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IGN, Screen Digest and renamed trade body UKIE are already backing the return of the London Games Conference in November. With a theme of ‘Survival And Profit In A Changing Industry’ LGC 2010 will focus on shifts in revenues, platforms and distribution methods for game content. The event will take …
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Playfish and Jagex explain how they succeeded - and why traditional publishers have failed
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Xbox Live boss says streaming machines wonâ??t be mass-market â??for the foreseeable futureâ??
Read More »LGC 09: UK PC chart to include downloads
GfK-ChartTrack ready to incorporate data from digital distribution from next year
Read More »LGC 09: ‘Beware the death of the disc’
Traditional PR and marketing, competition with rivals, and boxed product – all of these things face extinction when digital downloads take hold. That’s according to a panel of online games experts grilled by industry veteran Phil Harrison at this evening’s London Games Conference. Playfish’s Kristian Segerstrale, Mark Gerhard from Jagex …
Read More »LGC 09: Microsoft dismisses OnLive threat
Microsoft has dismissed the possibility of streaming technology such as OnLive and Gaikai damagaing its Xbox business for the foreseeable fututure.” Speaking at London Games Conference this evening, Xbox Live EMEA boss Jerry Johnson told BAFTA HQ – packed by industry delegates – that streaming tech was not on an …
Read More »LGC 09: UK PC chart to include download sales from 2010
ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch has this evening revealed that the firm will start including PC download sales in its charts from the start of 2010. "From the start of next year, whoever is ready to contribute data, be they publisher or digital distributor will be able to come on board …
Read More »LGC 09: Luzio – Digital-only market would be geeky
A market that only offers digital video games would be geeky”, inaccessible – and undo the market expansion the industry has achieved in recent years. That was the view of The Hut product director Gian Luzio at the London Games Conference today. Speaking on a panel entitle ‘The New Food …
Read More »LGC 09: Will downloads be worth more than retail after 2014?
The games industry will see a major tipping point towards digital distribution – and finally experience its ‘the iTunes moment – by 2014, according to analyst Nick Parker. Referencing reams of data, and an industry survey which grilled key execs on the future of digital downloads, he said that serious …
Read More »LGC: Everything you need to know
Leading developers and pioneers of digital distribution unite at the inaugral London Games Conference
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