As the PC section at
your local games store continues to shrink, digital distribution services like
Steam continue to prosper. Today, Valve announced that Steam enjoyed its
seventh year of over 100% growth in sales. Is anyone even bothering to buy
boxed copies of PC titles anymore...
Sometimes, international perception of Australia has us so backwards that we’re thought to ride kangaroos down the street and consider that hat with the corks as the height of fashion. But according to figures detailing Australian and New Zealand game sales for the first half of 2012, the notion of the contrary antipode might be more fact than fiction.
Planning to join Dust 514's free-to-play party? Better bringing a few bucks for admission. CCP has confirmed it will be charging a small, one-time entry fee for access to its online first-person shooter; money which will then be handed back as in-game currency to be used in the free-to-play game's virtual economy...
Developer CCP recently confirmed it
will be canceling the entry fee for Dust 514, and instead be making
its Eve Online MMOFPS expansion free-to-play from the very start. New
details on the PS Vita “companion app” were also thrown in at no
extra charge...
The great experiment that is Dust 514 will officially begin later this month as CCP Games merges the game with EVE Online on the beta test servers...
It used to be that games and exercise went together like sex and tax preparation, but now the workout genre has grown to become one of the largest and most lucrative genres in the industry. In light of this sweat-sweat revolution, The Exergame Network (TEN) has seen fit to introduce its own health-based rating system, much to the dismissive wanking motions of gamers without kids everywhere...
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