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Gamasutra Interview: Direct2Drive's Berger On The Evolving Digital Distro Space

IGN's downloadable game service Direct2Drive just turned five years old, and has seen exponential growth as full-length game downloads proliferate on PC. The company's sales have doubled over the past few years, and this year's seen a 45 percent unit sales boost over the previous one.

Most importantly, the service's growth doesn't just tell a story about Direct2Drive, but is just one more example of a rapidly-evolving digital space for video games. These days, it's hard to even remember when publishers were wary of digital launches and consumers had few, if any options for current, full-length game launches, but it was not very long ago at all.

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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The hacking adventure "Cyber Manhunt 2: New World" is coming to PC via Steam EA on May 10th, 2024

"The Singapore-based indie games publisher Spiral Up Games and Qingdao/Shandong-based (China) indie games developer Aluba Studio, today announced with great happiness and excitement that their hacking adventure "Cyber Manhunt 2: New World" is coming to PC via Steam EA on May 10th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.

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The open-world survival/crafting game "Lost Legions" has just been announced for PC

"The Berlin-based (Germany) indie games developer Tarock Interactive today announced with great delight and happiness that their open-world survival/crafting game "Lost Legions", is now currenly in development for PC." - Jonas Ek, TGG.