GameTap Moving Away From Retro Games
GameTap, which brought several Wing Commander games to its subscription service in 2007, has announced that it's moving away from retro games. Their technical center in Atlanta will also be closing. The service has been changing focus since being sold off a couple years back, and their new direction is moving towards digital sales and downloads of newer games. With all the ridiculous shenanigans in the retro gaming industry lately, our bets are squarely placed on the source. You can find an original summary of the Wing Commander material that GameTap posted here.
As for the immediate future of GameTap, the next update to the service will also occur at the end of this month, when all the games will use a new download technology and be 64-bit compatible. The company is trying to move away from being associated with retro games -- with the possibility of dropping its brand name altogether in the future. For now, the update will create three major tabs on the GameTap site: "PC games Unlimited Play," "PC games Download to Own" and "Retro games Unlimited Play.""We need to show that we have moved forward and that we now offer a wide range of recent PC games," the GameTap representative said. The company will add 15 more games to its catalog of 550 PC games. "Some old PC games will be replaced by more recent PC games or by some casual games. Our decisions were taken based on our gameplay statistics, which is much better than our own opinion about the games or the opinion expressed by some of our users on the forum. We offer what people play."
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