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OnLive CEO Steve Perlman has told MCV that next year some of OnLive’s publishing partners are planning to ship disc products that contain a code entitling consumers to play via OnLive at no extra cost. They know that that means their customer can play wherever they are and have a …

With the barebones bricks and mortar retail charts becoming increasingly redundant, two US bodies have joined forces to bring digital sales figures into the fray. NPD and EEDAR have announced that they are to collaborate on future retail reports so that they combine both boxed retail sales and digital expenditure. …

The global games market is getting pretty close to a 50/50 split between digital and physical revenue, according to a senior EA Sports exec. EA Sports worldwide studio boss Andrew Wilson told attendees at the opening day of the Brighton Develop conference that the firm’s research says last year digital …

With 3DS just weeks away, NGP on the horizon, and continued growth in iPad and mobile, 2011 is shaping up to be a transformative year for portable games. But that means retailers will have to face up to some tough facts of life. These platforms are proving to be the …

The switch from boxed to digital goods is going to happen far quicker than most of the industry has expected, according to EA CEO John Riccitiello. In fact, the outspoken exec thinks that even by the end of this year digital revenues will exceed revenues from the sales of physical …

PC MMO title World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sold 3.3m copies in its first 24 hours on sale, developer Blizzard has announced. The company says the numbers make it the best selling PC title of all time. Previous WoW release Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8m copies in its first …

Twelve months after Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada predicted the demise of physical media, another games industry stalwart has declared that the days of packaged games are numbered. John Carmack, one of the most respected and longstanding game programmers in the world, believes digital distribution is the natural and inevitable …

The market boom that enveloped the video games market in 2008 will never again be recaptured, analyst Screen Digest has warned. A gradual eradication of RRP, the disruption of the console hardware cycle and the rise of digital means that the High Street has only decline to come, analyst Ben …

The UK market won’t recapture the Wii heyday of 2008 for some time, according to Screen Digest. During last week’s London Games Conference senior analyst Ben Keen revealed that even as digital sales grow, and reach parity with boxed products, a spending gap in year-on-year comparisons will emerge. In the …

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 …