PlayStation

The Best Way To Get New Games? By Playing Other Games

We’ve all notices that Achievements, Trophies and other game-specific accomplishments don’t mean squat in the real world, right? You can’t go to your local video game store and say, “Hey, I’ve got all the Platinum trophies in Uncharted 3; can I get a copy of Starhawk, please?”


September 28, 2011
PC

3 Out Of 10 Xbox 360 Gamers Now Also Zynga Gamers

Do Halo fanatics secretly want to farm? Or do CityVille architects just want to get on the Kinect?


August 19, 2011
In Real Life

Nine Out Of 10 Will Not Finish The Game They Are Playing

Just 10 percent of gamers actually finish a game, an industry veteran told CNN in a recent feature, and his colleagues and other figures back him up. “Ninety percent of players who start your game will never see the end of it unless they watch a clip on YouTube,” says Keith Fuller.


March 24, 2011
PlayStation

What Sort Of Person Plays Marvel Vs Capcom 3?

Roughly one month after its release, Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds churns up fun facts galore that gaming demographer (and social network) Raptr has culled and interpreted for your enlightenment. The full size is at bottom.


December 18, 2010
News

Ten Percent Of Warcraft Gamers Account For More Than Half Its Playing Time

Studying players’ time following the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm 10 days ago, Raptr determined that the top 11 percent of most active users account for more than half of the total time spent in the game.


August 19, 2010
In Real Life

Analysis Shows Madden’s Old Model Goes Out With A Bang

Raptr, the gaming social network counting more than a million users, examined their gamers’ habits with Madden NFL 10 and found gameplay spikes sharply – beyond Christmas-sales levels – about a month before the newest version releases.


September 5, 2008
News

Raptr – Social Gaming Network Enters Public Beta

Sometimes Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Orkut and OpenSocial just aren’t enough. Too much real world stuff, not enough gamerscore bragging.

Enter Raptr – a new social network for gamers founded by Dennis ‘Thresh’ Fong (he had to do something with all that prize money) that offers a way of tracking your friends and sharing what you are in to on several popular games networks.

Once you have signed in and chosen a nick, you can enter your IDs on Xbox Live, PSN, World of Warcraft, Steam and others, then start entering the games in your collection.

Where it can, Raptr will pull data from your various networks and update your profile with a list of your current games, achievements and the like. There are plugins for displaying your data on Facebook et al too, of course.

A free client for PC or Mac will display and update data from you and your friends in real time as well as suck data from any games you play on your box — less of an issue for most Mac geeks, presumably.

Raptr [via 1UP]