Today the marketing team behind Robot Cache sent out a press release pimping the first 11 video game publishers and developers that have signed on to the Steam competitor’s decentralized and, honestly, quite unique PC game distribution platform. It’s an encouraging list. A list that teases a bigger promise. But in a cynical industry overflowing with competition for your dollars, it may not be quite enough to make you hunt down Robot Cache’s offices and demand early access to the service.

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Heads-up, videogame fans and industry followers: Here’s some interesting news that, to what will either be your fascination or your chagrin, just happens to involve the word “blockchain.”

A company called Robot Cache plans an interesting product that amounts to a competitor to Steam, the popular digital game marketplace run by Valve. The big wrinkle: Its creators say it will let users resell games using a proprietary digital currency, with their transactions tracked on the blockchain.Read More »

Veteran game publisher Brian Fargo and other game industry veterans hope to change the PC industry by creating a new cryptocurrency that serves as an alternative to the app stores.

Fargo’s new company Robot Cache will create a digital PC games platform, just like Valve’s Steam digital distribution service, but it will give game publishers and developers about 95 percent of the proceeds from game sales, rather than just 70 percent as Steam and others do. Robot Cache will compete directly with the likes of Steam and GOG, and it hopes to sign up the major competitors.

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Steam, Spotify, Vudu, and iTunes. The landscape of visual, interactive, and audio entertainment has rapidly shifted to digital ownership over physical. While I can’t speak for film and music fans, I know that a ton of gamers dream of reselling their digitally-purchased games when they’re finished with them. That dream may come true with the impending launch of Robot Cache.

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Robot Cache sells games which are tracked via blockchain tech and due to this, they can be resold safely. Publishers and developers take a cut from both brand new sales and second-hand sales – 95 and 70 per cent respectively – while consumers get 25 per cent of the proceeds from selling their games. The platform itself takes a five per cent slice…

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As we all know, digital game sales have begun to tower over physical competitors. They have increased, but especially in the case of PC games. More and more gamers are opting to buy their PC games online in a number of different ways. This includes directly from publishers, through bundle sites, key resale sites, and of course platforms like Steam. As it turns out, there’s a new kid coming up. Valve has cornered the market for quite some time, but this new competitor might just chip away at the loyal customer count.

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Brian Fargo, the video game executive behind the hugely successful post-apocalyptic “Fallout” franchise, has founded a new tech startup in San Diego.

The upstart, called Robot Cache, is building the first online store where gamers can sell “used” copies of their digital computer games once done playing…

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Steam alternatives are cropping up all over the place, so let’s throw one more into the ring. Announced earlier this year, Brian Fargo’s Robot Cache officially began signups for its so-called Early Access period today. Why should you care? Well, players can sell used games, developers get to keep 95 percent of a game’s revenue, and there’s a cryptocurrency involved.

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The UFC Que Choisir (a French union for consumers) declared a victory today in its years-long fight with Valve. The District Court of Paris has granted consumers the right to resell their games purchased on Valve’s Steam platform. The news was first discovered and translated on Reddit…

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Robot Cache is a digital store that lets you buy games, resell games and, should you choose, mine cryptocurrency that you can use to buy new games.

It’s a fascinating experiment. According to its creators, the system uses blockchain technology to verify each digital sale and its movement between accounts, creating a form of DRM that stops games from being duplicated within the network.

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But the announcement of Robot Cache last week certainly turned our heads. This is a brand new decentralised PC games storefront being set up by InXile creator and industry veteran Brian Fargo, that uses blockchain tech and its own cryptocurrency…

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Robot Cache’s aim is to reduce the fees paid by publishers and developers by 80 per cent according to the official announcement. The newly created firm claims to have the “the lowest transaction fees of any digital PC video game distribution platform” with devs and publishers being able to retain up to 95 per cent of the sales income – which is “25% higher than the current industry standard,” the announcement said.

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Look out Steam, there’s a new digital storefront coming to town. Called Robot Cache, the service states that its users will be able to purchase games just like on any other digital store. But it sets itself apart by stating that they’ll also be able to sell these games on when they’re finished with them.

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Robot Cache, a new PC games storefront and Steam competitor – which describes itself as the “first decentralised PC video game distribution platform” – has been unveiled.

The service is founded by InXile Entertainment boss Brian Fargo, and arrives with much talk of cutting-edge technology and ambitious features, not least of which is the fact that it claims to be the first online games storefront to allow players to sell their used games – with one big caveat.

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