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PSPgo Gives PlayStation A Big Slice Of Japanese Hardware Pie
6:30AM Michael McWhertor | The Japanese release of Sony’s PSPgo may have been low-key in terms of numbers, but we’re only getting a look at one day of sales of the platform. It was enough to give Sony the upper hardware hand this week. More »
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1:00PM David Wildgoose | While the rest of the world struggles through economic gloom, the videogames industry in Australia in 2009 is on track to outperform last year’s record results. More »
Australia Defies Global Industry Downturn, Grows 8% in 2009
1:00PM David Wildgoose | While the rest of the world struggles through economic gloom, the videogames industry in Australia in 2009 is on track to outperform last year’s record results. More »
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Bayonetta Brushes Back Pokemon, Tops Japan’s Game Charts
7:40AM Michael McWhertor | PlatinumGames and Sega’s Bayonetta kicked its way to the top of the Japanese game charts, moving nearly 200,000 copies during week one and making it the country’s bestselling game. More »
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Dragon Quest IX Is The Biggest-Selling Game In The World
1:00AM Luke Plunkett | Joint figures released by the NPD Group, GfK and Enterbrain have revealed that Square Enix’s Dragon Quest IX — a DS game unavailable outside Japan — was the biggest-selling game in the world between July and September. More »
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Ubisoft’s First Half Sales Drop More Than 50%
4:40AM Mike Fahey | Ubisoft announced its sales figures for the first half of the 2009-2010 fiscal year today, indicating a sales decline of more than 50 per cent over the same period last year. More »
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GameStop: PS3, Borderlands And Scribblenauts Sales Are “Strong”
12:00PM Michael McWhertor | Post price-drop sales of the PlayStation 3 in the United States appear to have giving the console “strong momentum” following a “strong surge” that should give the console a “very strong” October, according to GameStop VP Tony Bartel. More »
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How’d The PSPgo Launch Go In Japan?
6:30AM Michael McWhertor | According to Enterbrain, the folks who publish Famitsu magazine, the newest PlayStation Portable sold 28,275 units on its first day on the Japanese market. More »
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Tekken 6 Ships (Not Sells) 2.5 Million Copies
8:00PM AJ Glasser | While a bird in the hand is worth more than 2.5 million copies shipped worldwide, Tekken 6 is nothing to sneer at. Wait, that came out wrong… More »
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Bayonetta PS3 Outsells Bayonetta 360 — No Surprise There
7:00PM AJ Glasser | Unofficial day-one sales are in for Bayonetta and boy does Japan love its PlayStation 3s. Ninety-three thousand copies sold for Sony’s home console compared to the 45,000 sold on Xbox 360. More »
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