Left 4 Dead 2 Sells 2.9 Million, Dragon Age 2.7 Million EA Loses $82 Million Business (via Kotaku) - Electronic Arts touted worldwide sales of Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age: Origins during today's investor call, the two titles combining for more than 5.6 million in sales. In other good news, EA lost $82 million last quarter.
No that is good news, considering that EA lost $641 million during the same quarter last year. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 6 months ago
EA Sports 2010 Releases Do Not Include NCAA Basketball Rumor (via Kotaku) - NCAA Basketball is not listed among key sports titles due for release in Electronic Arts' coming fiscal year, fueling speculation that the poor-selling franchise has been discontinued.In its filings today, EA notes that the list is not a complete picture of all titles to be released in the coming year. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 6 months ago
Infinite Space Preview: Seems Vast And Charty Preview (via Kotaku) - Platinum Games has made a video game that's really sexy. Before that, one that's really violent. Next: A game that's really... spaceship?
Infinite Space is set for March release in the U.S., a Nintendo DS game from the Platinum label behind Bayonetta and Madworld but developed primarily by Nude Maker, creators of erotic games. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 6 months ago
The Once and Future Sim Well Played (via Kotaku) - One hundred million copies sold, 36 magazine covers and 100 game critic awards: The Sims franchise continues to thrive ten years after its launch, basking in the uncommon flattery of having no real competition.
The Sims importance and impact on the video game industry as a whole could perhaps be measured by the games created by other developers that tried to recapture its success. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 6 months ago
Gran Turismo Series: 55 Million Sold, And Counting Gt (via Kotaku) - Gran Turismo developers Polyphony Digital have released a tally of lifetime sales figures for the series, useful not only for armchair statisticians, but also those curious as to how well Gran Turismo PSP has performed.
Turns out it's done quite well for itself, selling 1. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 405 | 6 months ago
Pirate Ordered To Pay Nintendo $1.5 Million Piracy (via Kotaku) - Nintendo sent out a press release today triumphantly boasting of victory in an Australian court over a man accused of pirating New Super Mario Bros. Wii. And how this single man now owes the mega-rich company $1.5 million.
Last November, Nintendo says it was able to "employ the use of sophisticated technological forensics" to catch the man, James Burt, who has been convicted of uploading the word's first pirated copy of New Super Mario Bros. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
Shakespeare As Video Game Designer What If (via Kotaku) - There's not much Shakespeare in video games, no major Hamlet games and only scattered hopes for a Macbeth one. The lead creator of Dante's Inferno thinks the writer himself, could have been a game design visionary.
Hey, the Wall Street Journal asked Dante's Inferno lead game creator Jonathan Knight the question:
WSJ: You mentioned Shakespeare as one of your interests during your MFA. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
Bioshock 2's Jordan Thomas Takes Your Calls During This Week's Podcast Podcast (via Kotaku) - Into the deep we go this week as Bioshock 2 creative director Jordan Thomas joins me and Brian to take your calls live on Wednesday's live Kotaku podcast.
Thomas will be our in-studio guest for the hour. On Wednesday at 11am Kotaku Time (that's 1pm ET, 10am PT), you will be able to call in and ask the main man behind Bioshock 2 anything you want. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
The Nintendo Download: Blaster Master, Fieldrunners, And A New Format Downlaodables (via Kotaku) - Blaster Master Overdrive, Fieldrunners DS, and Princess Tomato shine their love on The Nintendo Download this week, with a new format making it much easier to see what you might be spending your Nintendo points on.I've been doing The Nintendo Download since Nintendo started putting things up for download, and lately it's gotten a bit cumbersome. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
Free Realms Celebrates 8 Million Players Milestones (via Kotaku) - It's been awhile since we checked in with the player population of the free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms, and Sony Online Entertainment snuck in more than five million additional users while we weren't looking.
When last we checked, way back in June of last year, Free Realms had just surpassed the three million player mark. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 402 | 6 months ago
Myst Online: Uru Live Lives Again Relaunch (via Kotaku) - Two years after operator GameTap shut the servers down, Myst Online: Uru Live is back in action and free to play, thanks to original developer Cyan Worlds.
Myst Online: Uru Live was originally intended to be the online multiplayer component of Cyan Worlds' Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, but that never quite worked out. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 399 | 6 months ago
China shuts down large hacker ring (via After Dawn) - Chinese officials have announced this week the bust of a large hacking ring that was allegedly the nation's largest distributor of hacking tools.
The Black Hawk Safety Net, which used the site 3800cc.com as a front, allegedly made $1 million in income in 2009 from 12,000 subscribers. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 399 | 6 months ago
Hannover, YouTube make streaming deal (via After Dawn) - Hannover House, the video and film distributor has announced today a new deal with Google that will launch a video rental and VOD channel for Hannover on YouTube.
Starting this week, the channel will have 100 films from Hannover House, Elite Entertainment, FOCUSFilms, and Plaza Entertainment. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 399 | 6 months ago
Miyamoto mentions new hardware, new MotionPlus games (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) -
During an acceptance speech at the Japan Media Arts Festival this past weekend, Shigeru Miyamoto casually referred to unannounced Nintendo hardware and at least one new Wii project he's working on, which uses the MotionPlus peripheral. Of course, since Miyamoto wasn't making any formal announcements, that's all he said on those fronts, according to Andriasang's summary of a 4Gamer report. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 396 | 6 months ago
We sure hope the new Sonic 4 isn't a remake of this Sonic 4 (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) -
Here's a fun little piece of 16-bit history for you -- did you know that when Sega made its big announcement last week, a game called Sonic 4 had actually been floating around for 14 years? Sure, it's not an official Sonic game, mind you -- it was merely a modded version of the classic Sunsoft SNES platformer Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 390 | 6 months ago
This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Nintendo Week rips the lid off of it (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) -
We usually don't buy into Nintendo Week's particular brand of family-friendly hype generation -- after all, this is a Nintendo-funded program and we'll be damned if we're going to let The Man tell us what we're going to like. But this week's update on the Nintendo Channel is pretty amusing, especially if you enjoy fake mustaches, fourth wall destruction and tips on playing New Super Mario Bros. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 390 | 6 months ago
Macmillan books return to Amazon (via After Dawn) - After one week of suspended sales, physical books published by Macmillan have now returned to Amazon, ending the dispute that begun last week over the price of digital books (e-books).
Macmillan wanted the end of the set-price $9.99 e-book rate that Amazon has had for best-sellers, claiming it is too low and under-values books in general. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 390 | 6 months ago
Discounted: Brand new Tony Hawk Ride at ... Goodwill? (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - It may seem at this point that we're kicking an already downed and plenty insulted victim here, but we couldn't help but note the shockingly low price of a Tony Hawk: Ride bundle -- complete with board, unopened -- discovered by Gamertell at an Arlington Heights, Il. Goodwill store. Discuss (0) | Login to recommend | Popularity: 387 | 6 months ago
Trade In Old Games and Earn Big Rewards with Swagbucks (via PS3 informer) -- Swagbucks is an interesting new company that awards users points for using its own internet search engine. Simply by surfing using the toolbar or referring friends, users can quickly accumulate points. Those points, which are called Swagbucks, can then be...
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