[PC] Steam sets new record with 6 million users online concurrently

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Kirby-themed bubblegum record blown away at PAX

by Sinan Kubba on Sep 3rd 2012 8:00PM

In other news, 536 people blew bubblegum bubbles together. Also, it was a world record for simultaneous bubblegum blowing, which is lovely. The bubblegum blowers blew at PAX to celebrate Kirby's 20th anniversary, and the upcoming release of Kirby's Dream Collection on September 16

We were unsure Nintendo could rustle up enough blowers to blow a world record. But, like the bubblegum, we were blown away, as was the previous record of 304 achieved by Kirkwood Community College in 2010. We're sorry, Kirkwood, but 304 to 536 just blows.

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[3DS] Enterbrain: 3DS shatters monthly sales record in Japan

[3DS] Enterbrain: 3DS shatters monthly sales record in Japan

3DS had a rough start, I don't think anyone would deny that. But just this month it has really solidified that those days are in the past now, as it completely blew away all the competition in Japan over the December period.

The Japanese tracking firm, Enterbrain, says that the handheld sold a staggering 1,492,931 between November 28th and December 25th. Those are the highest figures ever recorded since they started in 1997. December was also the seventh month straight that the 3DS had topped Japanese sales.

To add some perspective to this news, second place was held by Sony's newly released PlayStation Vita. The Vita managed to sell 402,794 since the December 17th launch, claiming a distant second.

Whilst it is a bit early to say the 3DS is definitely out of the woods everywhere, I think it is definitely the case in Japan.

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November NPD: A new record, with Xbox 360 joined by MW3 and Skyrim on top (Update 2: Sony PR added)

by Christopher Grant on Dec 9th 2011 5:57PM

(Update: Microsoft Chief of Interactive Entertainment Aaron Greenberg has released Xbox 360 sales via Twitter, which are included below.)

It's a little good, a little bad with this year's November 2011 NPD results. While "unit sales grew for console hardware, as well as console, portable, and PC software," NPD analyst Anita Frazier warns that "a decline in average retail price in all categories" besides portable hardware resulted in dollar sales that were flat compared to last November. That said, November 2011 "marks the best November on record for sales of new physical content," besting the previous record holder, November 2008.

Unsurprisingly, the Xbox 360 was the top selling piece of gear for the month and Frazier notes that the "gap between 360 sales and sales of the next best selling platform was the largest we've seen since December 2008 when the Nintendo DS was the top selling system." Microsoft Chief of Interactive Entertainment Aaron Greenberg later added via Twitter that the Xbox 360 sold 1.7 million consoles during the month of November, up 23% year over year. For the month, Nintendo announced it sold more than 860,000 Wii systems, more than 795,000 Nintendo 3DS systems and more than 350,000 Nintendo DS systems.

Meanwhile, Sony declined to provide specific sales numbers for the PS3. According to Sony PR chief Patrick Seybold, "PlayStation 3 is off to a phenomenal start to the holiday season, recording the best ever Black Friday sales period in the console's five-year history. According to the November NPD report the PS3 saw a 70% increase in hardware and a 30% increase in software year-over-year." The PS3 sold 530,000 units last year, which would situate PS3 sales for November 2011 in the neighborhood of 901,000 units.

In the software arena, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 took its perch at the top of the charts, besting Black Ops "by about 7%," while Skyrim managed "a five-fold increase over Oblivion's first month sales" coming in just a half-million units short of matching its predecessor's lifetime sales. Other newcomers include single SKU exclusives like Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception in seventh place and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword in ninth.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (360, PS3, Wii, PC)Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (360, PS3, PC)Battlefield 3 (360, PS3, PC)Assassin's Creed: Revelations (360, PS3, PC)Just Dance 3 (Wii, 360)Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PSP, PS2)Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)Saints Row: The Third (360, PS3, PC)The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (WII)Batman: Arkham City (360, PS3, PC)

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Record Zelda, Mario 3DS sales over Thanksgiving

Sales figures for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the US show strong numbers for console retail, as well as two new sales records for Nintendo.

Zelda: Skyward Sword’s impressive 535,000 sales since it hit American shelves on November 20 makes it the fastest selling Zelda title ever, whilst Super Mario 3D Land has sold over 500,000 copies since its November 11 launch in the territory, making it the fastest-selling handheld Mario title in the company’s history.

Those software sales fueled a massive rise of 352 per cent in 3DS units sold last week, USA Today reports.

“What this has been able to do is drive our Nintendo 3DS business in only eight months to surpass the full first year volume of the original DS and we still have the bulk of the holiday to go,” said Reggie Fils-Aime.

“We still have the launch of Mario Kart 7 to continue driving our full-year sales on Nintendo 3DS.”

It wasn’t just the 3DS which saw the benefits. The Wii sold more units this Black Friday period than in any other previously, shifting 500,000 consoles over the weekend.

“We know that Black Friday and that entire week is a key selling week, and it is important for products like ours to have a jump in momentum, and we were fortunate to see that,” continued Fils-Aime.

“For us, it really was driven by unique and powerful software and what gives us confidence is that we still have more software to launch in the balance of this holiday period.”

According to figures released by the Consumer Electronics Association, console sales were up across the board for the period. Consumer electronics were the second most popular purchase group over the the weekend, according to the association’s interim report, trailing only clothing.

48 per cent of all shoppers bought electronics, with consoles, mp3 players, televisions and digital cameras all proving popular.

“Black Friday shopping has fast become a Thanksgiving weekend tradition, like football or a post-Turkey dinner nap, for millions of shoppers,” CEA chief economist Shawn DuBravac.

“The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start as many hit the stores or went online to kick-off their holiday shopping as soon as they finished Thanksgiving dessert. These bargain hunters were able to find the deals they were after.”

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eSports draw record viewership numbers at Gamescom

gamescom 2011: World's best professional gamers attract a record number of viewers

First participants of the Intel Extreme Masters 2012 World Championship determined – League of Legends and StarCraft 2 professional matches as the main public attraction in the Energie³ ESL Arena - ESL breaks last year's records

Cologne, August 26, 2011 – First live event of the global league of the video game champions (Intel Extreme Masters) and the kick-off of the new season of the German Championship in computer games (ESL Pro Series) were the main attractions of the Energie³ ESL Arena (hall 9) at gamescom 2011 – world's largest entertainment trade fair taking place in Cologne, Germany. Once again, Electronic Sports League (ESL) presented in Cologne competitive gaming on the highest level attracting to the hall throughout the whole trade fair hundreds of thousands of visitors. The number of viewers following the matches live in the Energie³ ESL Arena throughout five days of trade fairs doubled those from the last year. Also the number of streaming sessions on ESL's web TV service, ESL TV, surpassed last year's record by a factor of five. In addition to the world class tournaments the enthusiasts of games could witness in hall 9 the debuts of such upcoming titles like TrackMania 2 (Ubisoft), Guild Wars 2 (NCsoft) und Transformers Universe (Hasbro).

In the Energie³ ESL Arena at gamescom world's best gamers from Europe, Asia and America met to compete in the Global Challenge Cologne – the first live event of the Intel Extreme Masters season 2011/2012. PuMa from Korea placed first in the StarCraft II competition after defeating his fellow citizen, MC, in the final. In League of Legends team Counter Logic Gaming won against Team Solo Mid. Both StarCraft 2 players, as well as both League of Legends teams advanced to the grand finale of the tournament - the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship, which will take place in 2012 in Germany. The prize money of the gamescom competition was 53,000 US Dollar, which is a share of 635,000 US Dollars – a total prize purse of the league in season 2011/2012.

Gamescom was also the first stop of the ESL Pro Series Winter season 2011, the German national league in video games. At the first Intel Friday Night Game the best gamers from all over the country were fighting for the first important points on their way to the league finals, which will take place in December this year. The event featured competition in three disciplines: FIFA11, TrackMania Nations Forever and Counter-Strike: Source.

The Energie³ ESL Arena hosted also the finals of the ESL Major Series VIII in League of Legends, the ESL Brink Championship, AirRivals European Championship, Sennheiser StarCraft 2 Cup and 'Deutschlands bester Gamer' competition – a tournament organized in co-operation with the BILD Computer Spiele, one of the biggest gaming magazines in Germany. The tournament involved a three-way battle in FIFA11, Shift 2 Unleashed and HALO: Reach. Hundreds of players took part in online qualifiers that determined the best twelve players, which took part in the grand final played on the main stage of the Arena. The winner of the competition is Danny 'kuSKy' Engels from team SK Gaming.

Photos of the events in the Energie³ ESL Arena at gamescom 2011 available at www.turtle-entertainment.de/Dateien/Photos_gamescom2011.zip

"Hundreds of thousands of eSports enthusiasts came to the Energie³ ESL Arena to experience eSports on the highest level with its spine-tingling moments," said Ralf Reichert, the Managing Director of Turtle Entertainment, the organiser of ESL. "The response of the visitors in our hall was overwhelmingly possitive. Gamescom has proven once again that eSports has thousands of enthusiastic followers, not only in the world but also in Germany," he added.

This year's gamescom was visited by about 270,000 people, including thousands of eSports fans. Energie³ ESL Arena attracted over 223,000 visitors who were able to watch world's best gamers in action and enjoy the latest blockbuster video games presented by our partners. Those unable to come to Cologne could follow us live every day on ESL TV, the eSports web TV channel. During our events at gamescom, the program managed to attract an audience five times bigger than last year.

Final results of the Intel Extreme Masters 2011/12 Global Challenge Cologne:

StarCraft® 2 ($21.000)

1. Place: Lee Ho 'PuMa' Joon (KOR)
2. Place: Jang Min 'MC' Chul (KOR)
3. Place: Grzegorz 'MaNa' Komincz (PL)

League of Legends ($32.000)

1. Place: Counter Logic Gaming (US)
2. Place: Team Solomid (US)
3. Place: Fnatic MSI (EU)

Final results of the Intel Friday Night Games:

TrackMania Nations Forever: gaLLo vs. g00x 2:0

Counter-Strike: Source: n!faculty vs. ESC ICY BOX 15:15

FIFA11: MYM vs. Acer 4:0

The winners of the remaining competitions in the ESL Arena:

- ESL Major Series VIII (League of Legends): SK Gaming vs. TSM 2:0

- ESL Brink Championship: team Epsilon vs. sGs 4:2

- Deutschlands bester Gamer: Danny 'kuSKy' Engels

- AirRivals: Mando

- Sennheiser StarCraft 2 Cup: Eugin 'Strelok' Oparyshev

Turtle Entertainment GmbH
Turtle Entertainment was founded in 2000. The company quickly grew to be the European leader in the sector of electronic sports (eSports). The Electronic Sports League (ESL), operated by Turtle Entertainment, is active in 37 different countries worldwide. The league portal www.esl.eu reaches above ten million visits a month generated by more th an 2,5 million registered users. Turtle Entertainment broadcasts ESL events via IPTV channel ESL TV since 2007. The headquarter has 160 employees and is located in Cologne, Germany. Turtle Entertainment owns the majority of the Chinese eSports league PGL (Pro Gamer League) since 2007. Important business partners of Turtle Entertainment are global corporations such as Intel, Alienware, ASUS, adidas, Volkswagen, Nokia, Trend Micro, Sennheiser, Windows 7, Sidewinder, SteelSeries and gamed.de.
Further information is available at www.turtle-entertainment.com

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Activision enjoys record revenues in Q2, digital represents 37% of sales

by Alexander Sliwinski on Aug 3rd 2011 5:40PM

Activision Blizzard enjoyed record revenues in the second quarter (ending June 30, 2011) with $1.1 billion in sales and $335 million in profit, compared to $967 million in sales and $219 million in profit during the same period last year. Overall, Activision has seen revenues of $2.6 billion for the first six months of the year, compared to $2.2 billion in 2010.

Digital sales, like those Call of Duty: Black Ops map packs, saw a 27 percent increase year over year. Digital represented 37 percent of the company's total net revenues, or $423 million in the quarter. Don't take that to mean retail is dead to Activision: $660 million (an increase of 13 percent) comes from ye olde shoppe, though part of that 58 percent of the company's revenues still goes into champagne baths and caviar breakfasts.

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[PS3, X360] Dead Rising 2: Off The Record box art revealed

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[X360] Kinect sells 10 million, sets record

[X360] Kinect sells 10 million, sets record
Microsoft are pretty happy with themselves at the moment, deservedly so. It appears that their motion peripheral, Kinect, has set a new milestone. The device recently sprinted beyond 10 million sold as well as 10 million Kinect games sold as well.

The number is impressive due to the amount of time it took to achieve those figures, in fact it looks as though it has even set a new record. With the support of the Guinness World Records Microsoft is claiming that it is the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever.

The device sold an 133,333 units per day for a grand total of 8 million units in the first 60 days on shelves between November 4th 2010 and January 3rd 2011. Since then the numbers have slowed a little, but Microsoft is promising that there is more killer software for the peripheral on the way.

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RE: [X360] Kinect sells 10 million, sets record Wow I had my doubts about kinect but guess I was proven wrong. Props to Microsoft for setting a milestone.

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[X360] Kinect sells 10 million, sets record

[X360] Kinect sells 10 million, sets record
Microsoft are pretty happy with themselves at the moment, deservedly so. It appears that their motion peripheral, Kinect, has set a new milestone. The device recently sprinted beyond 10 million sold as well as 10 million Kinect games sold as well.

The number is impressive due to the amount of time it took to achieve those figures, in fact it looks as though it has even set a new record. With the support of the Guinness World Records Microsoft is claiming that it is the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever.

The device sold an 133,333 units per day for a grand total of 8 million units in the first 60 days on shelves between November 4th 2010 and January 3rd 2011. Since then the numbers have slowed a little, but Microsoft is promising that there is more killer software for the peripheral on the way.

Written by: Kyran Morrison

RE: [X360] Kinect sells 10 million, sets record Wow I had my doubts about kinect but guess I was proven wrong. Props to Microsoft for setting a milestone.

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Test Drive Unlimited 2 sets franchise record atop UK charts

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 14th 2011 10:12AM

It may be a case of Top Gear-fever, but Atari's Test Drive Unlimited 2 raced to the top of the UK all formats sales chart. Chart-Track notes that TDU2 is "by far" the biggest launch in the franchise, outselling the previous entry by more than double, with 68 percent of sales on Xbox 360, 28 percent on PS3 and the rest (4 percent) on PC.

After two weeks as king of the mountain (standing gallantly atop a pile of Necromorphs), Dead Space 2's Isaac Clarke took the long way through an air duct and ended up in second place. The rest of the top five is some kind of late-2010 flashback, as FIFA 11, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood occupy spots three through five, respectively.

Last week's big mover was Ubisoft's Dance Juniors, a "Kidz Bop" version of its unstoppable Just Dance franchise, which jumped 290 percent in its second week, just narrowly missing entry into the top ten at spot 12. We've placed a video of the game after the break to see what all the fuss is about, along with the UK top ten.

Top 10 UK Software Sales (All Formats); week ending February 12:
Test Drive Unlimited 2Dead Space 2FIFA 11Call of Duty: Black OpsAssassin's Creed: BrotherhoodMario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!Just Dance 2Mario Sports MixGrand Theft Auto IV: Complete EditionLittleBigPlanet 2

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