Entries in 'growth' (76)
NPD: October down 4% year-on-year
American sales tracker NPD has announced that the US video games market was worth $1.07bn in October 2010 – that’s four per cent down on the same month in 2009.
Steam hits 30m users
Valve’s digital games retail network Steam now has over 30m active accounts, the company has announced.
Pre-owned goes mainstream
Publishers hate it, but punters love it – and now it’s official: pre-owned is everywhere.
Facebook has 200m active gamers
Internet powerhouse and social networking leader Facebook has outlined a range of initiatives that it hopes will arrest the slowdown of gaming growth on the website.
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Games growth outpaces US economy
Though the global games market is having to face up to some tough times at the moment, a new report from the Entertainment Software Association has outlined the true extent ...
BBC: We’ll be catalyst for growth
The BBC believes it can revolutionise the games market with Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.
More growth to come for disc-based media
These are nervous times for bricks and mortar retailers, but despite the continued growth of digital games retail, EA believes that there is still room for growth in the boxed ...
Wii iPlayer usage on the up
The Nintendo Wii enjoyed an increase in iPlayer use in February and now accounts for four per cent of the service’s total usage.
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Games software worth $64.9bn by 2013
The total value of the global video games software market will reach $64.9bn by 2013 – a jump of approximately 28 per cent on its current value – according to ...
Further decline in UK economy
The British economy contracted by 0.8 per cent in the last quarter – more than double the figure predicted by analysts.
Nintendo: Market could grow by 50%
Speaking at the CGA’s ongoing Casual Connect event in Seattle, Nintendo of America’s senior director of product development Tom Prata has predicted that despite the recent boom in the target ...
US: Casual up, consoles down
New data from metrix specialist comScore has shown that the number of people playing online casual games in the US was up by 22 per cent annually in May – ...
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Blu-ray and DVD sales down
The global market for both Blu-ray and DVD discs dropped by 4.8 per cent to $482m in 2008, with analyst Screen Digest blaming both the worldwide recession and online piracy ...
UK retail sees 0.7% Q1 decline
The UK High Street suffered a like-for-like sales decline of 0.7 per cent in Q1 and 1.2 per cent in March, the latest figures from the British retail Consortium reveal.
AUSTRALIA: Market jumps 47.8% in 2008
New data from market research body OzToys has claimed that the Australian video games market grew by an impressive 47.8 per cent year-on-year in 2008, hitting a total value of ...
NPD: Nintendo “continues to expand the market”
Nintendo remained seemingly untouchable in January according to the latest NPD stats, and has claimed that the growth seen in both the Wii and DS market is helping the overall ...
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NPD: January market sees 13% growth
The latest results from stats firm NPD show that the North American video game market grew 13 per cent in January compared to the same month the year before to ...
January retail figures give “room for optimism”
The retail figures for January are in and paint a mixed picture, with the good news of an overall like-for-like increase of 1.1 per cent in sales muddied by news ...
UK games market to overtake Japan in ‘09
With the Japanese market suffering a significant decline in value in 2008 and the UK enjoying record sales, MCV is predicting that the UK games market will by the end ...
CANADA: Annual games market soars
Following last week’s news that the North American video games market grew by 19 per cent to hit $21.33bn last year, NPD figures have also shown that the Canadian industry ...
NPD: Games industry “already being affected by the recession”
The latest stats from NPD show that 2008 was a record year for the video games industry in North America – but signs that the worsening global economic climate is ...
"Mind blowing" growth for Xbox Live
Microsoft’s group product manager for Xbox 360 Aaron Greenberg has stated that the strong sales enjoyed by his firm’s console over the Christmas period has been mirrored by some equally ...
NPD: Sales growth continues for PS3
Sony has revealed that its’ year-to-date sales of its PS3 hardware are currently up an impressive 60 per cent on 2007’s numbers, and its November performance, which saw over a ...
US: Monthly growth slows amid credit crunch concerns
Amid a global climate of credit meltdowns and consumer struggles, the US games market continued to grow in August, but its rate of growth has dropped to its lowest in ...
UBIDAYS '08: There’s more growth to come
Following an exciting couple of days for French publisher Ubisoft, chief executive Yves Guillemot has told Reuters that he sees continued growth in the games market for at least another ...
