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The disc could yet have some life left in it. Despite plummeting physical game sales in the UK, NPD reckons that US gamers still much prefer to purchase their games in a box. When price is equal 74 per cent of those who on console or PC play five or …
Read More »PS4 outsells Xbox One for fourth successive month in US
Sony’s early dominance of the next-gen hardware race in the US shows no sign of abating. NPD has revealed that PS4 outsold Xbox One in April – that’s the fourth month in a row that Microsoft’s had to settle for second place. PS4’s actual monthly sales weren’t revealed, although Microsoft …
Read More »Philips is trying to halt Wii U and Wii sales in the US
Electronics firm Philips has asked the Delaware courts to force Nintendo to stop selling Wii U in the US. The demand is part of a lawsuit, as reported by Game Informer, in which Philips is claiming that Nintendo’s console and some of its accessories have infringed two of its motion …
Read More »Dropping Kinect will push Xbox One ahead of PS4 in US – analyst
Microsoft decision to slash the price of Xbox One by dropping Kinect could propel the console to the front of the American next-gen race. IDC had previously predicted that Xbox One would take the lead in the territory by 2016 but now the firm reckons this will happen in 2015 …
Read More »China’s mobile market on pace to surpass US in size – report
China’s mobile gaming market is nearing the same size as America’s market and growing at a significantly faster rate, a new report from research firm Superdata has revealed. Games Industry highlights Superdata’s research, which projects Chinese mobile gaming will bring in $3bn in revenue this year – the US is …
Read More »Pokemon X & Y to star in US McDonald’s Happy Meals
Nintendo has signed another Happy Meal licensing deal, this time in the US. Having announced last month that Mario was to feature in UK Happy Meal boxes, Pokemon has now been pencilled in for a fast-food tie-up across the Atlantic. As revealed on the chain’s website, each meal includes a …
Read More »Twitch is America’s most used live streaming site
Big-hitting live video sites such as WWE, Ustream and MLB are trailing in the wake of the phenomenon that is Twitch. A Qwilt report about live streaming usage reveals that Twitch claimed a 43.6 per cent share of the live video streaming audience in the US for the week of …
Read More »Armed SWAT team raids US home after Call of Duty hoax
A Call of Duty player has had his house raided by a US SWAT team after a prank call from a defeated opponent. New York Post reports that over 60 armed officers and a helicopter were called to a Long Beach home after a telephone tip-off claiming that hoax victim, …
Read More »Microsoft cuts Xbox One price in US – official price cut incoming?
$50 has been cut off the price of the Xbox One Titanfall bundle in the US on the Microsoft store. The console can currently be had for $449.99 directly from the platform holder. It also follows similar discounts from a handful of the nation’s biggest retailers. Don’t forget that Microsoft …
Read More »Walmart introducing video game trade-ins in US
3,100 Walmart stores will from next week begin offering customers the chance to trade-in their games. Customers will only be eligible to receive store credit, not cash, and hardware trade-ins are not part of the program. It will be operated by CExchange, which also handles trade-ins at troubled retailer Radio …
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