Entries in 'users' (58)
150m now signed up to Club Penguin
Club Penguin, the in-browser virtual world custom-made for children, has registered its 150 millionth user, owning company Disney has said.
EA: We've redefined social games with The Sims
EA boasts that The Sims Social has redefined the Facebook games market.
PSN sales up following hack outage
The astonishing PlayStaion Network crisis that dominated the headlines earlier this year doesn’t seem to have dented the public appetite for PSN.
UKIE welcomes eBay ruling
Trade body UKIE has praised the news that eBay could be accountable for its users selling counterfeit goods.
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Rovio chases 1bn users
Angry Birds developer Rovio has set itself the goal of attracting 1bn fans as it plans to crack the Chinese market.
50m users for Moshi Monsters
Mind Candy has announced that its social networking title for children, Moshi Monsters, now boasts over 50m users worldwide.
Sony removes user data posted online
In a fresh blow for PSN's security worries, Sony has omitted over the weekend that it was forced to remove the details of some 2,500 PSN users that were posted ...
OPINION: Give 'em an inch
You are your own worst enemy. Well, probably not YOU. Obviously the vast majority of MCVuk.com readers are of sane mind and valiant heart. And will be rewarded in the ...
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PlayStation Home hits 19m downloads
Sony has announced that the number of PS3 owners who have downloaded and booted up PlayStation Home at least once has reached 19m.
Facebook has 290m gamers, says EA
Publishing giant Electronic Arts has indicated it will throw more weight behind the Facebook games platform.
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.
XBL has 12.5 Gold members
Microsoft has said that it currently has around 12.5m paying subscribers to Xbox Live. Subscriptions to the service currently cost £40 a year in the UK.
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XBL points to big Black Ops sales
We are yet to receive any firm sales numbers for Call of Duty: Black Ops from publisher Activision, but stats from Xbox Live suggests the game is well on track ...
150m users for Bigpoint
Bigpoint, the games portal site and developer, has reached 150m registered users, an expansion of fifty per cent on the 100m users it had in January of this year.
Steam hits 30m users
Valve’s digital games retail network Steam now has over 30m active accounts, the company has announced.
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?
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WoW welcomes 12 millionth user
Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that PC online RPG World of Warcraft now has over 12m registered players worldwide.
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.
PS3 sales ahead of expectations
Sony has stated that it’s on track to sell the 15m units it had forecast in the year ending March 2011 and that the machine is now selling at a ...
Does APB still have a future?
The administrator in charge of troubled Dundee developer Realtime Worlds have released some stats that it hopes will make MMO APB an appealing purchase for a would-be buyer.
Facebook targets one billionth user
Most publishers are still pondering exactly how they intend to tap into the Facebook market – well they had better get a move on, because if founder Mark Zuckerberg is ...
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 ...
3m play Battlefield Heroes
Publisher EA and Swedish developer DICE have announced that over 3m players have no signed up to the online free-to-play Battlefield Heroes.
MCV hits new online high
Online readership of leading UK games trade site MCV: The Market for Computer & Video Games has hit a new record high – bursting past 300,000 unique readers.
Sony targets iPhone fans with PSPgo
Sony will court iPhone users and gadget fans when the PSPgo hits retail next week.
