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US sales tracker NPD has released its numbers for the US video games market in January 2011, and they show another period of year-on-year decline. Overall sales hit $1.16bn – a five per cent drop on January 2010. Software sales were down five per cent at $576m while hardware fell …
Read More »Music games hit new high in 2010
Forget the fall of Guitar Hero; the music video game sector is stronger than ever, says GfK Chart-Track. The sales tracker says that 2010 was the most successful year for music games in the UK, despite disappointing performances by the various Hero and Rock Band titles. Dance games drove the …
Read More »OPINION: The time to build a second Golden Age is now
Working with Alex Hope of Double Negative since July last year, I’ve had the privilege of leading the largest quantitative research study to date on skills in the video games industry and visual effects. We’ve conducted seven different research strands which covered children, parents, teachers, schools, colleges, universities, employers, employees …
Read More »Online games media records visitor boom
The readers of UK games magazines may be falling but there’s better news for the online brands. Eurogamer has seen unique visitors in November 2010 increase 15 per cent to 5,216,449. The firm has a daily average of 233,949 unique browsers and over 1m daily page impressions. The numbers are …
Read More »Full Move control for Portal 2
"Complete" PlayStation Move support has been guaranteed for the PS3 version of Portal 2. Chet Faliszek of developer Valve told the German PlayStation blog (as translated by Eurogamer) that the decision was taken as a form of "compensation" for the fact there was never a PS3 version of zombie multiplayer …
Read More »Sony: PS4 not even being deliberated
SCE boss Kaz Hirai says PS3 hasn't reached mid-cycle yet
Read More »Infernal Engine expands to 3DS
The scalable multiplatform engine to support Nintendoâ??s next handheld
Read More »Sony ‘not deliberating’ PS4
In keeping with Sony’s ethos of a ten-year life cycle for its home hardware, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai has claimed that Sony isn’t even strategising its next home console. "We’re not even at the halfway point [with PS3]," Hirai stated, as reported by Kotaku. "Every year, we reveal …
Read More »Dance on Broadway coming to PS3
Publisher Ubisoft has confirmed a PS3 version of dance hit Dance on Broadway. The game, which has previously been available only on Wii, will be compatible with Sony’s Move controller and will be released in the UK on March 18th. The disc will include 25 songs and choreographies from 20 …
Read More »THQ: Big three must change business model
Publisher THQ has urged the three biggest companies in control of the modern video games market to rethink the fundamentals of their content delivery strategies and embrace emerging platforms such as microtransactions. The comments come as THQ CEO Brian Farrell prepares to release the latest version of MX vs ATV. …
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