There's no doubt that the PC game industry is moving more and more towards a digital distribution model and today another such service officially announced its presense. The ModDB.com web site, perhaps the single biggest online resource for learning about and downloading third party mods for games, has just announced its plans to enter this growing market.

The service is going under the codenam Desura and ModDB.com claims their service differs from others like Steam and Direct2Drive in that they give mod and game developers more control over how they share things like news, screenshots, movies and other things to the public. Currently the service is in a private closed beta stage and there's no word on when Desura will go live to the public.