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Digital rights management fails to prevent illegal game sales, says digital download firm Good Old Games. Speaking at the 2011 London Games Conference, GoG.com’s MD Guillaume Rambourg said: DRM does not protect your product, I should think it will harm your sales in the long run. DRM does not protect …
Read More »‘The Old Republic will be the last big MMO’
LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE 2011: Free-to-play model is the future, says Nicholas Lovell
Read More »‘Handheld games consoles are doomed’
Gamesbrief analyst Nicholas Lovell believes dedicated handhelds are doomed and that PlayStation Home is the games sector’s ‘unsung hero’ in an entertaining and at times controversial speech at London Games Conference. In his talk he attempted to persuade the audience which company’s were going to survive the digital transition (or …
Read More »‘Digital revolution will help, not hinder retail’
LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE 2011: Growth for the industry can only be good for retail, GameStop boss says
Read More »GameStop: Digital sales will hit $35bn by 2014
Global retail giant GameStop predicts the digital games market will hit $35bn by 2014. The firm says the current value is around $20bn, so will grow by 75 per cent over the next two years. It also expects points card sales to double by 2014, rising by 110 per cent. …
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Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LGC: Last chance to book
Just a few tickets remain for UK's digital games summit on Thursday - Full schedule is online now
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE: Last chance to book
Time is running out to secure your place at Thursday’s London Games Conference. The full schedule for the event is now online to read outlining the excellent talks we have planned from Valve’s Jason Holtman, Xbox Live’s Robin Burrowes, GameStop’s Mike Mauler, Sega’s John Clark, plus Nicholas Lovell, Nick Parker, …
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LGC: Digital to surpass discs by 2015
Over half of games professionals polled predict sea-change within four years
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE: Should UKIE & Tiga unite?
The unification of trade bodies Tiga and UKIE would be approved by four times as many industry professionals as those who oppose, new data suggests. The results of a new survey, show that 58.1 per cent of industry respondents favour a merger of both groups, while only 14.9 per cent …
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