Entries in 'december' (24)
NPD December: Xbox 360, Black Ops 2 top another lackluster month
The NPD has provided its December 2012 report for US retail, as well as a general overview for 2012, and to no one's surprise the numbers show the same old ...
Retail narrowly avoids Christmas drop, grows 0.3% YOY
UK retail sales values were up ever so slightly by 0.3 per cent year-on-year fro December.
Wii was best selling European home console in December
Think the Wii is dead in the market? Think again.
360 dash app usage rises 50%
The amount of consumers using entertainment apps on Xbox Live globally increased by 50 per cent from November to December.
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2011 US games market down 8% leaving UK as worst performer
NPD has confirmed that the US video games market declines eight per cent year-on-year to $17.02bn in 2011.
Retail enjoys "dazzling" December
It might not feel like it on the High Street right now, but the British Retail Consortium has said UK retail enjoyed a “dazzling” December.
PS Vita launch shipments upped
Retailers in Japan will receive 200,000 more units of PlayStation Vita in time for launch, bringing the total shipped to 700,000.
Software Sales Monitor: UK market rises to £68.3m
Retail discounting Skyrim helped the UK games retail market generate a whopping £68.3m last week – a ten per cent rise over the week prior’s £62.2m.
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GTA III gets release date on iOS and Android
In October, developer Rockstar Games revealed GTA III was in development to celebrate the tenth anniversary since the original release, and would arrive later in the "fall".
Star Wars: The Old Republic
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If anything can challenge World of Warcraft, it’s this. The Old Republic represents EA’s biggest foray into the market for massively multiplayer online games.
Retail suffers winter blues
The UK games software market plunged 11.8 per cent in December, according to GfK Chart-Track.
US: MS claims Xbox 360 sell-out
Microsoft's community voice Larry 'Major Nelson' Hyrb has claimed that the platform holder had such a successful Christmas in America that it actually ran our of hardware by the end ...
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Microsoft clarifies NPD claims
Platform holder Microsoft has clarified a statement that it released earlier today that appeared to claim that Xbox 360 sold 10m units in the US in 2009 – a number ...
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 ...
NPD: ’09 “a turning point” for PS3
PS3’s 1.35m unit sales in North America in December – an 87 per cent year-on-year increase – saw the console finish 2009 by enjoying its best ever month in territory, ...
NPD: Hardware sales records tumble
After what may well be looked upon as a troubled year by its own standards, Nintendo has emerged from 2009 buoyant thanks to news of record-breaking performances from the Wii ...
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US: Record month for PSN
SCEA’s communicatiosn director Patrick Seybold has stated that in December Sony’s PlayStation Network enjoyed its “single highest revenue month” in North America.
Iwata: Wii has recovered from slowdown
Having confessed his concern about the health of the Wii in the latter stages of 2009, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has now told Reuters that has machine has recovered from ...
UK games market climbs again
Sales for the UK video games software market grew by 13 per cent this week to 3.4 million units, driving the sector’s value up by 11 per cent to £77.3 ...
NPD: Record December lead by blistering Nintendo hardware sales
The North American games market enjoyed a record month in December, with monthly overall revenue hitting $5.1bn – the first time any single month in the region has passed the ...
UK economy suffering “frightening deterioration”
A survey conducted by The British Chambers of Commerce have found that the nations’ economy is in the midst of a “frightening deterioration”, with December’s High Street numbers proving the ...
Early December High Street stats positive
The latest UK High Street statistics from Synovate Retail Performance show that the number of non-food shopping trips made between November 30th and December 6th climbed by 10.1 per cent ...
Microsoft announces XBL Deals of the Week
Microsoft’s online mouthpiece Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb has announced that the firm is to discount one item per week on its Xbox Live Marketplace throughout the month of December.
VAT cut can’t stop poor December at retail
“Retailers will need to use every tactic at their disposal” – that’s the message from a leading High Street analyst today as it predicts a gloomy December at retail despite ...
