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As well as rapidly easing past the half-billion dollar revenue milestone just days after its global release earlier this month, Broadpoint AmTech analyst Ben Schachter has predicted that Activision could generate as much as $140m in revenue from its upcoming Modern Warfare 2 digital content. Furthermore, Infinity Ward’s community man …
Read More »UK CHARTS: MW2 locks down No.1
Despite seeing an 86 per cent week-on-week decline in sales, Activision’s might Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has succeeded in fending off the advancing forces of both Nintendo and Ubisoft to maintain its spot at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week. The full …
Read More »MW2 PC sales topple predecessor
Though some corners of the internet would have you believe that we were literally all about to die following Infinity Ward’s decision to drop dedicated multiplayer servers for the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the sales numbers paint a different story. Posting on the Infinity Ward …
Read More »Weekly UK video games market soars
This week’s UK software sales have skyrocketed 198 per cent to 103.1 million. It is comfortably the highest weekly figure of the year and isn’t far off 2008’s Christmas week, when 112.8 million went through UK games retailer’s tills. Unit sales also leapt up, rising 123 per cent to 3,422,625 …
Read More »MW2 dev costs put at $40-50m
Infinity Ward prised as much as $50 million from Activision’s budget to develop Modern Warfare 2, reports suggest. That figure is thought to be far less than Infinity Ward had initially been offered. The $40-50 million that Infinity Ward spent – a number quoted by anonymous sources in an LA …
Read More »Call of Duty inspires new retailers
modern warfare 2 has enticed yet more retailers into games, with petrol vendor BP the latest non-traditional chain to start selling triple-A product. The latest Call Of Duty was available at over 300 BP stations from midnight on November 10th. And now the firm wants to expand its range in …
Read More »MW2 sales pass $550m worldwide
It just can’t stop breaking records! Publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold-through a staggering $550m in its first five days on sale. The company believes that this is the best five-day launch in the history of entertainment – including video games, cinema and …
Read More »UK trade calls for open distribution
UK distributors have called upon the games industry to embrace open distribution in order to improve the sector. Several companies have claimed that an increase in competition and a greater focus on business skills would offer both distributors and retailers better protection against the effects the recession. Publishers need to …
Read More »Call of Duty: Zombies hits iPhone
Whilst triple-A release Modern Warfare 2 keeps itself busy by tearing up the record books in the traditional games industry, Activision has released yet another Call of Duty title – World at War: Zombies on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Priced at 5.99, the title in an extension of …
Read More »Modern Warfare spin-off on the way?
Considering the unparalleled success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Activision Blizzard would rightly be seen to be quite mad if they weren’t planning to take advantage – so talk of a possible series spin-off, whilst purely speculative, is also highly believable. Craig Fairbrass, the man who provides the …
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