Metaboli Signs Agreement with Microsoft for the Distribution of their PC Games Catalogue Throughout Europe by Online Subscription
Microsoft games will soon be available for legal download in Europe via the games on demand service developed by Metaboli, www.metaboli.com.
Paris, France (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) May 20, 2005 -- Many distinguished PC games including Rise of
Nations®, Dungeon Siege®, Age of Empires® II and Zoo Tycoon® will soon be
available for legal download in Europe via the games on demand service developed
by Metaboli, www.metaboli.com.
Metaboli is a French company whose
offers are today becoming a reference all over Europe. The game sites that
Metaboli develop allow users to download games (normally bought on CDRoms) over
a high speed internet connection. Metaboli offers online subscriptions
comparable to satellite TV bundles: after paying a monthly subscription, the
user has unlimited access to a large catalogue of PC games, which he can then
download and play at will.
Already working on the Janus project, their
latest version of their DRM software which allows rights management for
temporary files, Microsoft's signing with Metaboli encourages the development of
digital media subscription services that respond to the quality, the diversity
and the simplicity demanded by the high-speed-internet community trying to make
the move towards legal download services.
Interest in the development of
services like those offered by Metaboli stems from the games industry's wish to
reduce peer to peer piracy and their desire to create new distribution methods
that maximize not only the consumption of PC games but also the revenue
generated by them.
This agreement follows the prediction of many market
analysts, that the future of online distribution of media (that is music, video
and especially games which, alone amongst digital media, already has a strong
link to PCs and the internet) lies in the subscription to unlimited access
offers. A good example of the success of subscription offers can be seen in the
world of music, where Napster's unlimited access offer (unlimited access to a
catalogue of more than 700 000 titles for a monthly price of €9.90) gets more
subscribers every day.
About Metaboli:
Formed in 2001 by a group of PC
gamers specialized in high speed internet connections, Metaboli offers via
download and by subscription, the most attractive games catalogue in the world
with games from Atari, Dreamcatcher, Eidos, Sega, THQ and UbiSoft. This
agreement with Microsoft consolidates Metaboli's position as the leader in this
market.
Metaboli distributes its service via Internet Service Providers
and large Internet Sites for whom Metaboli creates co-branded gateway-sites
like, for example http://jeuxvideo.wanadoo.fr for Wanadoo France. The service is
distributed in the same way by AOL France, Club-Internet (T-Online France),
Noos, Tele2, NC-Numéricâble Gamekult.com, Clubic.com, GameOne, Allocine.com
(and, of course, by Wanadoo France).
The Metaboli service is also
distributed on www.metaboli.com.
About Microsoft Games
Studio
Microsoft Games Studio is the worlds leading games developer and
publisher for the Xbox® games system, Windows and online platforms. Made up of a
network of cutting edge developers, Microsoft Games Studio is committed to
creating varied and innovative games for Windows (http://www.microsoft.com/games/), particularly franchises like
Age of Empires®, Flight Simulator and Zoo Tycoon; for Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/),
particularly franchises like Halo®, Project Gotham Racing® and NFL Fever; for
Zone.com (http://www.zone.com/), the official games channel of the MSN®
network who host, among others, the well known games Bejeweled and
OutSmart®.
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