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Here’s what we were picking from: Out This Week.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine,” sang Michael Stipe in 1987, and we all know he was singing with eerie prescience about the end of the videogame industry’s annual release cycle. The shops are still busy, the tills are ringing and Nintendo is counting its money, but anyone in search of a brand new gaming experience now has at least two long, cold months ahead of them.
Well, maybe not any more. The slow but inexorable shift towards distributing games over the internet means that it’s possible to release a game at any time of the year and the comparatively low costs have sent the volume of games made and sold through the roof.