Entries in 'numbers' (65)
Team Fortress enjoys user boost
Counter-Strike’s deeply-embedded position as the most played Steam game has finally been dismantled, following a daring and controversial change in pricing policy from Valve.
WoW subscription numbers dip
Though the 11.4m subscribers to Blizzard's world-conquering MMO World of Warcraft make for some impressive reading, it actually represents nearly a three year low for the game.
CityVille shatters Facebook records
Having been on the market for just over a month, Zynga's latest Facebook title CityVille has already attracted an astonishing 84.2m players.
UK says no to 3D TV this Christmas
Any hopes of 3D TV being high on consumer’s Christmas wish lists this year appear to have vanished as a new survey suggests that the appetite for the technology in ...
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How popular is Game Center?
Apple launched its Game Center connected gaming community for iPhone and iPod touch in early September, as part of its iOS 4.1 software. So how's it doing?
Kinect sells out at Amazon, Play
Following news yesterday that GAME has already sold out of its initial Kinect stock allocation and cannot guarantee day one delivery for new pre-orders, two other major UK retailers have ...
Move ‘off to a good start’
Sony has not released any sales data for the recently launched PlayStation Move, but one analyst reckons that everything’s got off to a good start on the far side of ...
Zynga's scope, size and power
Speaking at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference today, Zynga's CTO Cadir Lee has revealed a number of stats and details which show what an impressive infrastructure and vast operation it runs.
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Modern Warfare 2 still rules Xbox Live
The long awaited release of Halo Reach last week was the biggest games event of 2010 – but 2009’s gaming champ isn’t much impressed.
Microsoft cheers Sky Player success
With plenty of noise being made about the rampant success of the BBC iPlayer on the PS3 and Wii, Microsoft has taken time to point out that its own ...
Fewer people playing Facebook games
Facebook has lost a substantial amount of its game users since altering its notification system, with FarmVille alone recording a dip of 4.4 million players.
EA takes March crown – monthly charts in full
The value of the UK games software market fell in March by seven per cent year-on-year. But it was still a great month of major releases, while EA and Square ...
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CVG posts record audience growth
Over 2m gamers visited Future’s CVG.co.uk last month, a year-on-year rise of 68 per cent.
Piracy accounts for dropping DS sales
Measuring the true scale of the impact of software piracy is a tough task, but Nintendo has said that illicit copying of DS titles is to blame for a near ...
JAPAN: PlayStation takes control
After several weeks undisturbed at the top of the Japanese hardware charts, Sony’s PSP has finally been toppled – by none other than the PS3.
Home is a “sticky experience”
Despite widespread scepticism concerning Sony’s virtual world Home, the service continues to track record user levels and is making a profit for the platform holder, PSN boss Peter Dille has ...
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Steam membership jumps 25% in ‘09
Valve’s popular digital distribution network Steam now has over 25m members, the Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead developer and thriving distribution platform owner has revealed.
Online retail explodes over Xmas
The Christmas break may be a time to focus on family and loved ones, but it now seems that it has become the prime opportunity for online shopping – and ...
UK December charts in full
Modern Warfare 2 may have been the biggest game of December, but publisher Activision still slipped behind Nintendo, EA and Ubisoft in terms of software units sold in the ELSPA ...
iPlayer console use surges
The BBC has revealed that one in eight people logging onto its popular IPTV service iPlayer are now doing so through either the PS3 or Wii, with console usage jumping ...
NPD: Wii and DS back on top
The good times are back at Nintendo with the platform holder expressing its delight at smashing two hardware records in NPD’s December and 2009 North American video games market report.
US: 52% of PSP owners are female
We hear lots about the success Nintendo has enjoyed in the emerging casual games sector, but new statistics about the North American PSP audience suggest that Sony has achieved great ...
JAPAN: Further year-on-year decline
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has claimed that 2009 was yet again a year of decline for the video games industry in Japan with both hardware and software sales suffering year-on-year decreases.
VidZone downloads pass 2m
Hit music video streaming service VidZone has seen its PS3 client downloaded over 2m times, VidZone Digital Media has confirmed.
MW2 most pirated game of ‘09
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the most pirated game of 2009 according to BitTorrent tracking statistics, Gamasutra reports.
