The 3DS doesn’t have many top-sellers to its name, but one such title is its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time reboot, which launched in June and has sold more than 1 million units. Those gamers who had been pining for a new installment in Nintendo’s venerated action role-playing franchise for the 3DS may soon [...]
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News : Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 copies hit streets early
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn’t supposed to go on sale until November 8, but it appears some copies of Activision’s first-person shooter have already hit the streets. Multiple online auctions for sealed copies of Modern Warfare 3 have already surfaced, with sellers providing photographic evidence to back up claims that the game is in hand. [...]
News : Shippin’ Out Nov. 6-12: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Skyrim
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
After weeks of quips about the escalating holiday buying period, one of the biggest weeks of the season is actually here. If trends of past years continue, this week’s release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will mark the biggest game launch of the year. Skyrim is set to bring dragons to The Elder [...]
News : Minecraft beta cracks 4 million
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
Minecraft has long been a success story for indie games. Even though the game is still officially in beta, it recently crossed another sales milestone that many bigger titles would be happy to reach. Minecraft’s paying denizens number 4 million. Mojang lead Marcus “Notch” Persson, shared via Twitter yesterday that the block-based adventure game has sold more [...]
News : DC Universe Online population spikes 1,000% on free-to-play switch
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
DC Universe Online launched in January as Sony Online Entertainment’s fastest-selling game to date. The game is also attracting swaths of gamers in its new free-to-play form, according to Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley. Patient would-be superheroes can now fight for free. On Saturday, the SOE executive took to his Twitter feed to reveal that user-base [...]
News : Battlefield 3 sweepstakes hits this weekend
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
Battlefield 3 sold through 5 million units in the week following its release. As a way to say “Thank You” for the passion and loyalty of its fans, EA is holding a prize-laden multiplayer event this weekend. The grand prize earns a trip to Sweden…likely not via fighter jet. The Battlefield 3 “Says Thanks” Sweepstakes [...]
News : NBA Jam tops October PSN sales
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
Shooters may be ruling the roost at retail recently, but they couldn’t outdo EA’s big head-sporting basketball game on Sony’s digital storefront last month. Sony today released its list of the top 20 best-selling PlayStation Network games for the month of October, and NBA Jam: On Fire Edition was last month’s star player. Much like [...]
News : BioWare teases new project
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
As it has in years past, Spike TV has managed to line up a fairly impressive number of game announcements and reveals for this year’s televised Video Game Awards. Last week, show organizers teased that one of those reveals would be from BioWare, and today more information on that game emerged, courtesy of GameStop-owned Game Informer magazine. It’s unlikely [...]
News : S&P places Sony debt rating on watch
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
Sony closed out its 2009 fiscal year by posting its first loss since 1995, and the electronics company’s fortunes haven’t improved since then. That downward trend was highlighted last week, when Sony reported a ¥18.3 billion ($234.4 million) net loss for the July-September quarter on revenues that were down 9 percent to ¥1.5 trillion ($19.2 [...]
News : Modern Warfare 3 preorders hit nearly 9 million – Analyst
Posted by Rishi on November 8th, 2011
Even if EA doesn’t expect its Battlefield franchise to unseat Call of Duty as the top-selling first-person shooter this year, the game still logged a solid start of 5 million units sold. Those opening-week sales were bolstered by preorders that exceeded 3 million units, according to EA. And according to Lazard Capital Markets analyst Atul [...]
