What’s Steam been doing in the nine months since Valve last released detailed statistics? Adding another five million users and more than 200 new games, for starters.
In October of 2008, Blizzard proudly counted 11 million World of Warcraft subscribers worldwide. In December 2008 the number jumped to 11.5. Now Blizzard updates the count to 12 million, 22 months later. What took so long?
Last week we reported on a Wall Street Journal article that tagged the development cost of StarCraft II at more than $US100 million. According to Blizzard, it was a case of right price, wrong game.
According to Take-Two Interactive second quarter financial results, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption has sold more than five million copies since the game’s May 18 release.
Proving once again that people really enjoy free games, Turbine announces that more than a million new players have joined Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited since its re-launch as a free-to-play game last September.
