By Ron Duwell |
Looks like many of SEGA’s financial woes have finally caught up with them as the gaming company has begun closing its offices in Spain, France, Germany, Benelux, and Australia. Sega UK still remains, but the one-time dominant corp has all but wrapped up development business…
By Joey Davidson |
This morning, we posted a rumor regarding Microsoft’s next console. The follow-up to the Xbox will not, supposedly, include a disc drive for physical media. This, gamers, is not good news. My argument for why this is a problem comes down to one point. This…
By Killian Bell |
The U.K.’s biggest specialist games retailers, and my favorite places to frequent after picking up my traditional Saturday morning latte, are set to embrace digital distribution for the PlayStation 3 by offering downloadable games in store from today. Game and Gamestation have announced that alongside…
By Joey Davidson |
GameFly has announced the beta for a massive gaming hub available to both subscribers and non-subscribers starting this holiday. Players will be able to purchase and download games, read a stream of gaming news and share their libraries with friends. Subscribers will, however, enjoy a…
By Damon Brown |
So there’s this guy, Jay-Z, who mentored another guy, Kanye West. They both became fairly successful artists. One day, probably while getting drunk at a Parisian fashion show, they suddenly decide to do an album together. Get this, though: They are going to make it…
By Jack McGrath |
New data from market research firm Newzoo has found that United States consumer spending on video games in 2011 will reach a total of $21.6 billion, just a bit lower than 2010′s statistics. In addition to this statistic, The 2011 Games Market Revenue Report, due…
By Emily Price |
The Amazon App Store for Android will come out swinging when it launches in the next few months, scoring exclusivity for the Android version of the upcoming Angry Birds title Angry Birds Rio. The game was developed by Rovio in conjunction with Twentieth Century Fox,…
By Joey Davidson |
According to the Vice President of Marketing at Namco Bandai, video game retail is going to be here forever. It’s been a constant consideration on the minds of publishers, developers and consumers ever since digital distribution started to rear up and show us its potential.…
By Joey Davidson |
Digital distribution is a scary future for the gaming industry. Not for publishers and marketplaces, but for consumers. While companies operating under the model of digital distribution may show it off as the land of sunshine, rainbows and roses, it’s a grim and unfortunate place…
By Jack McGrath |
If we have learned anything from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it’s that Internet-based media is infiltrating the market faster than ever. GameStop, a popular brick-and-mortar game retailer, has grappled with translating its model to an online world for quite some time.…
