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Digital retailer Green Man Gaming has partnered with Future’s computerandvideogames.com. Whenever the online website reports on a relevant PC title, users to the site will be given the opportunity to click through and buy or pre-order the game digitally. The new partnership replaces Future’s previous deal with Metaboli and is …
Read More »Molyneuxs digital dream
Almost a year after Fable II, Microsoft and Lionhead re-released the game in episodic chunks over Xbox Live. And the game’s creative director Peter Molyneux feels digital is the way to reach an even broader audience. Retail will get you to 70 or 80 per cent of the people who …
Read More »Blitz: No discs for PS4/Xbox720
Platform holders’ desire to gain complete control of the software retail chain will mean that the next generation of home consoles will not include any capacity for digital media, developer Blitz Games Studios has stated. Let’s be honest, a lot of us have got smart phones,” CEO Philip Oliver told …
Read More »10m daily downloads for App Store
Apple has announced that its App Store has now passed the seven billion downloads milestone, up from 6.5 billion at the start of September. That means the store is currently doing 10 million downloads every day – more than Android Market, BlackBerry App World and Android Market combined. (There’s some …
Read More »GOW Collection hitting PSN
Having arrived on retail shelves on Blu-ray in April of this year, Sony has confirmed that its PS3 God of War: Collection will now be released digitally on PSN. The retail version of the SKU included re-workings of PS2 hits God of War and God of War 2, both with …
Read More »Take-Two predicts digital boom
The CEO of Rockstar and 2K Games owner Take-Two has claimed that digital games sales could account for as much as 40 per cent of the publisher’s total business by 2013. However, he foresees this as additional revenue, claiming that the growth will not come at the expense of traditional …
Read More »New games claim just 59% of market
A preview of NPD’s upcoming Games Industry: Total Consumer Spend Report has revealed that boxed, new game releases now account for just 59 per cent of the total video games market in North America. The report found that in the first half of 2010 US consumers spent $3.7bn on new, …
Read More »MS bundles digital Alan Wake
Microsoft has launched a new console bundle that for the first time features one of its triple-A retail releases in digital form. Kotaku reports that a new Xbox 360 S 250GB SKU includes a traditional boxed copy of Forza 3 as well as a copy of psychological thriller Alan Wake …
Read More »Moore: People see Online Pass as a plus
Publisher EA has once again defended its use of the Online Pass system in its console-based sports titles.It’s a tactic that has provoked some debate, but Moore believes the arguments have died down and that the benefits are clear. As we speak, because the FIFA 11’s only just come out, …
Read More »Channel 4 cuts digital investment arm
Channel 4’s new chief executive David Abraham is to scrap 4IP, the broadcaster’s ₤20 million digital investment arm. Connected divisions within Channel 4 are also to merge as part of a wide-ranging restructure operation. Redundancies are possible though, at this stage, have not been implemented. The full impact of 4IP’s …
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