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Read More »Steam to start accepting Bitcoin payments
Support for virtual currency coming soon, with Valve promising it has ‘a system that insulates partners from risk and volatility ‘ in place
Read More »Ready At Dawn and Frozenbyte among first studios signed to new GameStop label
US retailer previously announced it would publish Insomniac’s Song of the Deep
Read More »GameStop talks digital pre-owned ‘barriers’, says new consoles ‘imminent’
Retail’s hope of integrating the digital games market into its pre-owned model looks less likely than ever. There have been various effort and legal attempts to enforce the allowed trade-in and resale of digital games over the years, but GameSpot reports that GameStop COO Tony Bartel has said at the …
Read More »The number of games released on Steam doubled in 2015
A new survey has fortified the perception of a growing saturation of games on Steam. According to EEDAR, nearly 3,500 retail and digital titles came to Steam in 2015 – more than twice the 1,500 launched in 2014. This was itself nearly triple the roughly 500 titles released in 2013, …
Read More »DSi Store to close next year
Forerunner to 3DS’ eShop put focus on indies and smaller titles
Read More »Valve loses Australian refund lawsuit
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ruled that Valve’s Steam service breached Australian consumer law. A disagreement between Valve and the ACCC kicked off in 2014 when the Steam owner was sued over its lack of refund policy. Such a policy was eventually introduced last year, but that …
Read More »Microsoft surveys about possible digital games buy-backs
Gamers may in the future be able to sell their digital Xbox purchases back to Microsoft. As spotted by Neogaf, a survey has been sent out to Xbox owners asking whether they’d be willing to hand their digital purchases back to Microsoft in return for a rebate (in the form …
Read More »Microsoft could yet bring digital game sharing to Xbox One
One of the features lost in Microsoft’s big Xbox One u-turn in 2013 could yet be revisited. Shortly after the Xbox One’s E3 2013 reveal the platform holder was forced to abandon much of the digital architecture it had designed for the console, amid a ferocious consumer backlash that still …
Read More »Hitman’s physical release pushed back to 2017
The physical version of Square Enix’s new Hitman won’t be released until next year. The boxed release had been due out before the end of the year, but the publisher has told Videogamer that it has been delayed – although the reason has not been specified. Hitman is released digitally …
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