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Telltale Signs That Videogames Will Be Downloaded, Not Sold at Retail

in Commerce on February 17, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

If selling $60 plastic-wrapped videogames in the store is not the future of the industry, what is? Telltale Games thinks it has the winning formula, and is announcing today a number of exclusive publishing agreements with Warner Bros., the AMC TV network and Universal Pictures.

Steam Punk'd: Google to (Not) Buy Valve

in News on September 17, 2008 at 9:33 am PT

“Well-placed sources” tell The Inquirer that Google is in talks to acquire video game developer Valve Software. Which seems a bit unorthodox, even for a company as capricious as Google. What would Google want with a game company? Surely it doesn’t plan to plaster the Half-Life universe with mesothelioma AdWords.

Steam Punk’d: Google to (Not) Buy Valve

in News on September 17, 2008 at 9:33 am PT

“Well-placed sources” tell The Inquirer that Google is in talks to acquire video game developer Valve Software. Which seems a bit unorthodox, even for a company as capricious as Google. What would Google want with a game company? Surely it doesn’t plan to plaster the Half-Life universe with mesothelioma AdWords.