Tag Archives: digital

It’s time to stand up and face up to that elephant in the corner of the room. Retailer GameStop has officially launched a digital games store on Facebook. It claims to be "he first multichannel gaming company to launch a storefront on Facebook and provide true social commerce to more …

UK consumers will be able to rent digital PC games from Direct2Drive later this year. The service lets gamers download and play their chosen PC game for five hours. Once the trial has finished, the full game is offered at a lower price. The company – owned by IGN – …

Trion Worlds’ ambitious online RPG Rift will be digitally distributed across Eastern Europe. TripleACodes will handle the game’s downloadable client and subscriptions. Eastern Europe is PC dominant and it’s hungry for MMOs right now,” said TripleACodes’ sales director Marcus Whitney. Rift is a perfect fit for our markets. It further …

Green Man Gaming occupies a unique position at the intersection of possibly the two hottest topics in the games industry – digital distribution and trade-ins. It couldn’t be more zeitgeisty if it dressed itself in a calendar and stripped off a layer every morning to reveal the new date. The …

MPs have been in negotiations with Internet Service Providers and intellectual rights holders to create a system that would allow access to be blocked to certain websites. According to the Open Rights Group, a letter from Mr. Vaizey confirmed that he’d been in discussions with stakeholders to create a working …

Many would have you believe that the death of the disc is inevitable. Global internet penetration is still rising and the range of content that people can download is expanding, to the extent where practically every device with a screen has access to some form of digital distribution. We have …

North American sales tracker and analyst firm NPD has confirmed the acquisition of mobile internet and digital entertainment analyst In-Stat. In-Stat will keep its name but now directly report to NPD’s Tim Bush. The move is simply the latest in a long line of buyouts that looks to position NPD …

The UK digital video games market is bigger than the music and DVD market combined, says retail body ERA. The firm estimates the digital games market made 411m last year, followed by music at 280.7m and digital video at 77.4m. Digital now accounts for 14.6 per cent of the entertainment …

Retailer GameStop has reported another set of record numbers for its 2010 fiscal year. Q4 2010 sales climbed 4.8 per cent to $3.69bn with like-for-like store sales increasing by 2.6 per cent. Net earnings jumped 10.1 per cent to $237.8m. For the full fiscal year total sales climbed 4.3 per …

As was rumoured yesterday, Capcom has confirmed that it will re-release both Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica in HD. Interestingly, both will be available only as digital downloads via Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network and will not be boxed releases at retail. Both will be release …