If you watched the mini documentary in yesterday’s post: The Future of Digital Distribution, you heard Scott Steinberg and industry developers talk about the importance of digital distribution when it comes to updating games on the fly. The perfect demonstration of this is the update Uber Entertainment announced today for their XBLA hit: Monday Night Combat.
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This week has finally allotted me the necessary time to dive head-first into Dragon Age: Origins. Until now, it has somehow always fallen by the wayside and I’ve not had the time to get into the BioWare epic. I started playing it a couple nights ago and today BioWare announced the newest DLC pack to be released for the the game. How fortuitous.
Read More: Upcoming DLC: Dragon Age: Origins Goes On A Witch Hunt
Hump Day just got a little better with the release of two games that are full of epic epicness. Scott Pilgrim vs The World was released on the PSN earlier this month and has finally kicked, punched and headbutted its way onto XBLA. Joining Scott Pilgrim on this fisticuff-filled Wednesday is EA and Klei Entertainment’s arcade bralwer: Shank.
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Published by ByteMark Games and developed by Ottawa based studio PlayBrains, Jaws™ is a thrilling game based on the original motion picture from Universal Studios. Available Now at the 
In Jaws™, the player must steer swimmers safely out of the path of the oncoming shark when he attacks. While there is a shark threat indicator at the bottom of the screen, it is way more fun with the sound on. The Jaws™ anthem will dramatically warn of the next shark attack.
Jaws iPhone Trailer from Bytemark Games on Vimeo.
Read More: Jaws(TM) Game now available in the AppStore
SEATTLE, WA (August 24, 2010) - Game Industry TVTM today announced the launch of new mini documentary “The Future of Digital Distribution,” which reveals how streaming media, downloadable content (DLC) and cloud computing are radically impacting the entertainment industry. Available now at www.gametheoryonline.com, the video takes a deeper look at how a new wave of digital amusements including online music, movies, TV shows and video games are completely reinventing the way in which we interact with media.
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According to the update made on the official game’s website today, Bioware has announced that the upcoming Shadow Broker DLC expansion will be available for Xbox 360 and PC gamers on September 7th for 800 points respectively.
Read More: Mass Effect 2 Shadow Broker DLC Gets Release Date
Big news today for Crackdown 2 fans as Microsoft Games Studios and Ruffian Games announced the upcoming release of “Toy Box”, the first Add-on DLC for the action-packed, open world Xbox 360 exclusive. Toy Box will offer fans of the series free downloadable content and an additional premium content pack for 560 Microsoft Points to rid Pacific City of crime and injustice.
Online gaming now more popular than downloading music and filmsIn recent years the video game industry has seen phenomenal growth and is now the highest grossing entertainment industry in the world. Video games are now becoming more popular and clearly more profitably than both the music and film industries. Canada in particular has seen the benefits from this trend, as the Canadian video game industry – despite last year’s recession, is now the world’s third largest center for video game development talent.
Read More: Online Gaming Surpasses Music and Films As Most Popular Downloadable Content
About a year ago, Amazon.com broke new ground in the digital download gaming industry by listing, for direct sale, exclusive titles from the Xbox Live Marketplace. We thought this was a great idea and took on an affiliate program with Amazon to make those titles available through our site as well. In that time, less than 10% of XBLA purchases made through our affiliate store were for online game codes versus points cards or live membership cards (our top selling item by far).
Read More: Amazon.com Dropping Direct Sales of XBLA Titles.
The new browser-based free fantasy RPG ‘Kalos War’ has ended its closed beta testing and finally started its official commercial server on August 19th. If you’re interested in checking out the new game you can visit the official homepage at here, and enjoy the game without limitations! That means cash items as well, these can be acquired just by making small efforts to the game: creating a character will give you 10 Taler (in-game currency) and another 3 Taler can be gained by simply logging in once a day.
This event will run until the end of September. For other important updates there is also the official forum where players can learn about fixes, events, share strategies, tips and tricks.
Read More: Fantasty RPG ‘Kalos War’ Looking To Attract Attention With Month-Long Unlimited Access
