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The Kinect version of Halfbrick’s popular game Fruit Ninja has been downloaded 1 million times via Xbox Live Arcade. The figure comes less than a year after the game’s XBLA launch in August 2011. "Hitting 1 million downloads for XBLA is an awesome achievement," said Phil Larsen, chief marketing officer …
Read More »Free South Park episode for Vita owners
Sony has placed a free episode of American cartoon series South Park on the PlayStation store for Vita owners. Currently the 12th, 13th and 14th seasons of the TV series can be downloaded to Sony’s machine, with the first episode of the 12th series (found under the South Park Uncensored …
Read More »UPDATED: Vita game downloads – complete UK price list
Sony has at last released the complete UK digital launch line-up for PlayStation Vita and, interestingly, Sony has chosen not to mirror its overseas strategy and has priced the digital games at the same RRP they will carry on the High Street. The most expensive game is EA’s FIFA Football, …
Read More »Sony names two free Vita Discovery apps
With the UK launch of PlayStation Vita rapidly approaching, Sony has announced details of two free games for the device. Arriving under the ‘Discovery Apps’ promotion, both Frobisher Says and T@g will be made available as free downloads for the device. The first title is a surreal mini-game collection not …
Read More »Adele demolishes Call of Duty as 2011’s biggest entertainment property
Singing sensation Adele sold over 1m more copies of her latest album than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The FPS loses its crown as the UK’s biggest entertainment property in terms of units sold, although it remains No.1 in value. Call of Duty topped the same list in both …
Read More »11m downloads a day from Nokia Store
While Nokia has been struggling to do battle against the likes of Apple and Android devices in developed markets, it’s Symbian OS has continued a stronghold over emerging markets. The Finnish manufacturer has released a number of stats and trends. One of which shows that its Nokia Store is now …
Read More »Angry Birds scores 6.5m Xmas downloads
Rovio’s world-conquering casual games phenomenon Angry Birds was downloaded an amazing 6.5m times on Christmas day alone. Estimates suggest that this number is very close to the total number of smartphone activations over Christmas. The number represents downloads of all three Angry Birds titles (Angry Birds, Seasons and Rio). We’re …
Read More »Xmas day app downloads hit 242m
Research from Flurry confirmed that Christmas 2011 was dominated by smartphones and tablets, with the result that 242m apps were downloaded on the big day and 1.2bn across the holiday week of December 25th-31st. It’s the first time app downloads have passed 1bn in a week, said Flurry. By comparison …
Read More »100m downloads and counting for Mac App Store
Over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store since its launch in January earlier this year. The milestone for the Mac store comes after the huge success of the App Store for iOS, which currently has more than 500,000 uploaded apps and has seen more than …
Read More »Mac App Store tops 100 million downloads
Storefront meets milestone less than a year after launch
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