Who's Killing The Music Industry Now? Video Games! [Deep Thoughts] Music sales have been on the decline for years—even if that decline seems to be slowing—with record executives citing illegal filesharing and downloading as one of the root causes for the downturn. But are all those Sam Goody's closing and [..]
PC Sales Charts: Killing Floor Wipes The Killing Floor [Sales Charts] Funny what happens when you're the developers behind Red Orchestra and you go and release a new game about zombies. Your game goes to #1! Yes, Tripwire's Killing Floor has maintained its run at the top of the Steam charts, strong pre-sales from preceding weeks continuing into str [..]
"We Wanted Wii Music's Music To Appeal To Very Broad Audience" [Shigeru Miyamoto] While Wii Music has been getting a tepid reception, at least Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is excited. Really, really, really excited. So excited that even after working on the game all those months, he's still rushing home to play it. When he's not playing it, he's thinking abo [..]
Nokia makes new music handsets official, expands music services Following last night?s little slip up, Nokia has officially launched three new music handsets, the 5030, 5330 XpressMusic and the 5730 XpressMusic. Preliminary details were a bit shoddy but the basics were all pretty much covered. Now that they?re official however, let?s take a look at what we didn?t know last night:
First up is the [...] [..]
Silicon Alley Insider
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MySpace Settles With Universal Music, Launching "MySpace Music" (NWS) News Corp.'s MySpace (NWS) has settled a long-running copyright lawsuit with Universal Music Group, a deal that gives the social network the go-ahead to launch its own music joint venture. Also on board: Sony-BMG and Warner Music Group [..]
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Warner Music Group to offer music through Nokia phones
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'PlayStation Game Music' service streams PS3 music from phones in Japan
This is so cool. Well, maybe "cool" isn't the right way to describe a service that lets you stream Final Fantasy music from anywhere, but we like the idea. In Japan, Sony just started a "PlayStation Game Music" service that allows subscribers to several mobil [..]