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Sales of Apple’s iPad 2 came close to 1m units in the US over the tablet’s opening weekend, news agency Reuters is reporting. The original iPad took 28 days to hit that sales barrier upon its launch in April 2010. "Our field checks over the weekend indicate that the iPad …
Read More »Cut The Rope breaks App Store records
UK games publisher Chillingo has announced that its latest iOS title, Cut The Rope, has sold one million copies in ten days since launch. The company is claiming that the physics-based puzzler is thus the fastest selling title yet on Apple’s App Store. Cut The Rope has topped App Store …
Read More »DLC goes mainstream with £1m MW2 push
Activision put a mammoth marketing campaign behind the launch of Modern Warfare 2 DLC. 1m is being spent to promote the downloadable Stimulus Package, which adds a host of new multiplayer maps to the world’s fastest-selling game. The publisher has made the investment to spearhead a marketing campaign that targets …
Read More »Battlefield 1943 breaks XBLA records
Digital-only multiplayer shooter Battlefield 1943 has become the fastest game to 1m sales on Xbox Live, EA has confirmed. The reception of Battlefield 1943 continues to amaze us, even months after the game was released,” the game’s producer Gordon Van Dyke said in a statement. Being the fastest game to …
Read More »76 Wii games join 1m club
As part of its media frenzy at yesterday’s American press gathering, Nintendo has revealed that 76 Wii games have now sold in excess of 1m copies. Furthermore, of those games 22 are first party titles – meaning that 54 games released by third party publishers have now hit the impressive …
Read More »Sony spends big on Take That
Sony is to spend a whopping 1.5 million in the UK to ensure SingStar: Take That becomes the biggest karaoke game of the year, MCV can reveal. The title – which was released last Friday for PS3 and PS2 – will enjoy extensive TV, print and online advertising, supported by …
Read More »Spore Creature Creator hits 1m
The full blooded release of universe-sim Spore might still be over two months away, but the popularity of EA’s taster package Spore Creature Creator suggests that interest in the title is sky-high. In its first week on the market, gamers have used the package to create a whopping one million …
Read More »DS hits 1m in Australia
Nintendo DS has sold one million units in Australia after just 153 weeks on the market. According to Gfk figures released by Nintendo Australia, Wii also passed a milestone of 300,000 units after 58 weeks on sale. Vooks reports that the last reported figure for the Xbox 360 was also …
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