Visitors attend a show by Electronic Arts wow classic gold (EA) at the Gamescom 2009 fair in Cologne August 22, 2009. REUTERS/Ina FAssbender/Filesdays when people were just putting a CD in a console are over. The industry is changing and I think the CD can be a starting point, John Schappert told Reuters in an interview ahead of Gamescom, Europe biggest video games trade fair.can say that we will see very strong growth in digital gaming in the foreseeable future.EA earlier this month reported higher than expected results and confirmed its 2011 outlook, as cost cuts kicked in while sales of its flagship soccer game rose, but also booked a 52 percent rise in first quarter sales in its digital business.The company aims for fiscal 2011 revenues of $750 million in this segment which includes downloadable game content for smartphones, consoles and social network sites which would be a 50 percent rise compared with the last fiscal year.This may only account for a small part of EA total sales outlook for non GAAP revenue of $3.65 billion to $3.9 billion, but given growth rates in digital gaming and a slumping industry overall, EA is very bullish about this specific segment.According to research firm iSuppli, unit shipments of game capable mobile phones are expected to rise by a third to 1.53 billion by 2013, while units for video game consoles are seen falling by 7.5 percent to 48.2 million.
The tale of StarCraftStarCraft is one of the toughest games in the world to play whilst having one of the easiest premises to go along with it. From its vanilla version in the late 90's to the technological spectacle of Legacy of the Void today, the game has always begun the same. You play one of the three races the human Terran, advanced psionic life form Protoss, or arthropod alien Zerg start with a certain number of workers, mine minerals to gather money, and then use said money and other resources to create a military to expand your empire and crush your opponent's..
Play Time: Each attempt shouldn take longer than five minutes. If normal is too difficult, then there are easy modes and a two player game available. But overall, Pwong 2 is a good way to spend some free time, and even if you hate the concept, you can at least enjoy the music..
A spectator mode will allow players to drop in and check out performances by other "Lifelike" players via the PlayStation Network. This is a cool idea, but I hope Q Games takes an active role in screening and featuring the most skilled performances. It'd be tedious to watch 20 or 30 performances by unskilled, tone deaf fools like me before you stumbled across the stylings of Baiyon..
