Activision Blizzard, Inc. announced that the Call of Duty franchise has surpassed $3 billion in retail sales worldwide, according to The NPD Group, Charttrack, GfK and internal Activision estimates.
Since its first release, the award-winning Call of Duty franchise has sold in excess of 55 million units worldwide. The latest title in the franchise, Infinity Ward’s [...]
imVOX service connects up to 30 gamers for free; paid service allows users to connect to up to 250 gamers
Ayalogic announced the public beta availability of imVOX, a new voice communication service designed to broaden the use of voice in games. The free imVOX service allows up to 30 gamers to join a voice chat [...]
Activision Publishing, Inc. announced that Infinity Ward’s much-anticipated Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 has become the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment with estimated sell-through sales of $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone in the first 24 hours, according to internal Activision estimates.
Modern Warfare 2 was released [...]
Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, and Cryptic Studios, creators of the acclaimed Champions Online, City of Heroes and City of Villains, announced today the highly anticipated Star Trek Online for PC is set to release on February 2, 2010 in North America and February 5, 2010 across Europe and Australia. [...]
Activision Blizzard, Inc, announced better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter 2009. For the quarter ended September 30, 2009, Activision Blizzard’s GAAP net revenues were $703 million, as compared to the company’s prior GAAP net revenue outlook of $680 million. On a non-GAAP basis, the company’s net revenues were $755 million, as compared with its [...]
Boom for Event as Gamers Cast 1.2m Votes and Name Fallout 3 Their Ultimate Game.
The video games industry was recognised as the fastest-growing entertainment medium and the UK was acknowledged as a centre of creative excellence today as the winners of the world’s most popular video game awards show, the 27th annual Golden Joystick Awards [...]
Nintendo has admitted that Wii sales have “stalled” after reporting a 43 per cent drop in global sales of the console during the first six months of the firm’s current financial year.
The company sold 5.7m Wiis during the six months to 30 September, compared to 10.1m during the year-ago half.
Global Wii videogame sales also dropped [...]
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced today the worldwide release of the God of War III Ultimate Edition available exclusively for the PlayStation 3 system. Built by the fans and for the fans of the award-winning God of War franchise, the God of War III Ultimate Edition will feature an assortment of exclusive collectible and digital [...]
Atari, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, and Cryptic Studios, creators of the acclaimed City of Heroes and City of Villains announced that more than one million characters have been created in their “ultimate superhero universe”, Champions Online. Additionally, the title has garnered numerous high accolades and acclaim, the company said.
Available on PC [...]
Comcast, one of the leading US providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced it is launching next-generation DOCSIS 3.0 and making the leap from broadband to wideband in several areas of California, including Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Stockton, Tracy, Tulare, Visalia, as well as Santa Barbara County (see complete list of 83 [...]
Sky and Microsoft will attempt to launch the new Sky Player for Xbox 360 for a second time after the companies had to pull the service on the official launch day on Tuesday.
“The service has been suspended due to an unforeseen technical issue.” Sky said in a statement. “Sky Player engineers are hard at work [...]
Troy N. Smith, Sr., the founder of the Top Hat which later became Sonic, America’s Drive-In, died Monday, October 26. He was 87.
His daughter, Leslie Baugh, confirmed his death, saying her father had been in declining health recently.
Born in 1922, Smith grew up in the oil patch in east central Oklahoma, attending Mountain View School [...]
Video games will continue to be one of the most sought after gifts this holiday season, according to a recent survey by specialty video game retailer, Game Crazy. The survey reveals that 86 percent of teens and tweens expect to ask for at least one video game this year. With video games hotter than ever [...]
Atari Inc., one of the world’s most recognised video game publishers, announced today that it will bring one of the world’s foremost puzzle brands, Puzzler, to Nintendo DS this holiday season with Puzzler World. The ultimate brain-buster for puzzle lovers of all ages and sequel to smash hit Puzzler Collection, Puzzler World will offer up [...]
The limited edition black Nintendo Wii will be released on November 6th and as a special treat Amazon has already knocked £15 off the retail price.
Nintendo fans can rejoice as they will also be able to choose between two free games, one of which is the record breaking FIFA 10. What is Amazon going to [...]