Digital entertainment distribution startup Yekra has raised $3 million in funding to give studios a way to distribute DRM-protected content without it being burdensome.
Indie developers can now sell access to their ongoing betas through Steam.
Ubisoft will sell 25 third-party games from a dozen publishers.
Valve's Steam service and the Mac App Store must be trembling in fear right now.
Redux is aiming to move beyond the realm of web video aggregation with its new video distribution platform, which will allow artists to directly sell video on the web. The company has teamed up with Humble Bundle, the folks behind …
SnagFilms, an independent film-distribution startup, has secured a new $7 million round of funding, the company announced today.
SnagFilms has the distribution rights to over 3,000 indie movies and documentaries including “Casino Jack,” “Super Size Me,” “Enron: The Smartest Guys …
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While technology has certainly made it easier for people to self-publish comic books or graphic novels, the same isn’t true when it comes to digital distribution — or getting self-published “indie” comic books into multiple online stores so people can …
Comedian Louis CK’s recent digital distribution experiment to sell his latest standup performance independently has generated over $1 million, he announced in a statement on his website yesterday. Revenue from the special topped $500,000 after its first four days on …
Comedian Louis CK has divulged the results of his $5 web special experiment, and the numbers look good.
In just four days, the special has sold over 110,000 copies making over $500,000, CK said in a statement today. He …
Comedian Louis CK gave new details about his digital distribution experiment in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” Q&A session today.
CK recently made his latest performance Live at the Beacon Theater available as a DRM-free download for purchase on his …
Louis CK is known for pushing boundaries in his comedy, but with his recent online special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” the wildly popular comedian is also embarking on new territory for entertainment distribution.
Typically we’d have to wait for …
Cloud-gaming firm Happy Cloud plans to work with Advanced Micro Devices to bring games-on-demand to connected TVs.
Under the partnership, Happy Cloud will give users access to Windows-based PC games via web-connected TVs that use AMD’s embedded G-Series microprocessors. Those …
In a bid to expand PC hardcore game sales, top game retailer GameStop is launching a new digital PC game purchase method that gamers can use inside stores.
Starting today, gamers can use a variety of payment systems to pay …
Game-streaming startup Gaikai has scored a major deal to stream high-quality video games for Walmart.com, the online division of the world’s biggest retailer, VentureBeat has learned. If the new way of selling games works out, it could mean a big …
Video game retail giant GameStop has opened up a store to sell games on its Facebook fan page. The store will sell physical games that users can receive in the mail or pick up at a local store.
The move …
GameStop is the world’s biggest retailer of video games with 6,670 stores in 17 countries. But the company is hedging its bets when it comes to digital distribution. Today, it announced it would acquire Spawn Labs and Impulse to bolster …
Warner Bros. is broadening its experiment with digital movie distribution by releasing five more marquee movies for rent on Facebook.
As video stores die off and consumers become more comfortable watching digital movies, Warner Bros. and other studios are moving …
Sony will release digital versions of all new games alongside physical copies so gamers can download and begin playing games immediately on its newest portable gaming device, the Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP).
Digital distribution has become pretty popular because …
Warner Bros. Entertainment said tonight it will enable Facebook users to rent movies directly on Facebook and watch those movies within the studio’s movie fan pages.
The new movie distribution method marks an attempt to draw new revenue streams from …
In digital game distribution, big companies are starting to dominate the market. But Jared Kim, chief executive of WeGame, believes there is room in the market for his startup.
Today, WeGame is launching its business for distributing games via online …
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