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There are more UK consumers playing social games online than ever before, but how are they spending their money? With the help of PopCap Games and other industry experts, MCV investigates… The number of social gamers who purchased in-game currency with real-life money doubled year-on-year. This is partly due to …
Read More »Web stat unity ‘will not be easy’
The UK games media says it must stop confusing advertisers and agree on an industry standard for measuring web traffic. But there is much to be done before this complicated situation can be resolved. Currently the games media uses multiple web traffic monitors – such as ABCe, Google Analytics and …
Read More »Only 6% of console owners download games
A new report from American stats body NPD has thrown more doubt over the current market importance of digital games retail – specifically in the console market. NPD reports that in a three-month period just six per cent of console owners downloaded content to their console. On PC and Mac …
Read More »Zynga’s scope, size and power
Speaking at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference today, Zynga’s CTO Cadir Lee has revealed a number of stats and details which show what an impressive infrastructure and vast operation it runs. The numbers include:* 10 PER CENT of the world’s internet population has played a Zynga game* 215 MLLION monthly users* Zynga’s …
Read More »Piracy accounts for dropping DS sales
Measuring the true scale of the impact of software piracy is a tough task, but Nintendo has said that illicit copying of DS titles is to blame for a near 50 per cent drop in DS games sales in Europe over recent months. Asahi.com quotes the platform holder as stating …
Read More »US: 52% of PSP owners are female
We hear lots about the success Nintendo has enjoyed in the emerging casual games sector, but new statistics about the North American PSP audience suggest that Sony has achieved great things in the female sector. Edge reports that 52 per cent of US PSP owners are female. This compares to …
Read More »VidZone downloads pass 2m
Hit music video streaming service VidZone has seen its PS3 client downloaded over 2m times, VidZone Digital Media has confirmed. In addition, the service has now delivered over 200m videos to its many users spread across 18 countries. There’s more information on this story over on CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »MW2 most pirated game of 09
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the most pirated game of 2009 according to BitTorrent tracking statistics, Gamasutra reports. Of those downloads 4.1m were of the PC version whilst 970k were of the Xbox 360 version. The PS3 remains piracy free for the time being. An interesting thought to …
Read More »EEDAR and Nielsen combine to offer invaluable game data
Stat tracking specialist Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has teamed up with Nielsen to provide improved data to its list of clients. The deal will see Nielsen’s consumer survey information and marketing spend info added to EEDAR’s GamePulse service, which is a web-based research application for publishers, developers and …
Read More »GfK-ChartTrack: We want digital chart this year
Sales monitor GfK-ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it hopes to set up a chart of UK digital downloads by the end of this year. The company said it was in ‘active discussions’ with a number of leading providers of downloadable digital content with a view to inking a deal …
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