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The VGChartz Network is a collection of five video game websites: VGChartz, gamrFeed, gamrReview, gamrTV, and gamrConnect. VGChartz sits at the center of the network and is a video game sales tracking website, providing weekly sales figures of console software and hardware by region. The site was launched in June 2005, and is owned by Brett Walton.
For games that were originally released as freeware, see List of freeware video games. For free and open-source games, and proprietary games re-released as FLOSS, see List of open-source video games. For proprietary games with released source code (and proprietary or freeware content), see List of commercial video games with available source code.
This is the sales charts subsection of WikiProject Video games' Reference library. Since the 1980s, many market research firms around the world (such as the NPD Group) have tracked and published data regarding the sales of video games. This page archives and organizes the charts released by such firms, to give Wikipedians easy access to ...
Downloadable content (DLC) [a] is additional content created for an already released video game, distributed through the Internet by the game's publisher. It can either be added for no extra cost or it can be a form of video game monetization, [1] enabling the publisher to gain additional revenue from a title after it has been purchased, often using some type of microtransaction system.
One of the first examples of digital distribution in video games was GameLine, which operated during the early 1980s. The service allowed Atari 2600 owners to use a specialized cartridge to connect through a phone line to a central server and rent a video game for 5–10 days. The GameLine service was terminated during the video game crash of 1983.
Ubisoft Leamington (formerly FreeStyleGames Limited) was a British video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Leamington Spa.Founded in November 2002 by six industry veterans formerly of Codemasters and Rare, the studio was bought by Activision in September 2008.
Media Create competes with Enterbrain's Famitsu and MediaWorks' Dengeki PlayStation in the market for providing Japanese game sales data. Because there are three different tracking firms, there will always be three different sales numbers for any software and hardware title.
The Impulse Client was replaced by the GameStop PC Downloads App, which allows users to download content purchased prior to the discontinuation of Impulse. New digital PC game purchases are made through the GameStop.com store. Support for legacy Impulse/GameStop App game downloads was handled for some time through Game Stop Guest Care. [9]