Entries in 'sold' (22)
THQ sells budget division ValuSoft
Budget software company Cosmi has acquired THQ’s value-centric publishing and distribution division ValuSoft.
Future sells New York office for £1.9m
The music-centred New York Music office of Future Publishing has been acquired by NewBay Media.
Uncharted 3 sells 3.8m units on day one
Sony has announced that Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception sold 3.8m copies worldwide on its first day of release.
Kesa sells Comet for £2
Coming shortly after news of Best Buy’s UK retreat, another big box out-of-town chain has found itself on the rocks.
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Play.com sold for £25m
Online entertainment retail giant Play.com has agreed to sell itself to Japanese company Rakuten.
Apple loses another iPhone prototype
Apple has reportedly once again lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, echoing the loss of an iPhone 4 prototype last year which was subsequently sold to gadget blog Gizmodo ...
Cryptic acquired for $50m
Atari’s has sold its Californian studio Cryptic for $50 million to China’s online gaming giant Perfect World, the company has said.
OpenFeint is sold
Mobile games network OpenFeint has been acquired for $104 million by Japanese games firm Gree.
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Blockbuster up for auction
US entertainment chain Blockbuster has reportedly agreed to sell itself to consortium Cobalt Video Holdco, though its future as a business remains very much open to speculation.
Move sales ‘on par’ with Kinect
Following the confirmation that Sony’s 4.1m ‘sales’ figure for Move released yesterday actually represents the number of units shipped to retail, analyst Michael Pachter has pegged actual sales numbers at ...
EA sells stake in Ubisoft
Bloomberg is reporting that American publishing giant EA has sold its 15 per cent stake in rival company Ubisoft, ending a sometimes uncomfortable business partnership that has lasted almost five ...
US: 5m Wii units sold this year
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has said that 5m Wii units have been sold this year so far.
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GoW III sold 1m in week one
We don’t know in what region and we don’t know the exact timeframe, but SCEA’s VP or marketing Peter Dille has stated that God of War III passed the 1m ...
US: FFXIII tops 1m sales
Having been on shelves for less than a week, Square Enix’s latest RPG epic Final Fantasy XIII has already passed the 1m sales barrier in the US.
Panasonic’s 3D TVs sell out
Big question marks hang over the ability of 3DTV to catch on amongst the world’s tech consumers, but initial signs from the US are promising.
MW2 sold 12m in 2009
As part of its all-encompassing detailed report on the global video game market in 2009, GfK-ChartTrack has confirmed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 12m units ...
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Buyout sets Pirate Bay on the road to legality
Whether or not the previous owners of Swedish file-sharing portal The Pirate Bay succeed in over-turning their prosecution in the increasingly protracted legal saga, it seems that The Pirate Bay ...
Six million sales and counting for Guild Wars
Korean publisher NCsoft has announced that its popular MMO PC series Guild Wars has passed the six million unit sales mark just days ahead of its fourth birthday on April ...
Killzone becomes 4th fastest selling Sony game
As well as claiming the top spot in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, Killzone 2 has become the fourth fastest selling Sony published title ever in ...
Two million copies of Street Fighter IV shipped
Following the UK release of next-gen fighter Street Fighter IV last Friday, Japanese games publisher Capcom has announced that it has shipped two million copies of the game worldwide, Edge ...
Cafe.com sells Boonty to Nexway
Casual games portal Boonty, which is owned by US-based Café.com, has been sold to French digital content firm Nexway for an undisclosed amount. Boonty co-founders Mathieu and Roman Nouzareth claim ...
US: Wii install base races ahead of 360
New stats from North American firm NPD and Deutsche Bank show that Nintendo’s Wii console has overturned the Xbox 360’s 12 month start on the marketplace to lead the installed ...
