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Microsoft told All Things Digital that more than two million Windows Phone 7 smartphones had shipped to mobile carriers. "We’re still in the early stages," Microsoft Windows Phone 7 product manager Greg Sullivan told All Things Digital in an interview. "When people use this phone, they really, really like it," …
Read More »Play mag reaches 10m sales milestone
Imagine Publishing has announced that its Play magazine has sold more than 10 million copies. This sales milestone for the UK’s longest-running independent PlayStation magazine coincides with its 200th issue, available now. Play was first published in 1995 around the launch of the original PlayStation and is the first independent …
Read More »UKIE: Piracy cost £1.5bn in 2010
UKIE has reported that pirated video games may have cost the industry around 1.5bn in sales last year. The trade body has reported that several publishers have claimed illegally downloaded games could outnumber those sold legitimately by as much as 4:1 – and UKIE director general Michael Rawlinson claims that …
Read More »DC Universe Online breaks SOE records
The recently released PS3 and PC MMO DC Universe Online has become Sony Online Entertainment’s fastest selling game ever, studio president John Smedley has revealed. "Working on out-of-stock problems for DCUO," he explained on Twitter. "It’s our fastest selling game ever. Should have more inventory in Monday." The game was …
Read More »UK devs lead Kinect charge
Video games trade association UKIE has championed the role of UK developers in the early success of both Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move. In the ten weeks ending January 15th 2011, games made by UK developers account for 42 per cent of Kinect software sales in the UK. The best …
Read More »GAME: Trade-in drives 60% of new game sales
More than half of GAME’s customers use trade-ins to fund purchases of new titles, the firm has told MCV. CEO Ian Shepherd revealed the specialist retail giant’s pre-owned offer was a key driver in all sales over the competitive Christmas period. He highlighted trade-in as a real point of difference” …
Read More »Retail suffers winter blues
The UK games software market plunged 11.8 per cent in December, according to GfK Chart-Track. 14.91m units of games were sold last month, down from the 16.9m sold during the same period the year before. The software value figure was also down, albeit slightly. 366.63m was made by UK games …
Read More »EA crowned top publisher of 2010
Electronic Arts has been named the leading games publisher for the second year in a row. The firm took the biggest share of the UK games market in 2010 in terms of revenue generated from games and units sold – as it did in 2009. Data from GfK Chart-Track revealed …
Read More »US: Kinect Sports and Dance Central top 1m
As part of its NPD stat-fest last night, platform holder Microsoft has confirmed two notable sales victories for its motion sensing camera peripheral Kinect. Speaking on Twitter, chief of staff for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business Aaron Greenberg confirmed that both Rare-developer Kinect Sports and Harmonix made dance game Dance Central …
Read More »Nintendo’s 5 years of US success
Gaming stalwart Nintendo is this morning rightly singing loudly about its transformation in this generation of machines, heralding its unprecedented success in the US market. The DS and Wii have been confirmed as the best selling consoles of 2010 in the US with sales of 8.5m and 7m respectively. These …
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