By Scott Steinberg on Aug 24, 2010 in Cloud Computing, Digital Distribution, Disruptive Tech
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The biggest names in the gaming industry explore where digital distribution, cloud computing and streaming multimedia have the potential to take video games, movies, music, TV and more. Plus, a look at how streaming multimedia and downloadable content (DLC) promise to change home entertainment forever. Features commentary from a litany of video game business experts and insiders including Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Electronic Arts/Digital Chocolate founder Trip...
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By Scott Steinberg on Aug 10, 2010 in Business, Digital Distribution, Disruptive Tech
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Despite the video game industry’s crushing sales losses last year, it’s a fundamental truth that analysts, experts and insiders alike are quickly having to wake up and accept: Nothing has changed in 2010. Color us shamed and embarrassed; despite the continued success of social, mobile and online games, and rise of alternative platforms such as Facebook and the iPhone/iPad, monolithic publishers like Electronic Arts, UbiSoft and Activision still...
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By Scott Steinberg on Aug 10, 2010 in Business, Digital Distribution, Disruptive Tech
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Despite assurances to the contrary, as revenues continue to flatline and studios disintegrate, game industry leaders are grudgingly being forced to accept reality: Nothing has changed. Besieged on all fronts by shifting player habits, growing economic issues and the rise of digital downloads, games for social networks and free-to-play online outings, insiders are becoming increasingly desperate to reinvent themselves. Forget what you see in the headlines. In the...
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By Scott Steinberg on Aug 4, 2010 in Culture, Politics, Video Games
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With a Supreme Court case that threatens government regulation of violent video games coalescing shortly and the token accompanying witch hunt that’s sure to precede its arrival, we thought it might be a good time to reiterate: Even the most seemingly ‘irredeemable’ and ‘horrifying’ games (e.g. Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series) may simply appear that way because they’re viewed out of context.
Mind you, we’d be the...
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Michael Pachter is many things to many people: Gaming analyst, constant source of industry chatter and omnipresent font of wisdom for today’s media. (Not to mention erstwhile Game Theory contributor, but that’s another story…) However, as you may be saddened to learn, not everything about this outspoken business critic is as it seems. In an exclusive Game Theory original, we go behind the scenes of video show Pach Attack to expose the truth behind...
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By Scott Steinberg on Aug 3, 2010 in Business, Digital Distribution, Disruptive Tech
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Battered and bruised by plummeting sales, the video game industry staggers on, steadily losing ground at retail. When will we finally wake up and realize that things have irrevocably changed? From social network games to motion controls, iPhone apps, 3D games and cloud computing, the modern gaming business isn’t just virtually unrecognizable. It’s also being completely reinvented courtesy of new concepts like digital distribution and free-to-play titles with...
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By Scott Steinberg on Jul 28, 2010 in Apple, Business, Cloud Computing
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The irony of discussing and debating issues of relevance to gaming these days is that there is no one single “video game industry” to speak of; you’re actually talking about dozens of individual and equally diverse businesses. Likewise, endlessly opining about when retail software revenues will cease slumping is all but irrelevant, as outside of specific tentpole AAA releases, the field’s mot promising growth areas (social, mobile, free-to-play, etc.)...
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By Scott Steinberg on Jul 18, 2010 in Apple, iPhone and iPad, Kinect
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Motion controls such as Sony’s PlayStation Move and Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 are obviously one of the hottest (and potentially most overhyped) new video game trends in 2010, as many hope that they’ll expand the gaming audience even further than the Wii has already done. We recently connected with our friends at Fox Business for a live broadcast – from Nintendo’s 3DS press conference, ironically enough… hey, we don’t...
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By Scott Steinberg on Jul 18, 2010 in Culture, PC, Video Games
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Professional video game players (pro gamers) such as Fatal1ty and members of the PMS Clan can make a comfortable living doing what they love most: Playing video games. But professional gaming hasn’t been all wine and roses, with many leagues folding in recent years and the hobby struggling to be recognized both as a viable living and respectable sport. Not that we disapprove: It’s just that, given the current economic and cultural climate, North America...
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By Scott Steinberg on Jul 18, 2010 in Business, Digital Distribution, Game Design
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Determined to break into video game development or publishing and follow in the footsteps of giants like Activision, Electronic Arts and UbiSoft (OK, Zynga or Playdom) with your own take on Modern Warfare 2, Grand Theft Auto IV or Madden NFL? Then check out this step-by-step video walkthrough and tutorial, which takes you behind the scenes of the life of a game developer, and explains how hit games are signed, made and brought to retail. Warren Spector, Sid Meier...
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Scott Steinberg is the CEO of video game consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and founder of GameExec magazine and Game Industry TV. Hailed as a top technology and video game expert by dozens of publications from USA Today to Forbes and NPR, he’s covered the field for 400+ outlets from Playboy to Rolling Stone. A frequent on-air analyst for networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, he’s also the author of Video Game Marketing and PR.