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Pikachu is cute and all, but when it comes to battling Pokémon it doesn't get much better than Mewtwo. Players of Pokémon Black and White can witness this power first-hand starting February 12. More »
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Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in. More »
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With a Victini-themed sweepstakes, the limited theatrical release of Pokémon the Movie: White-Victini and Zekrom, and a special December distribution event, players will be hard-pressed to elude the victory Pokémon this holiday, not that they'd want to. More »
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Deep Silver is a lovely little company, but when a game generates the sort of buzz Dead Island stirred up with its stunning trailer, the big guns need to be called in. That's why Techland's zombie vacation game is coming to the Americas via Square Enix. More »
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Online gaming innovator InstantAction may have just changed the way games are distributed on the internet, with the introduction of a service that lets publishers embed games like The Secret of Monkey Island as easily as a YouTube video. More »
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Every day this week, Steam will be featuring special deals on Ubisoft PC titles, with Assassin's Creed up first on the block. More »
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Square Enix continues to further their global agenda today as they announce an agreement with Ubisoft to distribute the French publisher's titles throughout Japan. More »
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After his recent chat with game pirates, independent developer Cliff Harris of Positech Games muses on pricing structure of games, as 'cost' was listed as a major reason for piracy. As he points out, plenty of other products have a wide continuum that ranges from 'economy' to 'deluxe'; games can often be divided into 'normal' and 'collectors' editions. Why can't we go a bit further, he asks: More »
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The Escapist has an interesting article up on mainstream industry types who went indie — it delves into the reasoning behind a move, as well as the challenges and the positive aspects of moving from big studios to independent development. People making the transition have had to unlearn 'mainstream' habits or pick up new skills (like learning the tools of the PR trade) — and even with the plethora of portals and distribution options, the 'independent' distribution channels are still fraught with pitfalls, from distribution limitations to piracy: More »
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Daniel Cook of Lost Garden has another thought provoking article up on Gamasutra, this one on the casual games market. Targeted more at developers, it's still an interesting look at the promises and pitfalls of the current distribution models: More »
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Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong are also going to have Warhammer Online to look forward to — GigaMedia and EA recently announced an agreement to distribute the game in the three places. EA and GigaMedia announced last November plans to distribute NBA Street Online in the same three territories, so this is building on a previous relationship. Sadly, since the press release is not coming from a Mainland company, there's no delightfully bad prose; the standard fare release is after the jump. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351983&view=rss&microfeed=true A survey over at Screen Digest points to a ripening market for the Games On Demand downloadable service and digital distribution in general. More »
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