Tag Archives: digital retail

"After careful examination of the evolving European marketplace in recent years, Nintendo has decided to end the availability of download codes for its own-published software via retailers, effective 1st July 2020."

Loot Play aims at helping games get discovered and “helping [indie] developers find new audiences”

PUBG and Rocket League took the top spots of Green Man Gaming’s best-selling titles, while nostalgia drove pre-orders

InXile Entertainment founder Brian Fargo has created a new PC games storefront utilising blockchain technology.  Robot Cache’s aim is to reduce the fees paid by publishers and developers by 80 per cent according to the official announcement. The newly created firm claims to have the “the lowest transaction fees of any …

In Part Three of our publishing roundtable, we discuss the rise of digital. With digital becoming more important to publishers’ balance sheets, we ask publishers about competition in the marketplace and whether any improvements have been made to discoverability. In case you missed it, in Part One of our publishing roundtable, we …

Puzzle platformer Little Nightmares will be released both physically and digitally on April 28th on PS4, Xbox One and PC, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. There will be two editions of the game to buy at launch – the standard version plus a limited Six Edition, which is exclusive to …

In 2016, revenue generated by the boxed games market dipped by 16.4 per cent. That’s according to data from the retail trade body ERA, which – citing GfK figures – says that 776m was generated by software sales during 2016, down from 2015’s 927.7m. This is due to some titles …

To celebrate its sixthbirthday, digital retailer Green Man Gaming has launched a brand new website. Green Man Gaming now has a new online store and e-commerce platform, which it claims provides a higher amount of localisation for different markets around the world.Furthermore, the firm is offering special deals for 24 …

Developer Yacht Club Games has revealed just how well its indie darling has performed. The studio has revealed that between its launch in June 2014 and December 2015 the platformer sold more than 1m units in total – physical and digital. But in February, the Kickstarter game’s digital sales figures …

The Windows version of Deadpool has returned to Steam, marking the first time a digital offering has been available since the removal of the title from digital channels on both PC and consoles in January 2014. The game and its lone DLC release are back on sale via Valve’s digital …