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1 in 4 Gamers Pay and Download Instead of Leaving Their Gaming Chairs – What’s a High Street Again?

by Jay Garrett on October 28, 2009

3_steam_createaccountGamers love to have the latest and bestest and it shows that 25% of gamers surveyed said that paying for and downloading the digital only version is the way forward.

The International Gamers Survey, conducted by Today’s Gamers took in the opinion of 13,000 gamers across Europe and the United States and found that, on average, around a quarter of all of them have bought game extras online in-game.

That number actually increases amongst the owners of consoles such as the PS3 and Xbox 360 which make a big song-and-dance over their digital delivery systems.

Before you start to poo-poo these figures you have to understand that all this includes map packs, optional extras and various in-game upgrades, which are usually offered for little more than a few pounds or even pence at a time.

The UK figures for full-game downloads are quite a lot lower at a mere 7% of gamers currently buying full games in digital download format – although that figure doubles among PC owners, where online-only shopping services like the lovely Steam have built up a sizeable following and reputation for reliability.

By-the-way – on Steam this week you can get S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl for under £4!!!! Just saying ;)

Perhaps the UK numbers would increase if we had faster, cheaper and truly unlimited download services here ;)

Today’s Gamers believes that download-only sales numbers of proper games will grow to a point that no-one will be bothered going to the bricks-and-mortar stores in as little as three years time.

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TiLR Me – Your Boss Can Be There When They’re Not…..

by Jay Garrett on September 28, 2008

Teleconferencing.

It’s such a very impersonal way of conducting meetings isn’t it?

All the people back in the conference room get is a screen with a window showing another window that contains your beautiful visage.

Just like being there – it isn’t!

RoboDynamics, on the other hand, wants to popularise what they call “telepresence,” and it necessitates inhabiting a robotic body in the room.

Ok, so it doesn’t really look like you – or anyone else for that matter.

So what if the TiLR looks like a proto-Dalek with a flatscreen for a face?  The idea itself is fab and a little scary.

You’d be able to scoot around, tilt and pan its camera, and talk face to face with people in the remote environment……….I’d rather be the one controlling the droid and not the one being faced with it to be honest!

Although I can’t see a boss cruising down the office halls “in” this thing, waving virtually to employees and stopping into cubicles to check in I can see some positives

I’m guessing it’s a helpful idea if the CEO works from the HQ in another continent but still would like to have a presence at the Christmas party or hand out awards and such as well as roaming around the conference table.

Why don’t we all just work from home and have these back at the office?…………….

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