Tag Archives: digital games

NPD to finally include digital sales data for games

Sound the sirens, phone your mother-in-law, NPD Group is set to finally include digital sales data for games. Continue reading NPD to finally include digital sales data for games

The Many Terrible Reasons Why I Don’t Buy Digital

Lack of support for digital console games is impacting our wallets and the video games industry at large. Keeping in mind the spectacular collection of both ending and impending Black Friday deals on the frequently updated MONG Moneysaver page, competition between the digital and retail space is very real, but what keeps digital prices so high?

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EA Access Beta Preview

EA Access is a service much like Games with Gold or the Instant Game Collection (the free game programs that come with Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus Respectively). It was announced by EA last week and I was lucky enough to find a beta key waiting in my inbox when I got home. I managed to download and install it with no issues.

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The Digital Future’s Next Big Thing Is Here

During this week’s Quick Time Event, the gang will be discussing digital versus physical retail games and where we place our allegiance. The scales are continuously shifting in the battle, and recently a major victory was announced for digital-lovers everywhere: starting in less than a week, the PlayStation home consoles will support pre-loading.

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Question of the Week: 5/7/14

There are all kinds of controversial questions out there regarding the video game industry.  Each and every Wednesday we will ask each member to give their opinion on one of them.   Every once in a while we will have simpler questions that are more of a “Get to know your editor” type question. This will give you a chance to see that we are not all like minded and have a wide range of opinions.    Also: You the readers can submit questions for us to answer here.  So feel free to submit them to this story or emailing them to mong.podcast@gmail.com Continue reading Question of the Week: 5/7/14