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Ubisoft has reported sales of €600m for the three months ended December 31st, 2010. The publisher’s third quarter sales show a increase of 21.2 per cent when compared to €495m recorded during the same period last year. This exceeded initial forecasts of €520m. Sales for the first nine months of …

Almost 11 years on from its Japanese debut in March 2000, Sony’s PlayStation 2 has now passed 150m unit sales across the world. The number was hit on January 31st – ten years and 11 months after its debut. This cements the console’s position as the best selling gaming hardware …

Enslavd: Odyssey to the West should never have been released during the busy pre-Christmas season. That’s according to Namco Bandai’s marketing VP Charlson Choi, who told Siliconera that poor timing was to blame for the game’s disappointing sales of less than 500,000 units. It launched in the midst of a …

Video games sales in Australia have fallen year-on-year by 16 per cent. The figures were compiled by GfK Retail and Technology Australia and announced by the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association, which reported the Australian market generated total revenues of AUS $1.7 billion. Hardware took the biggest hit, with a …

Media firm Future has reported a significant increase in online ad revenue for the quarter ending December 31st 2010. Digital now accounts for 32 per cent of the company’s total ad revenue, which is up an impressive 25 per cent compared to the same quarter the year before. Future’s UK …

Take-Two has posted better than expected results for the fiscal quarter ending December 31st 2010, with net profit up seven per cent year-on-year to $40.8m. Net revenue for the period was down seven per cent at $334.3m – though this is ahead of the $300m prediction. Year-to-date revenue stands at …

Publisher Activision put no pressure on Treyarch to break the sales records shattered by Call of Duty: Black Ops’ predecessor Modern Warfare 2. Not that it stopped the game doing just that, of course. People don’t come by our offices and say ‘Hey, this game sold this many map packs, …

Sony’s new NGP handheld will comfortably better the successes of the PSP, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has stated. "EEDAR has no doubt that the NGP will be successful in Japan," he said in a report. "In Japan the PSP currently has the second largest active install base and is on …

The Pro Evolution Soccer series has sold roughly 69 million units worldwide. This achievement was revealed in Konami’s latest financial results, in which the publisher reported a decrease in the losses it had suffered across the board. The report highlighted PES 2011 as one of the company’s key sales drivers, …

Japanese publisher Namco Bandai has revered the Y11.7bn loss seen in the quarter ending December 31st 2009 by reporting a profit of Y3.7bn for the same quarter in 2010. For the nine months ending December 31st sales were up 1.8 per cent at Y288bn. Operating earnings were up 253 per …