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Our publishers and game store partners have one very important goal in common: to sell games. Working together, both parties can make this happen more quickly and successfully.

 

• Exclusive promotions or discounts: Game store partners, you can request exclusive discounts from our publisher partners. We encourage this co-marketing and will facilitate the introductions. Just let us know what game and what distribution (regional, worldwide) requested.

 

Real-life example: Just this week, game store partner Gamer Reaction teamed up with publisher FRONTLINE Studios to promote the game Gene Labs and its contest. Gamer Reaction is able to sell Gene Labs at an exclusive discount in exchange for talking up the game in a podcast and other promotional methods.

 

• Contests: Publishers, promote new and older titles by coordinating giveaways (free games, merchandise) with game store partners. Game store partners, choose winners by hosting trivia contests, scavenger hunts, competitions or other challenges. Get creative.

• Interviews: Game store partners, do you have a gaming-related site? Even if you don’t, why not interview one of our publishers for your site blog or news section? You will benefit by promoting your game store, and publishers will benefit by promoting their games.

 

What are your ideas for synergistic relationships between publishers and game store partners? Share them with us and let’s make things happen.

A big welcome to our newest game store partners, Gamer Reaction and Digital Download Game World! Their game stores are branded to their sites and contain the same games that GameStreamer carries on our stores, GameStreamer.com and PCGameStore.com.

 

Gamer Reaction is a popular gaming news site that features podcasts and articles for the “common gamer.” Marketed worldwide, Digital Download Game World covers news about the growth of the digital distribution sector of the video game industry.

 

For both sites, a game store is a perfect fit with their audiences.

 

“At Gamer Reaction, we are constantly talking about all the games we are playing or looking forward to or remember from years ago,” says Dianna Lora, Gamer Reaction Producer. “A GameStreamer game store seemed like the obvious choice to us. We tell people about games, and then they don't even have to leave our website to get them. Gamer Reaction tosses the ball up, GameStreamer dunks it.”

 

Daniel Awadalla, CEO of Digital Download Game World, says, “As digital download game sales continue to grow worldwide, we can’t be anything but excited about an opportunity to enter into a partnership such as this. We found the staff at Game Streamer Inc. to be highly motivated and professional and the integration of the store with our current site could not have gone more smoothly.” 

 

Game store partners have full administrative control over their stores, including which games to sell and which ones to feature. Templated game stores cost partners nothing, and they receive a cut of their stores’ revenue. Fully customized stores require a fee. Game store partners are responsible for marketing their own stores, but GameStreamer does offer a few free tools. Partners can create banner ads to promote games on their websites. Also, GameStreamer creates a customized, weekly newsletter featuring new games and specials that partners can send to their users.

 

If you are interested in adding a game store to your site, contact us at info@gamestreamer.net.