Furthermore, year over year, week one console digital revenue for the franchise is estimated to have increased over 200 percent.
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It also means offering broadband Internet service accessible via a personal digital assistant, game console, cell phone or set-top box.
But they decided to release a downloadable Star Trek ship combat game and focus on the bigger console experience with Digital Extremes for a later date (now Q1 2013).
You'll be interacting with a 10.4-inch capacitive touch screen, which is positioned front and center, while a squat 12-inch digital gauge and information readout console is fixed just behind the steering wheel.
All games will be sold through digital downloads straight to the console, and stores like Gamestop will close for good, with Best Buy taking huge hits as no one will buy DVDs or physical games anymore.
Another Xbox rumor is that the console will be purely digital and not use discs at all, negating the entire concept of a used game.
Microsoft is even offering digital movie rentals on its XBox 360 game console.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is even offering digital movie rentals on its XBox 360 game console.
Once digital distribution takes over, the basic mechanics of a console interface will shut down most casual pirates.
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With luck, these games will clear the way for Microsoft's push to turn the console into a way to crack open the digital entertainment market.
There's digital distribution like Steam and, increasingly, downloads from the major console and game makers.
Consoles have always fared better than PCs when it comes to piracy, and as a result console games have traditionally been free of the sorts of digital rights management that PC gamers have been using for years.
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With digital and analog inputs, an easy-to-read-and-stack control console and a wireless remote, the Logitech Surround Sound Speakers Z906 let you take charge of your entertainment.
As a video processor module in a small mini-box, the new accessory is simply placed in-line at the output of any HDMI video source, such as a video game console, DVD or Blu-ray player, media player, or any digital broadcast.
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So, my point is that the more things move towards digital downloads, activation codes, and even the rumored always-on DRM that the new Xbox console will supposedly have, this does more and more to make long-term access difficult if not impossible.
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The Paramount Movies app is a console based version of its Ultraviolet service already unleashed on the PC and iOS, letting users stream digital copies from their cloud libraries.
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