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Call of Duty: Black Ops Is the Most Pirated PC Game of 2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the most successful video game of the year, managing to sell a huge number of units since it was released at the beginning of November, but the record breaking doesn't stop here, as a new statistic shows that Black Ops is the most pirated PC game of the year. As the 2010 draws to a ...

29 December 2010
04:40 GMT

NPD Software: Madden NFL Manages a One Two in August

The figures for the North American market launched by the NPD Group for the month of August has show the video game industry decline in terms of sales by about 10 percent over the same period of last year, with the software segment being the hardest hit, despite the very successful launch of the Electronic Arts made ...

10 September 2010
07:50 GMT

Nintendo Sees Loss Because of Falling DS Sales

Nintendo has announced that it has lost 25.2 billion Yen, which is about 288.4 million dollars, during the first quarter of 2010, a period that ended on June 30. During the same period of last year Nintendo posted a profit of 42.3 billion Yen, a figure that translates to 483.7 million dollars, so that drop is pretty ...

2 August 2010
04:04 GMT

EndWeekGame: July 16

Andrei Dumitrescu: This EndWeekGame piece is no limited to just the two days, Saturday and Sunday, that most of us get off work out of the seven that make up a week. I'm going on holiday, which means that I have plans to actually try and catch up to my gaming backlog during the coming week. I plan to begin with ...

16 July 2010
17:01 GMT

NPD Software: Red Dead Redemption Tops the Chart Yet Again

The video game software data for June in the United States has been released by the NPD Group. As it was expected, Red Dead Redemption has claimed the top spot once again after last month, totaling a number of 963,200 of copies sold across both of the platforms it has been released on. The Xbox 360 version fared bett...

16 July 2010
02:56 GMT

Japan: Football and the DSi LL Dominate Charts

The hardware chart in Japan is for the second week in a row dominated by the Nintendo DSi LL version of the handheld, which is still seeing the effects of a recent price cut introduced by the hardware company. Meanwhile the software chart is seeing significant changes with new entries taking on four of the top five s...

12 July 2010
15:01 GMT

Metacritic: Video Games in 2010 Are Better than in 2009

Are video games getting better or are video game reviewers just giving better grades to the titles launched this year? This is the question that pops up when one reads the report critical site Metacritic has recently released, showing how the game reviews from the first half of 2010 scored compared to those from the ...

6 July 2010
16:31 GMT

Spin Cycle: Nintendo Thinks Super Mario Galaxy 2 Is Great

The NPD Group numbers for May showed up last week, after a short delay, and they prove the videogame industry slid down 5% when compared to the same month last year. But despite the gloomy news, the three big companies that make both hardware and videogames raced to put a positive spin on the news.Cammie Dunaway, who...

5 July 2010
02:02 GMT

NPD Software: Red Dead Redemption Tops Chart, Mario Disappoints

A lot of North American gamers have played Red Dead Redemption, the open world action title created by Rockstar and published by Take Two, but that was not enough to make the month of May a very good one for the video game industry. Overall value of sales is down about 5% when compared to the same period of last year...

2 July 2010
05:30 GMT

Analyst: Red Dead Redemption Is Leading May Sales

The NPD Group sales numbers for both hardware and videogames for the month of May have been delayed as the company is upgrading its technology base but that does not stop analysts from weighing in about how various titles performed during the 30 days of the month. And it seems the biggest winner of the period is Red ...

30 June 2010
13:31 GMT

Japan: Mario Makes a Comeback

Both the hardware and the videogame charts for Japan have seen shakeups, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 from Nintendo managing to regain the top spot and with the DSi LL handheld seeing its sales more than double in the country after its maker decided to cut its price. A DSi XL can now be bought for 18,000 yen, which ...

28 June 2010
13:51 GMT

There Is No Way to Move Red Dead Redemption from the Top of the UK Charts

Red Dead Redemption maintained its tight grip of the first place for the fifth time in a row in the United Kingdom all-formats sales charts in the past week. As a matter of fact, nothing has changed in the top three spots of the list, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 staying on the second place and EA Sports' 2010 FIF...

22 June 2010
02:47 GMT

Japan: PlayStation 3 Loses Out to Nintendo Wii

The Japanese videogame market saw sales stay pretty much level during the previous week, although overall sales were significantly lower than during the same period of the last month. The PlayStation Portable from Sony managed to sell 21,662 units and remain the best selling individual gaming console while the DS lin...

21 June 2010
13:41 GMT

Japan: Super Mario Galaxy 2 Still on Top

Sales of hardware have been slowing down on the Japanese market while Super Mario Galaxy 2 continues to lead the software chart. It's a slow period as gamers are preparing to watch the announcements from E3 and with most potential buyers looking forward to the fall, which will come packed with launch dates for K...

14 June 2010
05:57 GMT

Nintendo Will Be Very Careful with the Titles that Feature Mario

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is now out and busting the charts in Nintendo's home region of Japan, with launches for the United States and Europe coming soon. The new videogame powered by the well known character will certainly be a success but Nintendo might be wearing down the value of its most iconic creation, consid...

10 June 2010
04:02 GMT

UK Charts: Red Dead Redemption Is on a Killing Spree

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publisher Association has published last week's game sales charts. Red Dead Redemption is keeping its powerful hold on the first position for the third week in a row, making it the most successful release of the year, at least until the autumn. The approach of the World Cup...

7 June 2010
15:51 GMT

Japan: Super Mario Still Has the Power

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is now out in Japan and the new adventure, lite on narrative and quite loaded with new tricks and gameplay mechanics that will see the beloved character drill and fly his way across stars in his search for the elusive Princess Peach, managed to take the first spot in the videogame chart in the La...

7 June 2010
04:26 GMT

New Wii Party Coming on July 8

Nintendo has announced that its next party game, simply called Wii Party, is set to be launched on July 8 on the Japanese market, much sooner than anyone was expecting. Previous talk about it only mentioned that it was set to be outed during the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2011. The Japan launch for ...

3 June 2010
15:11 GMT

Halo: Reach Is the Most Expected Videogame Launch

The so-called Second Christmas sales period, which saw publishers launch all those titles that would have crowded the fall launch season of 2009, with hits like God of War 3 and Mass Effect 2, is all but over and people are looking forward beyond the summer to the big releases of this year. And it seems that Halo: Re...

4 May 2010
18:31 GMT

A Gamer's Week: May 2

This week has been dominated by news items linked to the beta stage for Halo: Reach and the fact that Activision and Bungie will be working together for the foreseeable future. But we've also had the time to write an EndWeekGame piece dealing with a return to Dragon Age and a Weekend Reading article revolving ar...

2 May 2010
10:31 GMT

Zelda Wii Pretty Much Confirmed for Christmas 2010

Last week, Nintendo announced its release plans for the coming months and the big news was that both Mario and Metroid would be getting fresh games before June is through. Super Mario Galaxy 2, the first direct sequel Nintendo has done in some time, is set to arrive on May 23 in North America and June 11 in Europe, w...

2 March 2010
16:21 GMT

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Coming on May 23, Other Titles Detailed

Nintendo held a media summit during which it unveiled release dates for a host of titles set to populate the Nintendo Wii home console and the Nintendo DS line up of handhelds in the coming months. The big news is that gamers now have a release date for both Super Mario Galaxy 2, which is set to be released on May 23...

25 February 2010
17:51 GMT

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Might Be More than You Can Handle

It seems like it's not just gamers that feel the nostalgia of the old titles. Nintendo misses all the verbal abuse along with the following praise it received from the nerve-wrecking games from the days of the NES. Stuck on the Wii, the latest titles the gaming giant released were mainly aimed either at a younge...

17 November 2009
08:14 GMT

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Will Attract Both Hardcore and Casual Players

Nintendo needs to walk quite a fine line with its upcoming games. Last year, hardcore players were flustered by the fact that the Japanese publisher released titles geared towards more inexperienced players.This year, the announced line up includes titles like a new Zelda game for the Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and a ...

14 July 2009
17:41 GMT

Miyamoto Talks Zelda for the Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 2

One game creator who always gets a lot of trust, support and resources from Nintendo is Shigeru Miyamoto, the developer who managed to almost single handedly build the publisher's biggest franchises.The E3 Nintendo presentation this year featured him prominently and the company made sure to please its hardc...

8 July 2009
05:16 GMT

Shigeru Miyamoto Doesn't Want Complicated Stories in Games

Video game design is certainly a tricky job, which carefully balances technical aspects with visual and narrative ones in order to create a cohesive experience that can grasp the attention of gamers and, with it, their hard earned money. But it now seems that the story part of any game doesn't necessarily have ...

19 June 2009
02:18 GMT

E3: Dive into Endless Ocean 2

Yesterday, Nintendo had its E3 presentation and amongst stories of new Mario games, including a Super Mario Galaxy 2 announcement, and fresh Metroid releases, the Japanese publisher also announced its plans to release a sequel to Endless Ocean, the exploration game that invited players to dive into the water and see ...

4 June 2009
03:11 GMT

E3: Super Mario Galaxy 2 Revealed by Nintendo, 90% New Levels

Nintendo saved the best for last at its press conference held yesterday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. After revealing some pretty big news, the announcement of Super Mario Galaxy 2 left everyone in shock and awe.That's right, the blockbuster title Super Mario Galaxy, that revealed ver...

3 June 2009
04:49 GMT


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