Posts Tagged ‘Digital Distribution’
Games On Demand: Shooting Yourself In The Foot
I’ve always been a big ambassador for retail. It’s not really the retail side of things that keeps me damning digital distribution. I just love having a physical product that I can put on a shelve, look at before playing and retain some sense of ownership after a server or service goes down. That’s just [...]
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Name Your Own Price For Championship Manager 2010
We’ve championed Championship Manager 2010 to narrow the gap between the always great Football Manager and the recently struggling CM. Improved scouting and a bespoke 3D engine will help them close down the gap on Sports Interactive but their recent shot will do more.
This is because Eidos are now “giving something back to the fans” [...]
Lazy Wednesday: Without A Connection
I sit here on what feels like a never-ending Wednesday playing Max Payne and listening to the Shatter soundtrack. Why does it feel like today will never end? Well that’s because the local exchange is having issues meaning the internet is a bust.
When it returns I fear having to open Google Reader to the thousands [...]
Flat Fact: Buying What You Want Is Too Much Work
Piracy paranoia, forced digital distribution, patches, money and online validation. Welcome to the new age where weekend game shopping should give you experience points upon purchase.
I don’t know what to say, apart from the piracy paranoia is getting out of control. It’s not just game developers and publishers with mass amounts of DRM but its [...]
The Hot Topic: OnLive’s Ownership Debate
The future direction of gaming, the next evolutionary step or the current innovative trend for the industry. However you hear it described, you still can’t believe that this service is meant to see the light of day at the end of the year. It could be all of these things and more but it could [...]
Click Here For More >The Hot Topic : Is Digital Distribution A Good Thing?
So the format wars are over and Blu-Ray disks are now the medium of choice or so we thought, as literally seconds after the announcement of HD-DVD, Toshiba and Microsoft hailed digital distribution. Now I’m all for Downloadable Content as long as it isn’t horse armor but would you seriously like to see the digital [...]
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