Boing Boing:
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyo (Read More)
Kotaku:
Just about everybody involved with digital distribution is coy when it comes to sales numbers. Nobody wants to give the game away. But that doesn't stop some - like publishers/online retailers Stardock - from trying to guess! Stardock boss Brad Wardell says "Our estimation is that Steam - as the current market leader - enjo (Read More)
From what I've observed, it seems that some of the casual game distributors are gaining a lot of silent customers. Portals like WildTangent get installed on OEM PCs as a branded game application (alongside Stardock's software). I would bet they have a decent stake of the market.
Engadget:
Even if you don't have a favored fighter in the browser wars, you have to admit Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been looking mighty unfit over the last few years. Younger and fitter contenders like Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have arguably overtaken the old stalwart, and now Microsoft is making some much-needed (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week. Doorbuster items marked with an * Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a - Free (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Tony Hawk Ride comes with a skateboard controller. You know what that means: dogs playing video games. What's amazing about this video is just how good this dog is. Impressive! [YouTube]
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videogaming247:
Steam’s popular. How popular? This popular.“Our estimation is that Steam – as the current market leader – enjoys approximately 70 percent of the overall digital distribution market with Impulse at 10 percent and all others combined at 20 percent in terms of actual dollars generated per month,” said Stardock chief Brad Warde (Read More)
Gizmodo:
That Nene Anegasaki, she's a charmer. She's also a video game character from extreme dating sim Love Plus, now wedded to a flesh and blood gamer. The two were married when a man brought his DS along with a copy of Love Plus to a church in Guam. There's no word on honeymoon plans, but the two will be holding a small receptio (Read More)
Kotaku:
Speaking to Edge Magazine in an interview about his upcoming game, Command & Conquer 4, Producer Raj Joshi laments that real time strategy gamers get their kicks "entirely ... from smashing another human in a videogame." The full Joshi quote as pulled by Gamerzines reads: "RTS players are great people but some of them have (Read More)
Kotaku:
I'm sure opera, movies and cave paintings are fine forms of entertainment, but can any of them derive fun from such a mundane activity as directing traffic? After a several weeks of inactivity, the Art Style series hs returned to North America's DSiWare shop with Digidrive an abstract puzzle game about directing traffic tha (Read More)
Kotaku:
Left 4 Dead 2 fans longing not for Francis, Bill, Zoey and Louis but for Dead Air, No Mercy, Death Toll and Blood Harvest have one more reason to go for the PC version of the zombie apocalypse shooter. Industrious Left 4 Dead modders have devised a not-exactly-simple workaround to bring the original game's four campaigns in (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
There really is something to be said about being the first to the dance. I’m pretty sure we can all agree that Steam was the first big digital distribution service for video games, and I also think we can all agree that it was something of a success. But how big a success? Stardock, which owns the Impulse distribution servi (Read More)
Shacknews Games:
With the weekend approaching, it's time for another round of deals and discounts on PC games from the usual suspects: Steam, GOG, Impulse, D2D and GamersGate.This week's sales include a number of LucasArts discounts, along with savings on Grand Theft Auto IV, Supreme Commander, King's Bounty, and others:SteamFronlines: Fuel (Read More)
Computer And Video Games:
PC gaming on-the-go set to get a whole lot better. Nvidia's mightily impressive 3D Vision ecosystem is swaggering into PC Notebooks, ensuring PC games will look a lot crisper on your portable.Click here to read the full articleRelated StoriesModern Warfare 2 video shows new gameplay modes?Banned Xbox modders NOT one-million (Read More)
Shacknews Games:
Croteam's modern day revamp of Serious Sam: The First Encounter will hit PC on Tuesday, November 24, producer Digital Devolver confirmed today via Twitter.The digital download will be available through Steam and Got Games, with Steam currently offering pre-orders 10% off of the game's $19.99 asking price.A downloadable Xbox (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game. Developers can then claim those game communities as official fan sites.To date, 40 developers have launched official communities a (Read More)