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As part of its all-encompassing detailed report on the global video game market in 2009, GfK-ChartTrack has confirmed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 12m units worldwide last year. More precisely, the game’s total sales now stand at 11.86m units – or at least, they did …
Read More »Buyout sets Pirate Bay on the road to legality
Whether or not the previous owners of Swedish file-sharing portal The Pirate Bay succeed in over-turning their prosecution in the increasingly protracted legal saga, it seems that The Pirate Bay as we know it is no longer. Swedish software firm and internet caf network Global Gaming Factory X is reported …
Read More »Six million sales and counting for Guild Wars
Korean publisher NCsoft has announced that its popular MMO PC series Guild Wars has passed the six million unit sales mark just days ahead of its fourth birthday on April 28th. Unlike most traditional MMOs, Guild Wars if free-to-play, so whilst gamers have to pay for each expansion they do …
Read More »Killzone becomes 4th fastest selling Sony game
As well as claiming the top spot in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, Killzone 2 has become the fourth fastest selling Sony published title ever in the UK. It didn’t quite nab the PS3 crown, however, having to settle for second place the fastest selling stakes …
Read More »Two million copies of Street Fighter IV shipped
Following the UK release of next-gen fighter Street Fighter IV last Friday, Japanese games publisher Capcom has announced that it has shipped two million copies of the game worldwide, Edge reports. Its week one success in the UK will be revealed later today when GfK-ChartTrack announces the latest UK Charts. …
Read More »Cafe.com sells Boonty to Nexway
Casual games portal Boonty, which is owned by US-based Caf.com, has been sold to French digital content firm Nexway for an undisclosed amount. Boonty co-founders Mathieu and Roman Nouzareth claim that the sale will allow them to focus on their other social games site Caf.com. The news was exclusively revealed …
Read More »US: Wii install base races ahead of 360
New stats from North American firm NPD and Deutsche Bank show that Nintendo’s Wii console has overturned the Xbox 360’s 12 month start on the marketplace to lead the installed hardware race by nearly two million units. GameDaily reports that the Wii has now sold 13.4 million units in North …
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