Analysts: Xbox 360 Topped US Sales In January
Games industry analysts have weighed in with US sales predictions for the month of January ahead of the NPD Group’s release of official market data this Thursday. Both Wedbush’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR expect Xbox 360 to top the monthly rankings with 380,000 units sold. Read more here.
Assassin’s Creed Ships 6.5 Million Units
Ubisoft said today that it generated €600 million (£505.5m) in sales during the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. The firm shipped 6.5 million copies of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood to retail during the quarter, while dance titles Just Dance, Just Dance 2, Just Dance Kids, Michael Jackson: The Experience, and Dance on Broadway hit a [...]
Valve CEO: Steam “Tremendously Profitable”, Has Up To 70% Of Market
An analyst at IHS Screen Digest has estimated Steam’s 2010 revenue at “high hundreds of millions of dollars”, while Gabe Newell has said the company is “tremendously profitable”. Read more here.
Confirmed: Activision Cancels True Crime Hong Kong And Discontinues Both Guitar Hero And DJ Hero Franchises
Activision has announced that it has canned development on True Crime: Hong Kong as well as discontinued its Guitar Hero/DJ Hero business unit. Speaking in it’s financial report, the publisher confirmed the closure of its Guitar Hero business unit and the cancellation of this year’s in-development Guitar Hero game. “We simply cannot make these games [...]
Take-Two Q3 Financial Report: Red Dead Redemption Sells 8 Million
Take-Two has reported its financial results for the third quarter that ended December 31, 2010, posting net revenues of $334.3 million and profit of $40.9 million. During the same period a year earlier, revenues were higher at $360.4 million, but profit was lower at $37.9 million. In its financial highlights, the company cited eight million [...]
Fox News Denounces Bulletstorm For It’s Extreme Violence And Sexual Insinuation, EA And Epic Responds
FoxNews.com has expressed their strong censure against Bulletstorm by deploring it in a scathing article Titled “Is Bulletstorm the Worst Video Game in the World?” It criticized the game for linking sex and violence via innuendo-laden awards in its skillshot system and the award names for feats of in-game carnage including Gag Reflex, Rear Entry, [...]
Call Of Duty : Black Ops The Most-Played Game On Xbox Live In 2010
According to the latest stats released by Major Nelson, Call Of Duty: Black Ops was the most played game on Xbox Live in 2010. Call Of Duty : Black Ops became the most played XBL game after beating hardcore rivals like Red Dead Redemption, Halo : Reach , Mass Effect, etc. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero [...]
PS3 Sales Getting Close To Xbox 360 Sales
Sony’s PS3 has sold 6.7 million units in the last three months which sums the total PS3 sales to 47.9 million units, whereas its arch rival the Xbox 360 stands at 50 million units so far. Although the sales are 0.2% less than last year’s Q4, but it has still reached Sony’s sales predictions. Read more [...]
Epic Games: “Anything In The Apple World Is Perfect”
Epic vice president Jay Wilbur has said that “anything in the Apple world is perfect,” while noting that “hardware fragmentation” in the Android space is a “really big issue”. Read more here.
New Consoles In 2013? Crytek Says Yes
Because of Sony and Microsoft’s move into the motion controls market, analysts have said that we might not see the next set of video game consoles until 2014, but if you were to ask Crytek, the developer would give you a much sooner date than the aforesaid. That’s according to Crytek boss, Cevat Yerli, speaking [...]
EA Investors “Betting Against Old Republic”
EA investors are betting against big-budget MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, due to concerns spawned by the industry’s poor track-record at launching successful MMOs. Read more here.
PS3 Hacker Geohot Lawyers Move For Dismissal And Sony’s Response
The Geohot vs Sony case is still ongoing and more drama has unfolded for you. Sony has made allegations that GeoHot’s actually owns a PSN name known as “Geo1Hotz” (thereby violating PSN ToS), but Geohots lawyers disagree and are calling for a dismissal of case all together. Read more here.
Software Piracy Cost UK Industry £1.45B In 2010
UK interactive entertainment body UKIE has said that the domestic games industry lost at least £1.45 billion to software piracy last year. It estimates that for every original game sold at least one is pirated, effectively halving annual revenues. Read more here.
Pachter: Nintendo Has “Completely Blown It” With Wii 2 strategy
Wedbush Morgan analyst boss Michael Pachter has laid the boot into Nintendo in the wake of this week’s 3DS launch announcements, saying the Kyoto firm was missed its chance with a next-gen Wii. “With as much respect for Nintendo management as I can muster, I think Nintendo’s completely blown it with their second generation Wii [...]
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