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Fewer and fewer console games are seeing a physical release

The number of physical console game releases continues to decline even as the number of digital console games explodes. Anyone watching the game industry knows that the console market is quickly shifting away from games sold on physical media and toward the digital download dominance that PC gamers have known for years . But a […]

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Too much of a good thing: Mourning the slow death of the retail game store

$34.99 for Centipede on the Atari 2600 might sound cheap, but that 1983 price is the equivalent of roughly $90 today. [credit: Retro Waste ] When I was a kid, buying video games was an incredibly stressful process. In the late ’80s, I was too young to buy magazines to find out what games deserved […]