The watchdog alleges that US - based Valve Corporation is contravening the county's consumer laws by not offering refunds on
games sold via its digital distribution platform.
There's nothing wrong with a company like Valve enforcing quality control standards on
games sold via their platform.
Not exact matches
This time, instead of moving into their home with their new baby, Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) have just
sold their house in order to move into a new one with their soon to be born second kid, and instead of being tormented by a fraternity led by Zac Efron's Teddy Sanders, they are up against a new sorority led by Chloe Grace Moretz's Shelby, who is helped out by Teddy because obviously they had to figure out a way to get him back in the
game (
via a quarter life crisis that's actually pretty amusingly played by Efron).
Many of the
games have two - player options, and these are accessible to Mini NES owners
via a second controller (
sold seperately).
Today, Nintendo announced
via Twitter that the
game had
sold over 1 million units in that region alone, which is a pretty impressive number.
If items won
via gambling couldn't be
sold at in -
game shops, then the real - money economy isn't affected.
A particular breakout success since the «Metal Gear Solid» instalment that was released on PlayStation in 1998, the series» popularity continued to soar up to the release of the fifth main episode «Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain» on PlayStation IV in 2015, the top -
selling METAL GEAR
game of all time. -
via Press Release
Then again, the NPD gave us a pretty big hint yesterday that the
game sold extremely well
via digital stores after dropping roughly 50 % at retail compared to the first installment.
The big one is that anything can be
sold for a full refund, no trap placement corners you into a loss of money if you mess up, the
game won't punish you for a mistake any more than you should be
via the loss of life.
This expansion will be
sold via the
game's season pass.
It quickly shot up the CrackBerry App Store's Best Sellers list and is currently the # 1 Best
Selling Game in the catalog (it's not available
via App World yet), maintaining a 5 - star rating and gaining a lot of positive reviews.
Australia's Consumer Rights Commission is suing Valve over the following points: Consumers were not entitled to a refund for any
games sold by Valve
via Steam in any circumstances.
People will come up with — and
sell via the in -
game marketplace — some astoundingly detailed penis designs.
As for developers and publishers Steam have ensured that there shouldn't be any backlash from them regarding people making money using their
games as a platform by making it so the companies have to enable to the option to
sell mods
via the Workshop.
Consumers were not entitled to a refund for any
games sold by Valve
via Steam in any circumstances.
Customizing cars and
selling & buying
via the Auction house is among the most addicting things I've ever done in a video
game before.
If that doesn't rope us in, D3's hoping their
game's other major
selling points will, like the ability to have online multiplayer
via ad - hoc and character customization with various outfits and weapons that can be bought within the
game.
Killing Floor 2 is the sequel to PC
game Killing Floor which released at retail in 2009; although its origins dated back to 2005 when it was initially released as an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod which went on to
sell over 3 million copies on PC
via Steam from 2009.
Previously only available to PC
gamers via Steam, a number of online retailers are now
selling Steam keys.
A lot of now established developers got their start making
games out of a garage and sometimes even
sold via mail order.
Murayama: The reason is that actually since the arcade version original, we
sold the
game's music tracks
via the Internet, to maybe your iPod or whatever, so that is the reason why we don't have that as an option.
Although indie Flash
games can be
sold as standalone desktop or mobile apps, or launched with in -
game purchases, the traditional way of making money from them is
via sponsorship.
According to information posted on the company's website, the studio is working on a variety of
games including first - party PSP and PS3 titles for Sony, both to be
sold via the PlayStation Store, plus an original multi-platform
game for PSP, PS3 and 360 which it is planned will be available on both XBLA and the PlayStation Store.
An interesting phenomenon recently has been book publishers trying to pitch /
sell books
via the
game press - and here's the latest one, for hacker novel «Daemon».
NetherRealm Studios has done it again... The NPD Group (
via GamesIndustry.biz) has revealed that Injustice 2 was the best -
selling game in May.
Iwata says that Nintendo is ready to
sell full
games via download on the new Network.
SMG Studios, the indie developer behind Death Squared, even confirmed
via Twitter that within the first three days of the
game's Switch launch, it
sold more copies than all other platforms combined.
Persona 4 Golden, Japan's BEST
SELLING PS Vita
game of ALL darn - tootin'time, finally has a North American release date: November 20, 2012, in stores and
via PlayStation Store.
I can
sell my
game on the PC
via the Humble Store, Steam, Desura, or the Amazon Indie Games Store, and so far it looks like the PS4 is creating a great platform for reaching the console audience.
As video
games move increasingly towards a digital method, this will mean that any company
selling digital software in Australia, whether that's the bigger storefronts like Xbox and Playstation, small outfits like Itch.io or even an independant publisher
selling games via direct download on their website, will now have to play ball with Australian consumer rights laws.
This latest entry in the renowned Resident Evil ® series, which has
sold over 71 million units worldwide to date, is available on PlayStation ® 4 computer entertainment system (the full
game is also available to play
via the included optional PlayStation ® VR Mode), Xbox One and Windows PC (Steam and Windows Store).
High speed broadband along with lower pricing and additional extras have allowed digital editions to reach an average 15 to 20 % attach rate and this percentage is set to continue growing in 2016 with many estimating that half of all console and portable
games will be
sold via digital download by the end of the generation.
PS Vita
games are currently
sold via PSN as well as at retail on proprietary memory cards, and while physical sales still dominate, Sony says digital
game sales on the handled are on the rise.
All
games are
sold / downloaded
via the FUZE OS
Games Store that is pre-installed on the console.
So to sum up GameStop will be in a position to
sell games via its retail business.
Rather then addressing the problem that
selling games based on gimmicks held, they amp'd those same gimmicks up to 11 and made the world's most unwieldy controller in the process by strapping an SNES controller to a gigantic 3DS, and then followed that up by
selling DLC
via action figures.
Announced
via the Bungie blog, these in -
game purchases will centre around a trader that will only
sell items for «Silver», a virtual currency that players will be able to purchase through their platform's digital store, such as Xbox Marketplace or PlayStation Store.
For example on the DRM topic Diablo 3 got an immense amount of heat for it's always online DRM
via Battle.net but that didn't stop it from going on to be one of the top 10 video
games ever
sold for many years (currently at # 12).
While subsequent
games never really did expand on that original vision in a meaningful way (pledging your allegiance to a top team
via the young driver program was probably the most significant addition), it remained a major
selling point.
A particular breakout success since the «Metal Gear Solid» instalment that was released on PlayStation in 1998, the series» popularity continued to soar up to the release of the fifth main episode «Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain» on PlayStation IV in 2015, the top -
selling METAL GEAR
game of all time. -
via Press Release
This is also how much more Halo 5
sold in week 1 compared to last year's «Halo: Master Chief Collection» - up until now the only other Halo
game available
via retail for Xbox One owners.
AO - rated
games are banned from the major consoles as well as Steam; they can basically only be
sold via a select few download sources.
League of Legends
sells items for Blue Essence (BE)(previously «Influence Points»), which players earn by playing the
game — and Riot Points (RP), which players purchase
via the Riot Store.
This expansion will be
sold via the
game's season pass.
It says they don't want people listing
games on steam and then
selling all the keys
via 3rd parties so that valve gets zero dollars.
As good as these
games were, they
sold relatively poorly (being Japanese Xbox exclusives didn't help) so certainly deserve another lease of life
via Backwards Compatibility.
There were developers who would
sell a «bulk» amount of keys at a set price (lower than steam) to one person and then that one person would resell them privately
via paypal - so the developer gets a sale they wouldn't have got, the middle man gets a small profit, and the user gets the
game for a cheaper price
According to a bit of research from the Video
Game Price Charts blog — I've used them in the past when
selling my unwanted
games via eBay — the...
Doucette explains their
game distribution: «We
sell them
via Xbox LIVE, which is Microsoft's digital distribution service on the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7.
A look at total sales shows that Capcom shipped 3,550,000 copies of its
games at retail in the first half of the fiscal year (from April to September), while 4,850,000 copies were
sold via digital download, for a total of 8,400,000 copies.