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Namco Bandai his filed it financial report for the quarter ending June 30th 2010, brining with it net sales reached YEN 81,912m, an increase of 8.2 per cent over the YEN 75,729m seen in the same period a year before. Operating income was up from YEN 2,758m last year to …
Read More »Online Pass boosts net play
Publisher EA has said that its first two titles to include an Online Pass – an in-box DLC code that is required to access some of the online features of the game – have both seen higher rates of online play than last year’s iterations. Though Tiger Woods 11 and …
Read More »Starcraft II hits 1m on day one
Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that last week’s new release Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty sold over 1m copies worldwide in its first 24 hours of availability. The numbers have already cemented its position as the best selling game of 2010. Furthermore, it went on to sell in excess of …
Read More »Physical still dwarfing digital sales
A new study entitled ‘The D2 Report: Discs & Digital – The Business of Home Entertainment Retailing’ from the Entertainment Merchants Association claims that traditional boxed product still accounts for the vast bulk of sales in the video games market. It claims that combined DVD and Blu-ray sales totalled $17.9bn …
Read More »Ubisoft games ‘will drive new hardware’
Ubisoft’s leftfield range of games for Kinect, 3DS and more will help give consumers a reason to buy new games hardware. The publisher broke the mould at E3 with a number of surprise unveilings for the likes of Your Shape, Michael Jackson and Child of Eden. It was also the …
Read More »Starcraft II outshines predecessor
Activision Blizzard’s Starcraft II is celebrating a significant victory in the UK Charts this week – but that’s not the only achievement the game is enjoying this week. GfK Chart-Track has confirmed that in just five days on the shelves Starcraft II has already sold more copies than the first …
Read More »Ballmer: iPad sold more than I’d like
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts that tablet computers were a "job one urgency" for the company. Despite the company recently becoming a licensee of CPU-designer outfit ARM, Ballmer said that the company is focusing on tablet computers based on Intel CPUs running the Windows 7 operating system. The …
Read More »PS3 outsold 360 in last 12 months
Global sales of the PS3 in the 12 months ending June 30th 2010 were about 4m units ahead of the sales enjoyed by Xbox 360. The number-crunching over on VG247 shows that Microsoft’s machine shifted 10.3m consoles in the last financial year. This compares to 14.3m unit sales of Sony’s …
Read More »BioWare: 10m units is a hit
Games like Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 need to sell 10m units at retail to be a hit, according to developer BioWare. We need to sell 10m units,” BioWare vice president and co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk told Videogamer. That’s actually the new target, right? We do Top 10 …
Read More »XBLA on track to make $140m this year
A new report from Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment has estimated that Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade service has to date in 2010 made something in the region of $46.1m, a number that if true represents a 13 per cent year-on-year increase. The study also estimates that the digital portal will …
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