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rockpapershotgun.com - 1/30/2009
PC Game Sales: 47% Of PC Purchases Are Digital
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Written by Kieron Gillen on January 29, 2009 at 1:40 pm. This is totally not an easy one to illustrate Or so say the RPS readers anyway. I wanted to do a follow up on the polls Jim ran a few weeks ago, highlighting the results and what they say about the state of the PC nation (in short: People ...
The Official ASUS Eee PC Group
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The Official ASUS Eee PC Group
— facebook.com — Global Basic Info Type: Business - Marketing & Advertising Description: Easy to learn, easy to work, easy... to play! Contact Info Email: Website: http://www.wepc.com/ Recent News GOOD NEWS! The Eee PC 1000HE will be available soon! Pre-order yours ... (more) The Official ASUS Eee PC Group

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ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Atom N280 netbook up for preorder
slashgear.com - 2/2/2009
ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Atom N280 netbook up for preorder
— slashgear.com — ASUS have announced their latest netbook, the Eee PC 1000HE complete with Intel’s Atom N280 processor. As... well as the 1.66GHz CPU and HD-capable Intel GD40 chipset, the 1000HE has a 10-inch LED-backlit display, 160GB hard-drive and WiFi b/g/n. ... (more) ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Atom N280 netbook up for preorder

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Kotaku:  Survey: 47% Of PC Game Purchases Are Digital [PC]

Tech Digest:  Amazon quietly launches casual game downloads

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Survey: 47% Of PC Game Purchases Are Digital [PC]
Kotaku — ... buying games solely from a retail store at a meagre 7%. Most alarming of all, however, is that after a little mathematics, the RPS team worked out that 47% of all PC game purchases in 2008 (at least among this survey group) were digital ones. You ever wonder why people like Valve and Direct2Drive never release sales data for their services? It's not because they're covering for how few sales they make. They're making sure they can keep that sweet, sweet honey pot all to themselves. PC Game Sales: 47% Of PC Purchases Are Digital [Rock Paper Shotgun]

Amazon quietly launches casual game downloads
Tech Digest — ... unannounced, Amazon has enabled a casual games download service in the States. It's got more than 600 available, each costs less than $10, and there's a try-before-you-buy service available to, where you can play a game for 30 minutes before you buy it. No sign of anything more hardcore, this is so far just limited to Bejewelled and the like, but if this is a sign of things to come then it could be the shot in the arm that PC gaming needs. Especially if recent figures suggesting that half of PC game purchases are digital is true. ...

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