flyers, t-shirts, mugs and floor displays into independent retail, and have also created two consumer websites. The first site, playlikenew.com, promotes the benefits of disc …
Read More »Startup Smith & Tinker axes 30% of workforce
â??We staffed aggressively early on to meet deadlinesâ?, firm admits
Read More »Riccitiello: Digital to overtake boxed product in 2010
In the wake of EA’s long-expected purchase of social network gaming specialist Playfish earlier this month, boss John Riccitiello has predicted that emerging online-based gaming models will overtake traditional console gaming to become the dominant force by next year. When people think of games they traditionally think of the Xbox, …
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