It’s crazy to think that only 10 years ago, most people still used dial-up 56k connections and it would take them 5 to 10 minutes to download a song. Now days, we can download game demos in that time! As internet speeds continue to increase and the world around us becomes more based on computers and the internet itself, game publishers are beginning to look at digital distribution as the next step. Record companies have already begin doing this years ago with music, and CDs now are becoming a thing of the past. Is this a good thing or is it a bad thing?
With the end of the Big Spring Sale and the lead-up to Easter, Amazon has axed the price of this stunning, high-performance Alienware display.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have became the first employees at a major North American video-game company to ratify a union contract, a move that may accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for widespread instability among its work force.
The contract, ratified Tuesday, covers around 150 people across marketing and other departments at the division’s offices in Southern California. Workers will receive minimum yearly pay increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 as well as a number of other benefits, Catalina Brennan-Gatica, a representative for the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview.
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This should bypass pay wall
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Worst thing that will happen is it will have a lower stock price and ceos won't get extra millions they don't really need. Other than that the company will continue on and ppl will be treated better.
This is AWESOME - Sega seems to be progressive in their new ways - big props to Sega !!!
I kind of agree with this article. Digital distribution is almost universally bad for consumers as it stands.
Unless there is some way for it to get competition and that there is some way for gamers to be able to play their content long after the console is no longer sold, it is essentially a downgrade.
There is one advantage though, I don't have to store physical media and the convenience is unmatched.
The major ISPs would have to be forced at gun point to incease bandwidth before DD will be mainstream.
i have no problem with digital brought games from steam plus music from itunes
Downloads from iTunes are a little different though, especially now days that their files are DRM-free. You can do pretty much whatever you want with them.