The Japanese retail game industry has revealed a 16% drop in console and 4% drop in game sales during 2009, as Square Enix’s Dragon Quest IX nonetheless sells over 4 million units for the year. The overarching data comes from the Japanese Dengeki magazine and its parent firm, ASCII Media Works, as translated by weblog [...]
Ahead of tomorrow’s list of Gamasutra’s ‘Game Of The Decade’, as voted and commented on by hundreds of our readers, we’re publishing some of the most-voted on titles that didn’t quite make the Top 12 list, from Katamari Damacy to Vagrant Story and beyond.
REVIEW: The latest DLC pack for Borderlands offers up a lot of action that’s reminiscent of Gears of War’s Horde mode.
Modern Warfare 2’s iron grip on the UK sales chart continues. With a 17% rise in sales over last week, Infinity Ward’s latest remains the most sold game in the country. However, there is a challenger on the horizon — FIFA 10. After seeing an 18% rise in sales, the EA game was just 2,000 [...]
Harmonix updates the Rock Band Network today with a fresh pack of country classics for your downloading pleasure. The "Going Country" Pack 2 includes a number of tracks that were previously exclusive to the disc-based expansion Rock Band Country Track Pack, including the sweet sonorous sounds of Alan Jackson, Keith Urban and Kenny Rogers.
One of my favorite moments from the original BioShock was right at the start. Mere minutes after reaching the dank underwater city of Rapture, injecting myself with strange powers, and dropping my jaw at just the foot of a Big Daddy, I’m stumbling down a corridor. Something catches my eye out of the window, and [...]
In a new Intel-sponsored feature, part of the site’s Visual Computing section, the technical experts behind Mythic and EA’s Warhammer Online discuss the mechanics of keeping the MMO running across multiple servers and data centers. As the article notes by way of introduction to the high-pressure world of keeping an MMO running smoothly: “Late at [...]
Infinity Ward’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ended up as the most pirated game via BitTorrent in 2009, according to media reports, with 4.1 million unauthorized downloads of the PC version alone. A report from BitTorrent-related site TorrentFreak compiled its own estimates from several sources, including reports from all public BitTorrent trackers. Due to [...]
And the year-end Xbox Live deals continue. Today brings the chance to get The Behemoth’s second game, Castle Crashers, for cheap. The price of the Xbox Live Arcade title has for today and today only been dropped by more than 50%, from the usual 1200 to 560 MS Points. Which means it’s never been a [...]
Animal rights group PETA has awarded Electronic Arts a Proggy Award for ‘Most Animal-Friendly Game 2009′, thanks to The Sims 3′s ability to create a vegetarian lifestyle for your Sims. According to a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) statement, the organization’s yearly Proggy Awards (“Proggy” is for “progress”) “recognize animal-friendly achievements in [...]
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