Tag Archives: digital distribution

Valve’s PC sales portal Steam has reached another significant milestone. The company says that the service now has 100m active accounts, up from the 75m figure it boasted in January. Furthermore, there are now over 3,700 games available on Steam, with over 1,300 being added in the last nine months …

'Giving customers more options means giving developers more places for their product to make a connection,' says Alden Kroll

New recommendation system and curator list designed to improve how users find titles

Warner Bros has filed a series of trademarks for what reportedly could be a digital retail and streaming platform. The Escapist reports that the filings for ‘WB Play’ concern a number of activities such as ‘online retail store services’, ‘audio and video broadcasting services’ and ‘downloadable virtual goods’. Of the …

Digital games distribution service GOG.com has announced its expansion into movies, as it hopes to entice Hollywood studios to join in its stance against DRM. The company’s new initiative launched earlier today with 20 documentaries revolving around the subject of gaming, including Indie Game: The Movie, Gamer Age and The …

Players flock to store as summer sale nears end

End could be nigh for community-voting scheme and store curation

Sales though Valve's eponymous digital store will be charged at 20 per cent VAT rate next year

Steam developers can now set sales periods and discounts on their own, Valve has revealed. The news broke originally when an anonymous developer posted an image of the new tools on Reddit, with Valve subsequently confirming the leak. "As with the addition of a ‘Recently Updated’ section to Steam, this …

Phantasy Star Online 2 and Puyopuyo!! Quest help Sega reach profits of £265.8m