Level 3 Communications Blog
For several years now, content providers have enjoyed an exploding digital media market, driven by hungry U.S. consumers. Digital distribution sales in music, movies, video and games grew anywhere between 7 and 15% this past year, depending on the type of content1. To be clear, there are no signs that the U.S. market is cooling, [...]
When will digital game distribution overtake physical media? The reason I ask is because I don’t want to drive across town to buy video games anymore, period. To be fair, I certainly don’t wish the fate of Blockbuster or Virgin Megastore on anyone. It’s just that, for both personal and professional reasons, the continuous growth [...]
As video gaming industry revenues continue to decline year over year, I still believe that gaming is a good place to be. Let’s flash back to Labor Day for a minute. Excitement around football season abounds. Fantasy football drafts are in full swing and we are poised to see how our hand-picked team performs. And [...]
At Casual Connect Gaming Conference in Seattle, the debate continued as to whether Smart TVs will become the next gaming device. The gaming industry expects to see 150 million connected TVs, whether it is Over-the-Top (OTT) TV or “smart” set top boxes (Cable or Roku) by 2016,. Today, however, from a game developer’s perspective, “Smart [...]
Ever try to call your preteen on that really expensive mobile phone with the not-cheap monthly plan that you bought so that you can “keep in touch?” They never pick up. Fairly quickly you learn that they will only respond to texts, which works until they decide that they can’t be bothered with that either. [...]
If the latest numbers from The NPD Group are to be believed, the Gaming industry may just be clinging to its last “life”. According to NPD, year over year retail revenue dropped 34% to $750.6 M. This represents the worst performance in the industry since 2004. The lone bright spot, NPD predicts that digital and other revenue [...]
Last week, while the Apple fanboys all flocked to San Francisco to have their collective minds blown by the iCloud, the real action in cloud was happening down the 101 in Southern Cal at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I was really surprised with what I saw at E3. While everyone else was buzzing over the [...]
