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 isn’t about the new consoles’ inability to play movies on

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 their digital PC releases, they will also offer some first-party

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 new, unique and excellent sounding benefit. If you subscribe to

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 a digital exclusive for the first week. Go to your

The TechnoBuffalo staff meets and talks a lot. Conference calls of the weekly variety are a constant. The doughnuts promised by a certain Noah Kravitz, however, are not. More than that, though, are all of the interactions that go on every day. We chat with one another all the time.  It was in one of

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 to be released on July 5th, notes that 145 million

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, and featuring characters from the upcoming film Rio. In Angry

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. Consumers still take their music, movies, TV shows and games

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 for gamers. Before we tread out too far into these

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. As the general market abandons physical media, what is the