Ready for Digital Distribution?

Digital distribution to cause new industry boom?

It may be that digital distributon rather than boxed games become increasingly more important. However, is the games industry ready for the challenge? Digital distribution is also likely to impact on the way games are produced – think of all the patches released. Rather than thinking of a typical development cycle of a game as a finished product when it is published, online distribution requires constant support . In the same way online distribution will also impact on the relationship between publishers and third – party developers…