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Amazon Debuts Multi-Platform Indie Games Store

Posted by timothy on from the modern-chaebol-emerge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amazon today announced an initiative to help indie game developers promote and sell their games: the Indie Games Store. The dedicated storefront is a new category in Amazon's Digital Video Games Store, designed specifically to help indie games for PC, Mac, and the Web get noticed. The store appears to be US-only, but if you don't live there you should be able to get away with just putting in an American address. Most of the games are Steam downloads, so where you are in the world shouldn't matter too much."

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  1. Humble by telchine · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like the Humble Bundle but not humble and not a bundle!

    1. Re:Humble by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Informative

      Personally I think its great and is just one more example of how now that the consoles are all going to online only DRM boxes that PC gaming is the way to go. Thanks to good old fashioned competition there is MUCH better prices, the indie devs get more of a percentage than the consoles, you have a huge choice in places to shop, the hardware has never been cheaper (hell I've built machines that game great for less than $350) and you of course control it, I'd say its just a better experience all around.

      Oh and speaking of Humble they now have weekly sales with big name devs, this week is the entire Serious Sam series so anybody who doesn't have those should check it out.

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  2. Indie? by JohnG · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first five games I see when I go there are from Microsoft, Sega, and Warner Brothers. If that is who us indies are competing with for space in Amazon's indie store, I'm not sure what they are calling it indie.

  3. on the contrary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love steam. It means I can keep my game catalog as I upgrade my machine, switch operating systems, switch platforms... my games are mine. While I can't sell used games, I always try them out non-steam first before I decide I'm going to purchase them. Steam guarantees that I'll have those games available to me no matter what happens to my computer. To me, it's the best DRM out there, and the benefits outweigh my dislike for DRM.