As game developers and publishers look more and more to digital distribution as a way to bypass current brick-and-mortar game sellers -- in part to cut down on game reselling, a major loss to their bottom line -- we could be witnessing the beginning of a new model of game development. In the future, when you drop $60-$70 on a new game, you might just be buying the game engine and the background art, with the knowledge that the developers will be releasing content packs that provide entirely new, self-contained game experiences that build off the original title.
Abeeda Mahboob on 18 Sep 12The 3.8 million-plus Facebook users who like the Resident Evil page can now access Shared Nightmare, an interactive video created by Capcom, developer of the iconic gaming franchise, and digital marketing and communications agency Crush, to promote the Oct. 2 release of Resident Evil 6. Shared Nightmare is a Facebook application that allows users to share their "last moments alive amongst the devastation of the game's global 'C-Virus,'" personalized by including their friends, including the ability to send them a final message in the middle of the video.
