EA announced today that Will Wright’s Spore has sold one million copies worldwide, across PC and Nintendo DS, since its September 7th release. According to NPD data posted at GamesIndustry.biz, the PC version of has also been crowned king of the hill in US software sales, sitting atop a stack of other EA titles and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
In some ways, it’s really a shame that Microsoft decided to cut the price of the Xbox 360 in Japan last week– because if they hadn’t, we could say with some degree of certainty that Microsoft’s strategic RPG initative is working wonders for the system’s traditionally stagnant Japanese sales. According to numbers compiled by Enterbrain (via [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
In their latest salvo against PC gaming naysayers and those who believe DRM is the answer to the format’s piracy woes, publisher Stardock has today released a PC-centric “Gamer’s Bill of Rights,” a set of ten rules by which they believe all PC game publishers should abide. While some might argue that the document is [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 21, 2008
Any individual gamer may or may not have care how many units of Tales of Vesperia flew off store shelves in Japan last week — but as a whole we gamers sure do love our statistics. And whether gathering ammunition for the “console wars,’ reveling in the fact that that their favorite medium sold better [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
Looking at previous generations of video game hardware, there have regularly been big winners and big losers in what are dubbed the “console wars.” PS1 trounced the Dreamcast and N64. PS2 continues to thrive even as Xbox and GameCube lie all-but-forgotten. Nintendo’s Game Boys have historically driven all competitors out of business. But in this [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Not so long ago, Jesse and I put on our thinking caps, pulled out our BFGs and assumed our best fake lawyer poses — before engaging in a heated debate over whether the technology-laden Apple iPhone would give the incumbent Nintendo DS and Sony PSP a run for their money. In that duel, I represented [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 30, 2008
It would appear that we, as a society, are right to worry about the gaming behemoth seizing our children and overtaking society: We seem to be spending more money on games than ever before. In a press release issued this morning, market research firm DFC Intelligence made another optimistic proclamation about the health and future [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 29, 2008
Back in March, we decried the way percentile ranking sites like Metacritic have permeated gaming culture, explained that we might be better off reading review text rather than paying attention to a suspicious scoring system, and suggested that gamers “just leave Metacritic to the suits” who use such digits to appeal to investors. But the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 15, 2008
The April NPD numbers are here, and once again the gaming industry performs as if recession meant every American had $600 burning a hole in their pocket and only games to spend it on. With multiple Guinness World Records in its honor, even with only five days worth of sales there was no question whatsoever [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
This morning, the Associated Press reported that Activision’s stock today hit an all-time high of $30.15 and was trading at $29.71 at the time of publication, a 7.3 percent increase. But you might not want to write down that all-time high quite yet — ATVI just closed at $31.39. Why the sudden jump? Perhaps because [...]
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