GameTap, Codemasters Team Up
The deal spans recent Codemasters-published releases, such as the internally developed racer DiRT (PC, X360) and Triumph Studios' strategy action-adventure hybrid Overlord (PC, X360), as well as impending releases, including MercurySteam's spooky first person shooter Clive Barker's Jericho (PC, PS3, X360) and Spark Unlimited's alternate history FPS Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (PC, PS3, X360).
The games will be available from both GameTap's subscription-based service and its online store. Upcoming Codemasters titles will arrive on GameTap the same day they hit stores, much like Eidos' current GameTap offerings.
"As Codemasters further expands in North America, GameTap was an obvious choice in delivering our award-winning content to a new audience," explained Codemasters president of publishing Geoff Mulligan. "We have secured retail success and this new partnership with GameTap is the next step to expanding our business through subscription play and ad revenue."
"Codemasters is a forward thinking company with great current and upcoming titles that are exactly the kind of games our subscribers want to play," noted Turner executive VP Stuart Snyder. "Making games available to play day and date with the retail release to our subscribers is a top priority for our business."
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baron calamity
replyGametap is quickly becoming my favorite service. I play more crap on that than anything else.
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It has a nice graphical front end that allows your to browse games and videos. You select what game you want, it downloads if you haven't downloaded it before and then you play it. Its really that simple. They tune the emulators better than some of the stuff you get off the web so they all just work. (unless you have vista and then you are up to the mercy of what the game supports.) They even have some dual core patches for games that don't support dual core. For simple arcade games, they have leader boards. The only negative is you have to be online to play any of the games and it does have a monthly fee. However they have almost 1000 games and at $10 a month, its kind of a steal in my opinion.
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Fairly cheap monthly fee, and a shitload of excellent games to download and play. It's a bit restricted, since you have to load the games through Gametap's GUI, but it's worth it to be able to legally play a lot of rare, excellent games.
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