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Key titles from Ubisoft’s back catalogue are on sale for 1 to promote its new digital distribution hub. At Gamescom yesterday the firm officially launched Uplay PC, a Steam- and Origin-a-like app that sells games and connects to the Uplay community and in-game achievements service. The Uplay service now has …
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Storefront to offer free-to-play game support
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Valve will present the community's best with new Hub pages
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Creativity and productivity software coming to distribution platform from September 5th
Read More »Non-games head to Steam as digital distribution competition heats up
Valve has added an important weapon to the arsenal supporting its games download service – and it’s non-games. From September 5th the firm will be selling ‘creativity to productivity’ software on the store which has 40m registered users. So that means non-games sold alongside Valve’s own Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 …
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57 independent developers signed up to bring content to online platform
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Publisher admits it has been too focused 'on what's to come' rather than on current issues
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Nintendo boss defends plans to set price point of digital and retail boxed products at same level for Wii U
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Nintendo 'to put a bigger focus' on downloadable content and digital distribution
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'I love Valve, but out of principle, I find the idea of one platform a bit scary', says Mojang boss
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