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South Park: The Stick of Truth has emerged the victor for Steam’s latest weekly sales chart, beating out DayZ and Banished for the top spot. Ubisoft’s RPG based on the long-running cartoon benefited from its launch last week, but had been a list regular for the past month or two …
Read More »PopCap senior manager Bilas joins GameAnalytics
Denmark-based company GameAnalytics has announced the appointment of PopCap’s Allison Bilas as its new vice president of product. Bilas joined PopCap in 2010 as a social games business analyst, later rising to become senior manager of the studio’s game analytics department. She’s credited for several titles, including Bejeweled Blitz and …
Read More »Happy New Year: January in numbers
January is always a quiet time of the year – this year more so than normal with only a handful of new releases. That didn’t stop a reasonable sum of money being generated by software. 58.5m was made through game sales, which is an impressive 24 per cent rise over …
Read More »Kickstarter pledges pass $1 billion
The total amount of money pledged on Kickstarter since its inception on April 28th 2009 has now passed $1bn. On its first day 40 people pledged $1,084 to seven projects. By September 2011 total pledges had reached $98,637,926. The booming popularity of the service means that over half of its …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: February 23 – March 1
Banished has once again topped Steam’s best sellers chart, besting DayZ for the second week in a row. The city-building strategy game fished ahead of Bohemia’s Early Access hit, with the new Thief title finishing right behind in third. South Park: The Stick of Truth rose to fourth ahead of …
Read More »One third of one day’s new iOS games were Flappy Bird clones
Welcome to the world of mobile gaming. A stunning report in The Guardian has revealed that of the 300 new iOS games that were released on the App Store yesterday, 95 were Flappy Bird clones. These include the likes of Tappy Bieber, Flappy Penguin – Revenge, Flappy Monsters, Tappy Duck, …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: February 16-22
DayZ has been temporarily knocked off the top spot of Steam’s top sellers chart, as city-builder Banished outsold it during the past week. Shining Rock’s strategy game released last Tuesday – fairly early in the sales tracking period – so next week we’ll see what kind of staying power it …
Read More »16% of US gamers have dropped physical games completely
A new report from NPD suggests that only a limited number of US gamers have made the decision to completely abandon physical games. VG247 has word from NPD’s Exploring Digital Gaming report which claims that 16 per cent of US gamers say that they now buy all their games digitally. …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: February 9-15
It’s DayZ and Rust’s world, we’re just living in it. The Steam Early Access titans continue to be unmovable from their peak on Valve’s weekly top sellers chart. In fact, it’s getting hard to remember a time when the pair didn’t just automatically fill up thetop two spots. Fellow Early …
Read More »NPD: US spent $15.39bn on games in 2013
NPD has revealed new US sales figures for games in 2013 – and this time around, the research group has included digital revenue and second-hand sales in their findings. Following its 2013 US retail report – which showed a 2 per cent year-over-year decline in industry sales – NPD has …
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