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Creative director Alex Ward details technical features that didn’t make the cut due to compact development team
Read More »Dangerous Golf has yet to hit sales expectations
Three Fields Entertainment has admitted that its recent debut release Dangerous Golf hasn’t yet sold in the numbers it was hoping. The game arrived on PC consoles on PC on June 2nd and very much divided critics. On PS4, for instance, the game has a Metacritic score of 56 per …
Read More »Pokémon Go boosts Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire sales
The massive success of Pokmon Go has caused the sales of two older Pokmon games to rise by over 140 per cent. In this week’s full price charts, Pokmon Alpha Sapphire made it to No.33, with sales up by 145 per cent week-on-week, and Pokmon Omega Ruby took the No.36 …
Read More »NPD adds data for digital games to its sales figures
Major publishers including EA, Activision and Ubisoft sign up to service, but platform holders Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo remain untracked for now
Read More »Someone at Nintendo predicted 100m unit sales for Wii U
To date Nintendo’s Wii U has sold 12.8m units since its release in 2012. It turns out that’s way, way less than at least one Nintendo executive predicted. In an internal sales representative meeting, someone projected that we would sell close to 100 million Wii U systems worldwide. The thinking …
Read More »Paradox requests takedown of all game stats from Steam Spy
Creator complies, responding: ‘I firmly believe Steam Spy should be seen as a useful tool by developers, not as a threat'
Read More »Rocket League has made $110m
Car-football title Rocket League continues to be a smash hit for developer Psyonix. Speaking to Forbes, the studio’s VP of comms Jeremy Dunham aid that the game has raked in an impressive $110m in sales. That does not count the times it was downloaded on PlayStation Plus on its launch. …
Read More »Total War: Warhammer breaks series records
Creative Assembly’s latest strategy release has broken a Total War sales record. Total War: Warhammer, published by Sega, has since its release earlier this week racked up sales of over half a million units, making it the fastest ever selling title in the franchise. Total War: Warhammer has already proven …
Read More »Sony reckons it can sell 20m PS4s this financial year
PS4 exceeded even Sony’s own expectations last year, but the platform holder has predicted that the machine will do even better next year. 17.7m PS4s were sold in Sony’s last financial year, ahead of the 17.5m it had forecast. Now the company has said that PS4 will shift a further …
Read More »Week one sales of Uncharted 4 reach 2.7m worldwide
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End looks on track to be a fitting commercial send off for the series. Sony has said that combined physical Blu-ray and digital sell-through of the game worldwide since its launch last week has hit 2.7m units. The game is the fastest selling first party PS4 …
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