Times are tough. You’re no doubt sick of hearing that. But it’s true! Money is tight for developers and publishers the world over. Unless your name is Nintendo or Activision. Or, in this case, PopCap.
comScore today have released figures showing big increases in the number of people playing PC games online. Not the Crysis/Counter-Strike kind of online gaming, though. The Newgrounds kind of online gaming.
Namco Bandai is ready to roll out NamcoMuseum.comm in PlayStation Home. Included in it is a new version of classic shooter XEVIOUS called XEVIOUS Resurrection.
Word has it that upcoming PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 requires, like a lot of PS3 games do these days, a mandatory install. Sign of the times!
Not really. But that doesn’t stop Nintendo from releasing Game Boy Advance hardware and software sales data.
In addition to the hardware sales info, Nintendo also released software sales data for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii. DS software sales are down domestically, but Wii software sales are up in Japan.
You guessed it: times are tough. And few places are feeling it as bad as Sony, who have tonight announced a drop in games unit revenue, hardware sales and software sales.
Nintendo also released the hardware sales for the April 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 as well as life-to-date totals.
PS3 sales are down 9 percent. Sony announced today that the company sold 4.46 million PS3s from October-December of last year.
Whoops! Atari are recalling every single copy of Dragon Ball Origins in Australia, after it was discovered the rating handed out to the game didn’t quite match some of it’s naughtier moments.
