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DayZ is more than just another zombie game. There are no objective markers and scores don’t matter: it’s all about survival. There is no price tag, beyond the cost of DayZ’s 2009 parent game Arma II. And there is no stopping it. While Dead Island and Resident Evil sales tail …
Read More »Apple becomes the richest company ever… while Facebook hits new low
Perhaps this puts a true perspective on the global importance of the smartphone and tablet market. Having more or less singlehandedly revolutionised not only the smartphone market but also the tablet sector, Apple has grown to become the most valuable company that has ever existed. At the end of trading …
Read More »Smartphone gaming is "the biggest content revolution we’ve ever seen"
The handheld video games market is being killed off by the smartphone sector, metrics firm Flurry Analytics believes. It claims that in 2009 the iOS and Android games software market accounted for 19 per cent of the total $2.7bn handheld and mobile games market in the US. In 2001 it …
Read More »HMV: Diablo III our biggest ever product launch
The Diablo III launch event at HMV Oxford Street was the retailer’s biggest to date, says games boss Ewan Pinder. He estimates at least 1,000 fans queued up at the High Street chain’s flagship London store last night to purchase the game first. It went on sale at 11pm with …
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 »Max Payne 3 is Rockstar’s biggest launch ever
Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 will explode at retail this summer, supported by the publisher’s biggest UK campaign to date. Marketing efforts will be centred around the release of the Xbox 360 and PS3 SKUs on May 18th, targeting both fans of the shooter series and a wider audience of action …
Read More »Amazon is the UK’s No.1 entertainment retailer
New numbers from Kantar Worldpanel suggest that Amazon overtook HMV in the three months ending December 25th to become the UK’s biggest entertainment retailer for the first time. Amazon grew its market share from 19.4 per cent to 22.4 per cent throughout the period while HMV’s share slipped 2.1 per …
Read More »Guillemot: Next Assassin’s Creed will be ‘biggest to date’
This year’s new Assassin’s Creed will be the biggest game in the series so far, Ubisoft told MCV. It is understood that it will inject new life into the series, featuring fresh lead characters for the first time since 2009. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has high hopes for this Christmas’ …
Read More »UK CHARTS: MW3 is No.1; Biggest UK week ever; Falls short of Black Ops
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has assumed its pre-determined position at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It helped the UK games sector to its biggest weekly return ever, making 120.8m, beating previous record holder Week 45 in 2010. MW3 revenue for the …
Read More »And the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer is… not Apple!
Samsung has become the largest manufacturer of smartphones on the planet. Shipments in the last quarter grew 44 per cent to give it 23.8 per cent of the market.The firm sold 27.8 million units in Q3, up nearly four times from a year ago, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.That …
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