Computer owners are no longer going to the stores to buy their favorite computer games – but they still buy them, despite all the nonsense said by the console fanboys. It’s just that, because time has changed, we all tend to purchase the products online from digital download distribution sites like Steam.

Even though classic retail stores are losing ground really fast to digital download portals, the classic brick and mortar buildings still get a pretty decent piece of the pie when it comes to computer games. Below you can check out the list of the bestselling PC games in 2009, according to NPD data:

Electronic Arts just released a press statement sharing with the world that they had a net revenue of $1.15 Billion in the past quarter, meaning that they were the number one publisher across all platforms. After hearing that, one would believe that it’s a Heaven to be working at EA, right? Well… it probably is [...]

Yesterday, a very interesting rumor hit the gaming world: according to various sources, Microsoft was planning to purchase Electronic Arts, the second biggest game publisher in the world (or THE biggest according to others). However, today Microsoft debunked the rumor.

There might be a little earthquake ready to hit the gaming world after the news that Disney is close to sealing a deal that will buy them the entire Marvel Entertainment for the “low” sum of $4 billion! The deal is, according to mmorpg.com close to be signed, with both companies’ boards having agreed upon [...]

Muse Games, a growing portal for browser-based 3D gaming, has recently announced the launch of “Immunity,” an indie game development challenge based on the Unity 3D engine. Contestants can submit a simple game prototype to be voted on by the development community and general public, and ultimately compete for a $10,000 contract to finish the [...]

During the successful Blizzcon 2009, those who were part of the event were the first ones to see the new Battle.net: with a new look, improved features and increased usability, it was a real blast to see Blizzard’s idea of the “future” and I am sure all gamers will agree with their views.
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Today I saw a short news story on Kotaku in which the editor shared with the world the words of Activision’s CEO Bobby Kotick, who said that just a “very small segment” of gamers want new IPs and changes in the gaming world, while the vast majority is happy with sequels. At first, I was [...]

We all knew that The Sims 3 will be huge in terms of copies sold, but nobody could’ve anticipated the huge amount of units EA’s latest life sim game would generate, especially because of a really unwanted leaked Sims 3 version before the game’s launch. However, we have today the sales numbers for The Sims [...]

OnLive was presented to the public as the future of gaming during the GDC 2009, but since then the entire world (as well as the developers) have gone silent and soon everybody forgot about this “revolutionary” feature. All but one – the Big Download Blog, who contacted the OnLive devs to see if the project [...]