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22 Apr

Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman most anticipated 2008 games

Source: IGN
What is for you the most anticipated game this year? GTA IV? For me not really. I can tell you from now that the two new Lego games are top of my list. As Yahoo! Games reports, Lego Indiana Jones is going to hit shelves this May and Lego Batman will arrive later this [...]

28 Jan

Video games grow 28.4% in the US in 2007

Video games are the entertainment stars of 2007 as their software side of the business sold $9.5 billion in the US, an amount similar to what was spent for movies and music. The bad news -at least for me- is that PC games account for only 9.5% of sales. Whether piracy or less interest in [...]

21 Jan

EA tries the free game model with its new Battlefield game

Further to our post yesterday on PC game piracy and the tendency towards online downloads and online gaming, EA’s confirmation of the changes to come arrives in the form of its new Battlefield iteration. Unlike the traditional model, the idea here is to give gamers the software online for free but get revenue as they pay for cool equipment and clothes [...]

20 Jan

The PC gaming platform still plagued by piracy

Since the inception of computer gaming, piracy has been a great headache. Access to the web and the downloading of pirate copies has exacerbated the problem beyond all proportions. As most titles are released in autumn for the Christmas party buildup, January is a good time to look back and judge the sales results. There [...]

05 Dec

Where mobile telephone games come useful

The autumn period of each year is when most console and PC games are released, at least the ones that aim really high in terms of success with gamers. Behind all the advertisement and review frenzy another parallel industry, that of casual games, is quietly building strength. Those of us not having the time to [...]

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