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by Anthony Rosenbaum · in General Discussion · 05/25/2006 (6:57 am) · 2 replies

Here is an article from slash dot

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Via GameSetWatch, an AP story about a boxed edition of several IGF entrants. The Independent Games festival has attracted a number of creative designers, and the results are now available on the retail shelves. From the article: "Indie games aren't commonplace outside of the World Wide Web. Despite that, Moondance successfully wooed Best Buy to stock 'IG: Independent Games' on their shelves beginning last fall. The disc features such casual games as the engineering sim 'Bridge Construction Set' and the popular robot battle game 'Dark Horizons Lore Invasion.' 'Our strategy is to have games for all kinds of gamers: traditional gamers, family gamers and now independent gamers,' says Chris Koller, merchandising director for video games at Best Buy



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Hey that means I'll make more money
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Torque Owner Mark
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05/25/2006 (7:45 am)
Very good thing to hear. It appears Best Buy knows that there is a decent chunk of folks who only want a decent/cheap game to play every now and then, not these expensive technically oustanding games that require too much time to get anywhere with. Decently profitable I'd say.

Torque 3D Owner iHugMedia
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05/25/2006 (3:41 pm)
I'm still trying to find a copy of Steer Madness that isn't overpriced...
I was hoping ACMI would start selling copies of the games they had on display, but they never ended up doing that...

Oh Yeah! The Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne have a 'Games Room' whree they display a multiplayer game Federation Square walkaround and all of the IGF winners, and demonstrate mobile gaming technology.... I should have posted about that a few months back...