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The 10 Most Important Trends of Digital Games Distribution

TweetThe adoption of digitally distributed video games has been both quicker and slower than expected, depending on which platforms you look at. If you look at PC games, by now it’s hard to imagine that there are people still buying physical boxes. A few years ago, Steam was considered a niche player for hardcore digital gamers. [...]

by on July 20, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sebastian on July 20, 2011

http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/07/20/the-10-most-important-trends-of-digital-games-distribution/

Who has the most download games? The top 20 largest digital distribution stores

TweetAs a byproduct of our recent market study of current digital distribution platforms for games we also analysed the number of games each shop has on offer. We didn’t include the full resultes it in the origial study since it was stuffed with numbers already anyway. Still, it seems an interesting piece of information all [...]

by on June 7, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sebastian on June 7, 2011

http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/07/who-has-the-most-download-games-the-top-20-largest-digital-distribution-stores/

Electronic Arts revamps its download store

Tweet EA announced a major upgrade of it’s digital distribution platform formerly known as EA Store. Apart from the new name “Origin“ EA promises that users will be able  to set up profiles, build friends lists, browse more than 150 of EA’s games, and pre-order new releases. There is also some exclusive content for somw of [...]

by on June 6, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sebastian on June 6, 2011

http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/06/electronic-arts-revamps-its-download-store/

Market Shares of Digital Distribution Platforms in 2010-2011

TweetBasically, this is an update to a similar study we conducted last year. Actually, I hoped that during the last year more usage information with regard to the digital distribution market would become available. But so far  none of the bigger download platforms has released any relevant information. Not even the established market research agencies [...]

by on June 1, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sebastian on June 1, 2011

http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/01/market-shares-of-digital-distribution-platforms-in-2010-2011/

Help to improve your favorite deal and price comparison site for digital video games

Tweet Since our last survey we have done a lot of stuff to integrate your feedback. We also changed a great deal of things on Deals4Downloads.com. Among others we  added a complete price comparison for video games which sort of changed our value proposition for our users too. It’s always a difficult to keep our [...]

by on April 20, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sebastian on April 20, 2011

http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/04/20/help-to-improve-your-favorite-deal-and-price-comparison-site-for-digital-video-games/

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