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This Week In Gaming
- (shacknews) Torchlight Sells 500,000; Developer Bought by Perfect World
Runic Games’ indie action RPG Torchlight has sold 500,000 copies at retail and digitally on the PC. It was also recently released for the Mac along with the release of the Mac version of Steam.
Additionally, China-based MMO publisher and developer Perfect World has justannounced (via Joystiq) that it has acquired a majority stake in Runic Games for around $8.4 million. Runic is currently working on an MMORPG version of Torchlight, which is slated to be a free-to-play game likely supported by micro-transactions. This is a popular business model in China and should be a successful partnership for both parties.
- Like creepy jesters? Like Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (or the idea of it?) Then why not head down to your nearest Gamestop and preorder Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and you’ll get the horrific-looking Harlequin character. Freaked out!
- Survey SAYS! A survey held by NDP (a market research company), has held a survey about the top couple of MMOS.
We’ll start with a quick overview of the participants. Males comprised 68% and females 32%. While MMO gaming is still mostly male, female gamers are no longer a revolutionary new concept in the MMO world. Women currently make up about a third of the gaming population, a figure similar to last year’s survey. The largest age group was in the 25-34 range, and the majority of those surveyed played 20+ hours a week. DDO has knocked out Guild Wars’ #3 spot, showing that free-to-play subscriptions are becoming increasingly more popular. Naturally, WoW was the chart-topper.
- Namco-Bandai signs a user-agreement to make Power Rangers games!
- Bethesda announced yesterday via an e-mailed press release that Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas will be released in a standard edition and an uber-post nuclear warfare awesomeness Collector’s Edition.
- According to a source close to Raven Software, the company has been pulled off of development of a new James Bond game in order to work on maps for Call of Duty: Black Ops
- If you have recently installed Steam Mac and had bought some games on Steam PC that are available on Steam Mac, then you should be able to play those games on the Mac.
- (joystiq)Pachter: April’s low game sales ‘baffling’
The April NPD sales figures for the US were bad. How bad? Let’s try: The April NPD figures were as if millions of analysts “cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced” bad. Speaking with IndustryGamers, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says his group found the results “baffling.” He notes that sales were the lowest since May of 2007, “when this generation was barely underway,” and it was the weakest April since 2005. Pachter also stated, “The sequential decline of 54% is the greatest in the 11 years that we have been tracking monthly data (except for December-January declines), dwarfing the previous record of 42% set in March-April 2002.”
At a loss to explain exactly why April 2010 was so bad, Pachter feels it was just a “fluke.” He explained, “We do not believe that core gamers suddenly shifted allegiance to Facebook or iPhone games in April, nor do we believe that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 online play increased dramatically during April.”
With May’s lineup including several major titles across multiple consoles, the analyst feels the month could show “dramatic growth.” If not, well, let’s just hope for the best right now. Flukes happen.
Rumor Mill
“After eating a hallucinogenic mushroom and trying to ride a dinosaur that ate turtles, I was told that:”
- The guys over at Bioware are saying that “If we don’t blow your mind at E3 this year then your mind simply can’t be blown.” And they have said that Starwars The Old Republic will not be released in the 2011 fiscal year. It will be released at the end of the 2010 fiscal year(which is from Dec ember 2010 to May 2011).
- Little Big planet 2 will allow for the creation of not only plat forming games but racing, RPG, and even adorable shooter games.
- Bethesda has applied to the LA convention center for the use of pyrotechnics. Something about Elder Scrolls V.
5 Deals in 5 Minutes
- Red Dead Redemtion- Toys R Us: $25 gift card Tuesday only 10am-2pm, Reward members only
- Save $15 on a year of Xbox Live.
12 Month Xbox 360 Live $34.99 at Newegg - Valve offers downloads of Portal for Windows or Mac for free via its Steam service. Deal ends May 24.
- Walmart Video Game Bundles: Three PS3 games-
- Choose from games like Resistance, Rachet and Clank, Uncharted, Little Big Planet and more.
- For ATI video card users, Valve offers downloads of Half-Life 2: Lost Coast for Windows and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch for Windows for free via its Steam service when you create a new Steam account.
- Of note, NVIDIA video card users can get both of the above games plus Portal: First Slice for Windows and Peggle Extreme for Windows for free.
Question of the Week
Favorite piece of gaming merchandise you’ve seen/own?
- From Twitter
- BlackLab: I love my Mass Effect N7 hoodie, but my favorite was an Ocarina of Time pocket watch from a Nintendo Power catalog years ago
- Anatielle: My Kingdom Hearts 2 poster. <3
- Ndiayne: I have a super princess peach shirt from our nintendo rep that I got while working at gamestop. Cute AND super comfy.
- Saithir: is the resident evil 4 chainsaw controller a merchandise? Then that.
If not, hm, guess the Fallout 3 lunchbox. Maybe. - Eadams2010: Seen: replica guns from video games!
- Kenichan: Playstation’s Pocketstation, where you could upload Street Fighter Alpha 2 and FF8 save data into it.
- Nibuca: Nostromo N52 (TE). Made of EPIC and WIN!
- StoppableForce: It’s ridiculously outdated but I love my FFXI Vana’diel Clock. I mostly use it to time laundry these days.
- Gnomaggedon: Nostromo N52 (TE). Made of EPIC and WIN!
- NinthBatter: probably has to be Valve’s Half Life head-crab hats
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