News Tagged: digital distribution

Wow, this is impressive to say the least. Judging from the data on Steam’s player stats page, Vavle's digital service reached five million concurrent users. By the way, don't forget to check out the Steam January Holiday Sales. Thanks, PC Gamer.

More and more games are coming out each year, especially now through appstores and other forms of digital distribution. As a result, the ESRB is somewhat overtaxed and can no longer continue to do the traditional three-person committee that usually assigns content ratings to games...

Some people (Electronic Arts and Activision) are both suggesting that NPD retail data may be borked because it fails to take into account sales made through digital distribution. Here's a neat quote summing up EA's position on the matter: "Using NPD data for video game sales is like measuring music sales and ignoring something called iTunes...

Microsoft announced recently that it's going to dive into the PC digital distribution race with its "Games on Demand for Windows" service. The service has kicked off, though it isn't much of a choice at the moment: Battlestations: Pacific - $34...

Starting December 15 Games for Windows – LIVE "will evolve beyond LIVE gaming and include a portal for accessing and downloading your favorite LIVE-enabled titles…courtesy of Games on Demand." Games on Demand for Windows will allow gamers to purchase and download from...

Speakers at this month's London Games Conference are going to highlight 'digital distribution' as the show's main topic (thanks Blue). There are certain predictions that digital sales are going to surpass retail sales by 2013; only the problem is that roughly 40% of the industry is not prepared for such a major shift...

Microsoft announced that Xbox 360 titles will soon be available to purchase and download. "We're launching full retail games on demand [this year]," said Microsoft general manager Mark Whitten. "We'll be launching this in August with a portfolio of about 30 titles...