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Electronic Art’s Sees Digital Revenue Grow by 30% to 570 Million US$

TweetIn a speech at the¬¨‚ĆBank of America Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in Newport Beach yesterday John Riccitiello, CEO of publisher EA, talked about many aspects of both the gaming industry and EA’s role and future in it. You can read the full transcript here. Naturally, what I found most interesting were his comments on [...]

Square Enix: Digital Distribution is the Future

TweetSquare Enix Chief Executive Yoichi Wada talks to Forbes about his vision for both company and the games industry. Wada says digital distribution of games and online social games are the future, and Square Enix must focus on them. “Two things are clear: The distribution channels will change and the revenue model will change,” Wada [...]

E3 Midterm Roundup on Digital Distribution

TweetE3 has opend it’s gates and we’re happy to embrace the flood of news. However, between all the new games, ex-Natals and announcements it’s easy to miss some of the smaller but neverthess interesting news bits – especially concerning the digital distribution. To right this unjustice here a few¬¨‚Ć items that we picked up along [...]

Behind the Scenes: Sega restructures to be not at the back of the digital queue.

TweetWhile all the other big publisher are buying, investing or at least bragging themselves into the future, Sega so far has been suspiciously quiet about their plans to approach the digital business. Until today: The last issue of MCV included an interesting interview with Alan Pritchard, VP Sales and Marketing of SEGA US, where he [...]

Behind the Scenes: TimeGate CEO talks about digital distribution of Section 8 on the PS3

TweetIn an interview with Gamasutra TimeGate Studios president and CEO Adel Chaveleh talked about launching premium PSN digital game Section 8, which was a retail release on PC and Xbox 360. Accoring to Adel Chaveleh the primary reason to move to digital distribution on the PS3 was to maintain control of the IP and thereby [...]