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US mega franchise Madden is unsurprisingly the biggest seller in the US last month. According to NPD, Over 1.8m copies of the American football title has been sold across PS3 and Xbox 360, a growth of almost six per cent compared to 2009. "Madden NFL 2011 once again made August …
Read More »NPD: US August sales slump 10%
The latest results from stats firm NPD show that the North American games market fell 10 per cent in August compared to the same month a year before. The entire games market for August dropped from $910.3 million in 2009 to $818.9 million this year. The biggest dip was for …
Read More »Whats out today? w/e Fri August 13th
CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S FULLY UPDATED, COMPREHENSIVE RELEASE SCHEDULE. A relatively quiet week sees a handful of new releases heading to retail this week, but the High Street can still expect custom from sports fans. The biggest release of the week is EA’s Madden NFL 11, promising a ‘simpler, quicker, …
Read More »NFL players sue EA
Around 6,000 retired NFL players have filed a class action lawsuit against EA over its use of their likenesses in the historic teams that featured in Madden NFL 09. According to a report on IGN, the lawsuit claims that publisher knowingly and intentionally” used the content in such a way …
Read More »EA goes digital with Madden
Publisher EA has announced Madden NFL Arcade – a cut-down version of its recently released retail product that will be made available on both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. The move follows the admission from EA boss John Riccitiello last month that it is discouraging that one of our …
Read More »EA: Madden sales discouraging
As the success of digital distribution services such as the iTunes App Store, Xbox Live and PSN continue to ask serious questions of the traditional console software sales model, EA boss john Riccitiello may just have hinted at a loss of appetitive for full-price console releases. This week, market research …
Read More »NPD: PS3 surges month-on-month
Whilst Nintendo continues to outsell all its opposition in the August hardware sales figures in North America, the biggest gains were enjoyed by the resurgent PS3, according to NPD’s August sales data. PS3 units sales were up an impressive 72 per cent over July, though Nintendo still emerged the clear …
Read More »John Madden announces retirement
Legendary US sports broadcaster John Madden has announced that he is to retire from TV commentating, but publisher EA has insisted that it doesn’t mean the end of their long-running relationship between Madden and its NFL games franchise. As you can imagine, we’ve had dozens of questions today about what …
Read More »PSP: Rock Band also on the way
As if the sudden announcement of LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm, Assassin’s Creed and a new Buzz for PSP was not enough, it has also been confirmed that EA’s Rock Band is on its way to the machine, too. Dubbed Rock Band Unplugged, it’s the first portable version of the popular musical instrument …
Read More »US: Wii Play tops 08 best sellers
New NPD figures show that Wii Play was been confirmed as the best selling multi-SKU game of 2008 in the US. The figures confirm that Nintendo’s 2006 mini-game collection outsold all other games during 2008, with 5.28 million units sold, MTV reports. Nintendo also secured the No.4 position, with Mario …
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