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Digital Distribution EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Today's Steam deals: Cheap Arkham Asylum, DA:O, and more 26 Steam has kicked off its holiday sale today with a slew of great deals. Every day, from now until Monday, a new set of discounted games will become active. It's not like your eyes aren't already ... Atari.com relaunched, now offers free arcade classics 6 I'm trying to think back to the last time I went to visit Atari.com. Heck, I don't know if I have ever done so before. Something -- my guess would be the continued interest in digital distributio... Beam LittleBigPlanet PSP to your pocket starting today 8 As a PlayStation Portable owner, the most exciting news surrounding the PSPgo was the plan to have most games release on PlayStation Network day-and-date with their UMD brethren. Stores? Hah, it'... Games on Demand: Saints Row 2, LEGO Indiana Jones 14 Drat your headline character limit, Elephant! I was one letter away from squeezing "next week" in there. You haven't seen the last of me; I know where you live. On Tuesday, November 24, Games on ... Wait, what? Only 23% of Demigod buyers tried multiplayer? 23 Seriously? I mean, that game has little more than a skirmish mode as its solo component! For chrissakes, it's a Defense of the Ancients clone! Games like that don't roll well solo. But hey, peopl... Serious Sam HD has seriously gone gold 18 Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter has gone gold, and is now up for pre-purchase over on Steam. Doing so will allow you to keep a few extra dollars in hand as you wait for the game to unlock on ... Get Demigod for half price and other Impulse deals 4 Starting today and carrying through until Sunday (huh, so that's why they call it a weekend Impulse Buy), the half RPG, half RTS lovechild of Gas Powered Games and Stardock, Demigod, will be mark... Pinball Heroes now up on the PSP Store 6 I originally scoffed at the idea of an Uncharted-centric pinball game for PlayStation Portable, so now I feel like a proper jerk. There are four separate tables under the Pinball Heroes moniker t... Breaking: Monopoly now on Xbox 360 Games on Demand 20 You thought we reached a new low with that Spongebob Squarepants Rock Band DLC story? Hah. Hahaha. Hahahahaha. Oh, no. We haven't even begun to go low. Monopoly has been added to the Xbox 360 Gam... Iwata: Digital distribution will be prevalent in 20 years 28 During his comments following the release of Nintendo's recent financials, company President Satoru Iwata laid out the connectivity rates for the Wii and DS in Japan. According to Nintendo's numb... GameStop is safe from digital until 2017, says analyst 28 You'd think the retail games world was ending with company directors dumping over 2 million shares of stock. No worries...yet, says one analyst. GameStop is good until about 2017.Ben Schachter of... Randy Pitchford talks Valve, Steam, and exploitation 45 Besides being super pumped for Borderlands at all times -- which, who can blame him? -- Gearbox president and founder Randy Pitchford has a few negative things to say about Steam, the digital dow... Unbound Saga gets a little bit of a price cut 11 Desperate times call for desperate measures.As you may or may not have heard, Vogster Entertainment is not in the best of shape these days. As such, one of the studio's games, a download-only Pla... Will digital distribution 'save' PC gaming? Some think so 22 More and more these days, anytime you see the word "digital distribution" in a sentence, chances are high you can also find "Stardock" nearby. Not that there's anything wrong ... This month in XBL: Games on Demand, Avatar clothes, more 14 What's happening this month in the fascinating world of Xbox LIVE? A bunch of little things that perfectly add up to be enough material for a single press release. God bless the art of filler con... Labor Day PSA: KOTOR available as a digital download 16 One of the few good Star Wars titles is now available for digital download. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic -- an RPG developed by LucasArts and BioWare -- can be purchased on Direct 2 Driv... Here's the starting line-up for Xbox 360's Games on Demand 33 If there is one thing that's got me excited for Games on Demand more than anything else, it's that I'm now going to have to buy a larger hard drive. Finally! This new service will be open to ever... Here's why the 360's 'Games on Demand' focuses on old games 26 Speaking with Fast Company, Microsoft's Shane Kim reiterated that day-and-date releases for Xbox 360's Games on Demand service are out of the question, at least for the time being. For publishers... New EGM to invade all of your devices at once 7 Electronic Gaming Monthly as you knew it may have folded, your subscription turned into Maxim, pictures of Street Fighter’s Ryu now a hot-young-actress-of-the-moment in lingerie. But the ma... GameStop says no market for digital distribution until 2014 37 Most of the people reading this right now download games on a pretty regular basis I would assume. I would also assume that the market for downloadable games is pretty good since even Nintendo ha... E3 09: Sony to provide digital copies of your current UMDs 24 Already own a PSP with a decent amount of titles in your collection? Looking to upgrade to a PSP Go, but aren't sure what will become of your UMDs? It's sounding like Sony is going to have a solu... E3 09: No new releases for the Xbox 360's 'Games on Demand' 15 The concept of being able to download full retail games on a home console is not new in the least bit, but it's always a nice gesture to see.The recently-announced "Games on Demand" ser...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! Dive in! meetup+play for a chance to win a PC Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Assassin's Creed 2 review Crossfire Remote Pistol review Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles review Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review more reviews Driver Avatar GT Racing Motor Academy Bad Company 2 beta dishes out meaningful experiences Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks more previews - The Dtoid Army is 51000 strong - Showing Cblogs with 3+ faps   show all Call for entries: do the wrong thing New to Dtoid? 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