Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has unveiled a download platform for PC games which he claims could 'replicate the functionality of iTunes' and drive massive growth for the sector.
The subsidiary Virgin Games and Game Domain International (GDI) this morning announced a new 3D 'virtual world' platform called A World of My Own (AWOMO).
Koch Media is the first traditional PC games publisher to sign up for the technology.
The platform claims to offer key advantages over existing technologies - including rapid download speeds enabling play within minutes instead of hours, far greater security, and improved ease of use for the customer.
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
If they can make a stable enough service, i'd be on board with that...
Steam?