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Xbox One owners will soon be able to pre-order titles via the Xbox Live marketplace. That’s according to Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac, which in an episode of Sunset TV – as spotted by Joystiq – has said: If you pre-order the game digitally, you will get the Day One Edition …
Read More »Sold Out warns indies not to ignore traditional market
Publishing label Sold Out has told indies they shouldn’t ignore the opportunities that remain available in the traditional boxed market. Further to a recent deal struck with Worms developer Team 17, Sold Out is now on the hunt for new indie development partners that it argues are missing on substantial …
Read More »Brazil games market slows, other Latin countries on the rise – Superdata
New research from Superdata shows that Brazil’s digital games market has cooled off, while other areas in Central and South America have picked up significantly. The organization’s report states that while Brazil is still considered the crown jewel” of the Latin America games market, countries like Mexico and Argentina are …
Read More »GAME giving away free downloadable Charizard for Pokemon X and Y
The Pokemon Company has teamed up with GAME once again to give gamers a free downloadable character. Charizard, complete with Mega Stone (or Charizardite for those fans out there), can either be downloaded via Nintendo Zone, or gamers can ask for the character at the till. Fans will need to …
Read More »Mountain aiming for Steam and Android release
Having made a lot of noise this last week, Mountain could be making its way to higher ground. Made by David O’Reilly, the ambient $1 game sees players… well, what you actually do seems to be down to interpretation. Players watch the mountain, certainly. Do they interact with it? Opinion …
Read More »‘DLC is pretty much accepted’, says Ubisoft
Modern games consumers are comfortable with the amount of additional digital content and extras that accompany modern games. That’s according to Ubisoft’s VP of digital publishing Chris Early, who told Games Industry that there was no resistance” to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s ‘Time Saver’ DLC that allowed players to …
Read More »Indie retailers can now sell Nintendo download games
Independent games retailers are now able to sell digital games for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The service is being provided by CentreSoft subsidiary DLCSoft, which already lets indies sell digital PlayStation games. Nintendo games will be available from mid-July. In an email seen by MCV, DLCSoft said that it …
Read More »Digital costs more than you think
Leading games industry analyst and SuperData CEO Joost van Dreunen on how the move to digital isn’t generating revenue quite as easily as some companies might have hoped… I attended several analyst meetings at this year’s E3. Almost unanimously publishers pointed toward digital – the transition to digital development, publishing …
Read More »Microsoft reiterates that Family Sharing could return to Xbox One
Some of the digital functionality stripped from Xbox One in the weeks after E3 2013 is currently scheduled to make a return. "We looked at the digital features that we had talked about last year and as a gamer there were a lot of those features that I think really …
Read More »GAME Wallet adds new digital payment options
Reward Card points and Gift Card credit can now be combined in the GAME Reward app. Users of the GAME Reward app will now be able to combine any credit they have gained by spending cash in store with any Gift Card credit into a single GAME Wallet account. Furthermore, …
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