Op-Ed: If You Want To Fight Piracy, Make Better Games. Valve has had tremendous success selling games like Team Fortress 2 on its Steam digital distribution platform.Image courtesy Valve The game publisher Ubisoft set off no small amount of controversy last year when it began shipping its PC games with a restrictive digital rights management scheme that forced customers to stay online in order to play.
Scrupulous gamers who’d paid their money were irritated — if their connection dropped, they’d lose all of their progress even in a single-player mode. Bioshock Creator: New Consoles Would Be “Bad For Everybody” E3 2010 roundup: The best innovations in the video game industry. After five days of non-stop action at the E3 video game show last week, I’ve come up with my list of the top innovations in the video game industry.
Naturally, the much-ballyhooed Nintendo 3DS is at the top. These new technologies span everything from the tools used to make games to the hardware that runs them. Based on these cool new ideas, I expect the video game industry will be instrumental in getting gamers to spend more dollars on interactive entertainment than they already do. Those who are worried about stagnation in the video game industry need not fret.