Entries in 'numbers' (65)
King.com now has 70m daily users
Cross-platform casual games company King.com has revealed some impressive numbers.
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut smashes Rising Star's pre-order records
Today’s release of Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut brings with it word of a very well deserved accomplishment for publisher Rising Star Games.
Tesco surprises city with blockbuster Christmas
The UK’s leading retailer Tesco has reported its strongest Christmas in the UK for three years.
App Store vitals: 40bn downloads, 500m active accounts
Apple's App Store has hit 40 billion downloads, less than a year after reaching 25bn downloads back in March. The announcement follows Flurry's study that showed 1.76bn Android and iOS ...
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Overall UK games market down 17.4% in 2012
The ERA has said that the UK video games market declined 17.4 per cent to £1.598bn in 2012.
iPhone 5 registers 2m pre-orders in one day
Apple has stated that it received over two million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in its first 24 hours of availability.
Gamescom celebrates trade success, announces 2013 dates
The organisers of Gamescom 2012 have hailed the event’s success, while confirming the date for next year’s European expo.
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UPDATED: 1,600 users - the story of OnLive's collapse starts to emerge
The truth about OnLive's demise will take time to emerge – but already a solid picture is being formed.
UPDATED: 3DS XL registers decent launch sales in UK and Japan
The launch of the 3DS XL is pivotal to the future fortunes of the Nintendo 3DS and early sales numbers for the handheld are encouraging.
UK games retail down 40% in June
2.1m games were sold at retail last month – a drop of more than 40 per cent compared with June 2011.
The Witcher franchise surpasses 4m units sold
The Witcher franchise has sold over 4m units across all platforms, developer CD Projekt Red has announced.
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EA says NPD stats "totally irrelevant"; NPD defends itself
“It's an irrelevant measure on the industry. It's totally irrelevant. We don't even really look at it internally anymore.”
Io: Only 20% of players will finish Hitman: Absolution
Developer Io Interactive predicts that just one in five players will finish the upcoming Hitman: Absolution.
E3 2012: OnLive claims "millions" of users, 100% uptime since launch
OnLive has claimed that it has “millions of subscribers worldwide”, but has once again decided not to reveal the number of gamers paying to use its service.
Draw Something user numbers nosedive
Mobile games sensation Draw Something has lost about five million daily active users in a single month, and is steadily dropping down the App Store charts on both iPhone and ...
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Slight decline in UK games store numbers
There are fewer stores than ever selling games, ERA and Chart-Track says.
Facebook gaming on the decline
Just one year ago it seemed that Facebook WAS gaming, but 12 months down the line and it looks as if playing games on the world’s leading social network is ...
Relaunched APB attracts 3m users in first week
In the first week since it officially relaunched, GamersFirst MMO title APB Reloaded has attracted 3m users.
1m gamers sign up for premium Call of Duty: Elite membership
Activision has announced that over 1m consumers paid up for the premium version of the Call of Duty: Elite service within its first six days of availability.
Minecraft by numbers
As part of the inaugural Minecon event at the weekend, developer Mojang has released a handful of impressive stats about the 4m+ selling Minecraft.
OnLive claims UK audience of 'millions'
THE UK launch of games streaming service OnLive reached ‘millions’ of users, says CEO Steve Perlman.
2m leave World of Warcraft in one year
The number of World of Warcraft subscribers has fallen from over 12m to 10.3m in one year.
EA's Origin draws 5m users
More than five million gamers use EA’s online download platform Origin every day, says the publisher’s COO Peter Moore.
