Everybody Wants a Wii - December 2007 Video Game Sales Figures
The North American December sales figures are in and, well, it was a big month. Game companies saw a total revenue of $4.82 billion come their way last month, nicely capping off a $17.9 billion year. This marks the biggest year ever for the games industry - a 43% increase in sales over 2006’s [...]
How Big is PC Gaming In Asia?
Over the last year we’ve heard lots of buzz here in North America about competitive E-Sports with the emergence of CGS and the continued growth of MLG.
It is common knowledge however that anything the North American gaming scene has to offer pales in comparison to what is happening in Asia. A perfect example can [...]
Activision Blizzard’s CEO speaks
I ran across this interesting video of Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision (and now Activision Blizzard), talking about his thoughts on the general future trends of gaming. I found the bit about planted advertising in games an interesting discussion.
Canadians Forced to Cross Border Shop for Rock Band
As reported by Shack News at the first of the month the release of Harmonix’s Rock Band in Canada has been delayed until December 17th. Rumblings out of EA and MTV Games is that the delay is due to the need for billingual documentation and has nothing to do with a supply issue. If [...]
Guitar Hero III ROCKS THE WORLD - October Videogame Sales Figures
October’s NPD sales figures are in, and although it was only available for six of the thirty-one days that month, Guitar Hero III went and sold about 1.4 million units that month, across all platforms.
Halo 3 | XBOX 360 | 433.8K
Guitar Hero III w/Guitar | XBOX 360 | 383.2K
Guitar Hero III w/Guitar | Wii | [...]
Video: Top 10 PS3 Exclusives
This is just great. A year has passed since the Playstation 3 launched, so what better way to look back at all the great exclusives the console has? ScrewAttack has put together a video of the Top 10 PS3 exclusives, in their usual whacky fashion. Of course, most PS3 owners will know that there aren’t [...]
Download XBOX 1 games on Live Arcade - get one free XBLA game
Big news being reported by Gamasutra today - according to the site, Microsoft is about to start allowing XBOX 1 games to be sold on Live Arcade! Priced at 1200 points ($15 USD, $14 CAD), the games will become available on December 4. The first titles are going to be Halo, Psychonauts (for the [...]
