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Blizzard has confirmed that its massively hyped PC strategy title StarCraft II has now sold in excess of 3m copies worldwide in its first month of availability. The game is already the best selling PC title of the year and the fastest selling RTS ever released. Amazingly, StarCraft II shifted …

Hit iPhone game Angry Birds has now sold more than 6.5m downloads on the App Store, according to developer Rovio. The game, which was published by Chillingo, has only been available since December 2009. What’s more, the more expensive iPad version of the game, which sells for $4.99, has been …

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 …

Sony has confirmed that it has now sold over 1m digital games through its bite-sized PlayStation Minis service since its launch in October 2009. The games, which can be downloaded through PSN, are compatible with both the PS3 and PSP are very much follow the template laid down by Apple’s …

3D TV is set to take off in such a major way that we could see 3D compatible sets in every home in the UK by 2013 – that’s the claim of French publisher Ubisoft. The somewhat surprising assertion flies in the face of many commentators who feel that both …

Total global sales of Apple’s latest tech sensation,the iPad, have now reached 3m units in less than three months on the market. iPad previously hit the 1m sales barrier at the beginning of May. In the following month that total hit 2m. Since then the device has launched in a …

New research from US stats body The NPD Group claims that in 2009 US consumers spent a total of $4.5-4.75bn on pre-owned games, game rentals, subscriptions, digitally downloaded games, DLC and mobile apps. That’s around a third of the estimated $15bn US spend on video games last year. The numbers …

The PS3 may be on a seemingly unstoppable upwards sales trend right now, but turn your attention to PSPgo and it’s a completely different story. Concrete sales numbers are hard to come by, but solid numbers for Australia have been published showing that since its launch in October the digital-only …

In what has become a slow twist of the knife for publishing powerhouse Activision, a further eight developers have left Modern Warfare 2 studio Infinity Ward. Ongoing embarrassment for the lawsuit-riddled Activision continues, as a total of 25 staff is said to have left the highly prized development outfit. According …

The Xbox 360 has now sold over 40m units worldwide since it was first launched in late 2005. The news comes as Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division reports yet another successful quarter, with the three months ending March 31 delivering profits $165m. Revenue hit $1.67bn – up from $1.63bn in …