Often in this industry I hear people speak of the imminent death of retail game stores. At each conference I’ve attended for the past two years, there’s been at least one talk about how digital distribution is poised to consume the now anachronistic brick-and-mortar institutions we all know so well.
I hate to be the one to burst our glorious digital dream, but retail's got a longer life than we, as an industry, seem to think.
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