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EA’s digital-only Battlefield 1943 has been downloaded over one million times. The announcement occurred during EA’s Gamescom press conference ahead of the reveal for retail release, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Last month it was announced that the DICE-developed game had smashed day one and week on sales records on Xbox …
Read More »PC downloads ‘worth $1bn in 2009’
Develop '09: And market for digital was $600m last year says GfK ChartTrack
Read More »Napster snubs games downloads
One of Europe’s biggest music download sites, Napster, has told MCV that it has ruled out a move into the digital download video games market. Despite the enviable performance of the video games sector – and Napster reporting 23 per cent revenue growth for the full fiscal year 2007-2008 – …
Read More »Microsoft: Forget HD-DVD the future is digital distribution
Speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian , UK Xbox boss Neil Thompson has insisted that his company did not back the wrong horse when it supported Toshiba and its HD-DVD high definition disc format. "The horse that we’re fundamentally backing is the one that says the future of entertainment content …
Read More »New Kuju studio focuses on digital downloads
UK-based developer Kuju is to launch a new studio named Double Six that will focus on the production of digital download titles for emerging networks such as Xbox Live Arcade, Wii Ware, PlayStation Network and casual PC games portals, Gamesindustry reports. We believe that there are some great opportunities out …
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