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Capcom believes it has found itself another major IP in the form of Dragon’s Dogma. The publisher has now shipped one million copies of the RPG – the 55th Capcom title to do so. The game has been a particular success in Japan, where its week one unit sales of …
Read More »Humble Bundle V sales reach $5m
The Humble Indie Bundle V has finally screeched to a halt, raising $5.1 million and selling almost 600,000 bundles. The package defied tradition by gathering some of the highest profile indie titles of recent years, even going so far as to include Pyschonauts, a title from Tim Schafer’s studio Double …
Read More »UK games retail sales down 38% in May
The tough times continue for UK games retail, with the latest Chart-Track data showing the market fell 38 per cent last month. 1.8m games were sold in May, generating 45.5m. Both of those figures are almost 40 per cent down compared with the same period in 2011. For the third …
Read More »Diablo III tops US May chart
Blizzard’s Diablo III was the best selling game in the US in May, according to NPD’s latest numbers. The achievement doesn’t even take digital sales into account, which in Diablo III’s case would have been sizable. There were four other new entries in the US Top Ten – Rockstar’s Max …
Read More »Metro: 2033 sales surpass 1.5 million
THQ vows to give sequel 'appropriate marketing'
Read More »Analyst predicts launch sales of 14m for GTA V
Grand Theft Auto V will sell more during its launch week than predecessor GTA IV sold in its first year, if analyst firm Sterne Agee is correct. Arvind Bhatia predicts in a note to investors that at launch the game will sell a colossal 14m copies. To do so it …
Read More »Minecraft sales close in on 10m
Total global sales of indie PC hit Minecraft are rapidly approaching 10m. The actual sales figure stands at maybe” 9.2m sales, according to Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan. Earlier today Mojang founder and Minecraft creator Markus Persson revealed that sales of the PC original had hit 6m. This means that total sales …
Read More »3DS nears UK 1m; Vita sales slow compared to PSP
Nintendo’s 3DS could hit the 1m unit sales milestone next month. PocketGamer has reported numbers from GfK Chart-Track’s exclusive hardware reports, which are widely distributed around the press but not authorised for publication. If the machine does reach that number in June, it will mean that 3DS has taken three …
Read More »The Walking Dead sells 1m episodes
The Walking Dead has surpassed 1m episode sales just two weeks after launch, Telltale has announced. Joystiq confirmed with the developer that episode sales count each episode sold in the season pass offering (five episodes total), as well as individual episode one sales. The most exciting aspect of getting off …
Read More »GameStop posts 12.5% like-for-like Q1 decline
That it outperformed the market” will likely not completely appease GameStop’s shareholders after the company reported a 12.5 per cent decline in like-for-like sales for its fiscal Q1. Total global sales fell $280k to 2bn. Net earnings for the quarter fell slightly to $72.5m. Pre-owned sales suffered a slight decline, …
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