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The Xbox 360 Kinect campaign leads thethe top ten games and console TV campaigns of the year to date. The chart below represents the Top Ten games and consoles TV campaigns of 2012. The larger the bubble, the larger the campaign, in TVR terms. One TVR represents one per cent …
Read More »Five-Second Facts
Read and remember these stats so you can sound clever at the next Monday morning meeting. 3.5bnLoss reported by Sony for its financial year ending March 31stRead more $1bnEstimated revenues generated from overall game sales in the US during April, including retail sales, downloads, hardware, mobile games, rentals and moreRead …
Read More »Blizzard Entertainment skips E3 2012
World of Warcraft developer-publisher Blizzard will not have a floor presence at this year’s E3, a company rep has told MCV. This makes it’s the fifth consecutive year the company has bypassed the annual games trade show in Los Angeles. Additionally, Blizzard will not be holding one of its own …
Read More »GameStop sales fall but chain ‘outperforms market’
Same-store sales at US retailer GameStop dropped 12.5 per cent year-on-year. These include sales at stores which have been open for at least one year, and exclude revenue generated at newer shops. The games chain blamed the decline on a lower demand for new games, but said it had outperformed …
Read More »Dixons reports 3% like-for-like sales dip
Dixons Retail says its like-for-like sales fell three per cent for the 52 weeks ending April 28th, while overall sales remained flat. The group – which owns PC World, Currys, Dixons and other retail chains worldwide – ‘enjoyed good performances in the UK and Ireland and Northern Europe, trading ahead …
Read More »NPD says total US games market was over $1bn in April
The money generated from overall game sales in the US during April has been estimated at a whopping $1bn. This figure from The NPD Group includes sales of hardware, accessories, new and used physical games at retail, rentals, digital downloads, add-on content, subscriptions, mobile games and social network titles. It’s …
Read More »Revenue and income fall at Activision
Activision Blizzard has reported its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2012. The company’s total net revenue was $1.17bn for the period ending on March 31, 2012; a 23 per cent drop over the same period in 2011 ($1.44bn). Net income was down year over year as …
Read More »Resident Evil: Downfall rumoured for 3DS
A third Resident Evil 3DS game is believed to arrive later this year, dubbed Degeneration-Damnation-Downfall. The first two titles, Degeneration and Damnation, are apparently the names of in-game movies, while Downfall is said to be the title of the game itself. Nintendo World Report says the news came from an …
Read More »Dark Souls sells 1.19m units
RPG Dark Souls has sold 1.19m copies to become Namco Bandai’s most popular 2012 release across the US and Europe. The sales figure was revealed in the publisher’s financial report for its fiscal year ending March 2012. It reported a year-on-year profit increase of 20 per cent. Dark Souls was …
Read More »Namco Bandai profits rise 20%
Namco Bandai has generated gross profit of 1.3bn (167.5bn) for its financial year ending March 2012, but expects fewer games to arrive over the next 12 months. This represents a year-on-year increase of around 20 per cent. Meanwhile, net sales jumped 15 per cent to 3.5bn (454.2bn), and net income …
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