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The first wave of free-to-play games have now gone live on Steam. Valve announced it is now offering support for such titles, including use of Steam’s micro-transaction backend system to handle in-game transactions. The system is already available to Steamworks partners and currently used in titles such as Team Fortress …
Read More »How Mind Candy won by failing over and over
The Moshi Monsters man bares all on reaching 50m subscribers from the brink of financial collapse
Read More »E3 2011: Xbox Live ‘too closed’ for Dust 514
Xbox Live is too closed for the developer of PS3 exclusive Dust 514. Speaking to Eurogamer during an E3 presentation, CCP CTO Halldor Fannar said: Let’s just say that with Sony at least they have policies that allow us to build the game the way we want.” That is one …
Read More »CCP: Xbox Live ‘too strict’ for MMOs
E3 2011: CCP says Microsoft service isnâ??t MMO friendly
Read More »SONY: Dust 514 is free on PS3
Developer CCP has placed a rather big feather in the PS3’s hat by confirming that shooter Dust 514 will be exclusive to Sony’s console. Dust 514 will link players to the real-time goings on of popular PC space MMO EVE Online. The consequences of the battles in the console game …
Read More »Digital chart plan at last?
The International Software Federation of Europe has vowed to solve the digital market research crisis – by sourcing data from gamers. The pan-European trade body, frustrated by a lack of concrete information, has formed a working group to tackle the issue and could potentially be offering a chart by the …
Read More »Interview: Spil Games’ Peter Driessen
Peter Driessen outlines the social gaming giantâ??s strategies for user engagement
Read More »Fox praises GAME’s digital strategy
HMV CEO Simon Fox has hailed GAME’s digital plans, telling MCV that the specialist is absolutely doing the right things”. He said HMV is looking closely at GAME’s strategy, whilst also evolving its own 7digital music service to include games and film. What GAME is doing makes total sense and …
Read More »Heath backs call for digital charts
Publishers must make sales figures of downloadable games public if the industry is to prosper. That’s the call from Geoff Heath OBE, who says a collective source of market data will allow trends to be spotted, opportunities to be taken and will ultimately lead to a stronger market for the …
Read More »Spil Games add activity feed to social gaming portals
Spil Games have introduced a new activity feed feature to their social gaming portals.
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