With the E3 videogame expo taking place in Los Angeles, most of the news this week is focused on the announcements coming from big videogame companies like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Activision.But a quick look at the charts is always interesting and the United Kingdom videogame one is right on ti... |
4 June 2009
04:04 GMT |
 |
|
Finally, a new videogame release has managed to kick Wii Fit, the Nintendo best seller, off the number one spot in the United Kingdom chart. The move was perfectly executed by UFC 2009: Undisputed, the THQ published fighting game that is the beginning of a new franchise for the company, one that could go over WWE to ... |
28 May 2009
04:25 GMT |
|
|
Software releases drove up the impressive results that the videogames industry posted in April 2008, with Grand Theft Auto IV and Mario Kart Wii leading the charge. Now, software releases are probably to blame for the slump that the NPD Group reported for April 2009, as the research group says that the overall value ... |
15 May 2009
17:31 GMT |
|
|
Software sales for March 2009 are 17% lower than those for March 2008, which benefited from the release of Nintendo's Super Smash. Bros Brawl. The overall value of videogame sales is about 792 million dollars and the big title of the month of March is Capcom's Resident Evil 5, which moved close to 1,5 milli... |
17 April 2009
15:51 GMT |
|
|
Pokemon games are incredibly successful on the Nintendo DS. Until now, there have been more than 186 million units sold in the series and the recent release of Platinum is set make that number even bigger. Junichi Masuda, who has for a long time worked on the Nintendo Pokemon series, believes that the main reason beh... |
6 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
|
|
Enterbrain, the company that compiles weekly sales charts of software and hardware in Japan, and publishes the gaming magazine Famitsu, has just released some very unsettling numbers regarding the said market.According to its figures, the videogames market shrank in Japan from March 2008 to March 2009 by no less than... |
3 April 2009
14:11 GMT |
|
|
Pokemon Platinum, or Pocket Monsters Platina, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. The title is part of the Pokemon RPG series, which also comprises releases such as Pokemon Pearl or Po... |
26 February 2009
14:21 GMT |
|
|
Nintendo has announced the dates when Pokemon Platinum arrives outside of Japan, where the game has been available since September 13, 2008. The title is set to arrive on March 22 in North American and a full two months later, on May 22, in Europe.Pokemon Platinum is a very weird beast. It's basically a remake o... |
13 February 2009
06:44 GMT |
|
|
Nintendo of America has just released to the press a list of videogames for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS it plans to launch in the first quarter of 2009. The most important properties that the company is releasing are Pokemon Platinum for the Nintendo DS handheld, arriving in North America on March 22, 2009, and ... |
19 December 2008
20:31 GMT |
|
|
GfK Chart Track Limited has announced a top five of the best selling videogames of the last quarter. The chart covers the period from July to September 2008 in the three biggest videogames markets, the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.Electronic Arts must be really content with the results. Madden NFL 2009, th... |
17 November 2008
11:51 GMT |
|
|
Probably one of the most successful franchises on the Nintendo DS handheld console, the Pokemon franchise, will welcome a new member to the family and it will be called Pokemon Platinum. The news has been revealed in the latest issue of the Coro Coro Magazine and, even though most of the fans would've loved to g... |
12 May 2008
12:06 GMT |
|
|
