Entries in ‘global’ (27)
News: Nickelodeon buys TMNT rights
New animated series and movies on the way, but will Ubisoft retain the video game rights?
News: Nintendo topples Mattel in toy market
Wii and DS platform holder is now the leading force in the worldwide toy and games market
News: 505 prepares first worldwide release
IL-2 Sturmovik becomes publisher's first title to arrive on both sides of the Atlantic simultaneously
News: The Sims 3 sales hit 3.7m
Popular casual life sim proves the most lucrative title in EA’s last quarter
News: Red Faction: Guerrilla sells 1m
Whilst UFC 2009’s success sees the fighting genre newcomer becoming an annual franchise
News: PC downloads worth $1bn in 2009
DEVELOP’09: And market for digital was $600m last year says GfK ChartTrack
News: Buyout sets Pirate Bay on the road to legality
Internet café firm Global Gaming Factory X pays $7.8m for controversial BitTorrent service
News: Blu-ray and DVD sales down
Screen Digest says consumers are confused at the number of options available on the market
News: Call of Duty sales pass 35m
Activision Blizzard also confirms a 2009 release date for StarCraft II
News: Game Boy Advance far from dead
Nintendo’s ‘obsolete’ machine sold 420,000 units in 2008 in developing markets
News: 41% of all PC software is pirated
Business Software Alliance claims market lost $53bn to illegal installations in 2008
News: Lifetime Final Fantasy sales hit 85m units
Square Enix reveals global sales figures for its three biggest RPG franchises
News: Devil May Cry series tops 10m
Capcom’s energetic action series passes new global shipped unit landmark
News: 83 DS titles pass a million units
And seven more top 10m sales; total DS hardware sales pass 100m worldwide
News: DS on track for 100m sales this month
Japanese newspaper says key sales barrier will be passed in March
News: Blu-ray approaching 100m disc sales
Research claims that HD disc format is moving from “early adopter” to “early majority” phase
News: EA: FIFA 09 sells 7.8m units
Rock Band 2, Left 4 Dead, Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space all top a million but Need for Speed suffers annual loss
News: Iwata: DS could sell 150m
Nintendo boss predicts that revolutionary handheld has a long way to go yet
News: Games overtake films in global entertainment market
Market research claims that games accounted for 53 per cent of global packaged media sales in 2008
News: Guitar Hero III sales pass $1bn
Activision CEO Mike Griffith claims music title is the is the first to reach financial milestone
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