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Research firm says PC has seen 'the steepest decline ever in a single quarter'
Read More »Square Enix reveals extent of missed sales forecasts
Tomb Raider expected to shift up to six million units
Read More »The Japanese video games market actually GREW in the last 12 months
The Japanese video games market grew by 1.2 per cent year-on-year for the 12 months ending March 31st. No, that is not a typo. It’s the first annual growth the Japanese industry has reported in five years. Tech In Asia reports that the region’s games market hit $4.6bn in the …
Read More »Just how far short of expectations did Square Enix’s console games fall?
Outgoing Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has revealed the exact extent of the publisher’s console game sales disappointments. As revealed last month, Sleeping Dogs has sold 1.75m units, Hitman: Absolution 3.6m units and Tomb Raider 3.4m units. Let’s talk about Sleeping Dogs,” Wada said in a financial briefing as reported …
Read More »Minecraft PC passes 10m sales, Xbox 360 retail launch this month
Minecraft has surpassed 10m copies sold across PC, Mac, and Linux platforms. "Minecraft (PC) has hit 10M! As promised, a subtle hint on the main 1.6 feature…" Bergensten tweeted. Bergensten’s link was to a photo of a horse, indicating what would appear to be a new feature for the upcoming …
Read More »Develop Studio Sales Charts: March
The most bankable game studios in the world today, measured by retail sales data
Read More »One third of Vita games sold digitally; 100 titles coming to handheld this year
Sony has revealed that around a third of the games it sells on Vita are digital. Is that impressive? That’s a matter of opinion. Certainly it doesn’t sound anything special when the thousands of games that are downloaded everyday on iOS and Android are considered. But from a company transitioning …
Read More »Gears of War: Judgment is No.1 but sales down massively on GOW3
Microsoft’s Gears of War: Judgment has debuted at the top of the UKIE GfK All Formats Top 40… but the news isn’t all rosy. Its predecessor Gears of War 3 sold four times as many copies as its sequel achieved in its first week in the UK. There are factors …
Read More »Retail reports low interest in Wii Mini
The Wii Mini has attracted little interest at UK retail, one site has claimed. TechRadar reports that one of retailer GAME’s flagship” stores is not even stocking the machine, and when asked what the interest levels were like responded: "We’ve pretty much had nothing. None at all." Fellow retailer HMV …
Read More »StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm launch show attracts 1.1m viewers on Twitch
The world of eSports is once again demanding attention after Blizzard’s StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm attracted some impressive numbers. The game’s 21 hour launch broadcast from the Major League Gaming Pro Circuit Winter Championship on Twitch attracted over 1.1m viewers. Concurrent viewers hit a high of over 157k. …
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