Not everyone that purchases downloadable PC games does it because they prefer shopping at home. Some of them just hate discs and boxes. Maybe it's an environmental thing. Perhaps their father was killed by a DVD. Whatever the case, GameStop's in-store digital PC game purchase method is perfect for those types.
GameStop's purchase of Steam rival Impulse comes to a head today, as the video game retail giant fully integrates the PC game digital download service into its online store. Now, instead of purchasing a downloadable PC game through GameStop.com, you can go to Steam instead, like you were doing already anyway.
Not content to dominate digital downloads on the Mac and PC, Valve is heading to GDC 2011 with plans for a "big picture" mode, a controller-friendly version of Steam perfect for playing on your big-screen television.
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It's not the fact that Atlus has released a selection of its best PSP games in downloadable form on the PlayStation Network, but how they announce said release: no more purposefully undersupplying retail channels!
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Amazon.com becomes an extension of the PlayStation Store today, as the online retailer begins offering access codes to PlayStation Network add-on content and games for the PlayStation 3 and PSP.
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Game retailer GameStop is clearly taking the threat of digital distribution seriously, creating a new position within the company—General Manager, Digital Media—and putting Chris Petrovic to work on generally managing all that stuff.
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New York Governor David Paterson's December tax proposal that would see the state nickel and diming downloadable content has been scrapped in favor of large amounts of federal stimulus money.
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Phantom Entertainment, creators of the doomed-from-the-start Phantom gaming console, have just launched their very own online video game store, while also announcing funding for the next production run of their Phantom Lapboards.
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