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UK wholesale and distribution firm widens its digital trade reach

Olivier Comte takes charge or redesigned business development, marketing and sales team

Nintendo boss thinks bricks and mortar will remain dominant gaming force until 2029

Shawn D. Freeman becomes Senior Vice President and GM of Digital Business

Distributor swoops for independent rival

Says that the future of video games will not be dominated by retail-free models

What a difference a few years make. I remember when, as a junior reporter on MCV about five years ago, one senior publishing boss warned me away from talking about digital distribution – at all, I hadn’t even put pen to paper yet – as if it was some evil menace. The less coverage it got, he explained, the happier he and his retail friends would be. But you can’t fight the internet.

Studios ‘left in the dark’ on sales data cannot plan accordingly, says Doublesix

Some rare concrete sales numbers for record-breaker Battlefield 1943 outline true scale of digital market

DEVELOP’09: And market for digital was $600m last year says GfK ChartTrack

DEVELOP'09: It won’t be long before 100 per cent of games are all online,' says veteran designer

Distributor says lots of non-traditional retailers are looking to enter games market

Gamessence.com teams with Metaboli to offer ‘hundreds of titles’

E3’09: Retail breathes a sigh of relief as Microsoft confirms new on-demand service is for back-catalogue only

Reports that publisher will push digital sales of its upcoming golf game

Publisher secures UK exclusivity for acclaimed Japanese developer’s titles

US arm of Amazon seemingly breaks one of the big digital boundaries with Xbox Live Arcade code sales

Primary and secondary distribution agreement signed with UK firm

Former EUK sales manager joins Croydon-based company Creative Distribution