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StarCraft II Sells 1.5 Million Units in 48 Hours

People like that StarCraft, eh? Thanks to its highly anticipated launch after nearly 12 years of waiting, fans responded to the sci-fi sequel in a big way, accounting for 1.5 million sales in the first two days of availability....

by Sage Knox

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Demon’s Souls Shatters Projected Sales

The numbers are in, and according to a story over at Siliconera, Atlus has a lot to smile about. Many knew that Demon’s Souls was ridiculously awesome. Many also knew it was doing pretty well in the US. In fact, most of u...

by Rob Rich

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February NPDs: Wii Unseated As Top Console, BioShock 2 Doesn’t Sink

February’s NPDs look to be pretty much business as usual: DS was the top seller overall and Wii was the best selling console that… wait, what? The Wii… wasn’t the best selling home console in February? D...

by Rob Thomas

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January 2010 NPDs: Mario Continues Dominance, Mass Effect Shows Strong

Hello again, everyone. It’s the return of another feature we haven’t done in a couple of months – the NPD sales figures! Exciting, huh? Well, we figured since the numbers for January were now out, it would be ...

by Rob Thomas

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Ubisoft Delays Splinter Cell, Adds New Assassin’s Creed to Early 2011

French publisher Ubisoft has detailed their plans for their fiscal year 2010, which begins in April and will wrap up in March 2011. Included in those plans are a two-month delay of Splinter Cell: Conviction (damn you, Ubi!), a ...

by Sage Knox

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Modern Warfare 2 Destroys Multiple Entertainment Records

In what will come as a surprise to no one, Activision revealed yesterday that Modern Warfare 2‘s release has broken several box office records for movies, books, and video games. The game, which came out on the 10th of th...

by Aubrey Klanecky

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October NPDs: The Rest of the Top 20

Well, now that the rest of the October NPD Top 20 list is out, we can see why Brütal Legend didn’t make it into the top 10 – Eddie Riggs was seemingly unable to fight his way past the equally brutal Demon’s S...

by Rob Thomas

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October NPDs: Uncharted Tops Charts, Wii Back on Top

Hah – see what we did there? Because it’s ironic that a game called Uncharted would actually be sitting at the top of the sales charts… I suppose? But anyway, yes – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves snagged the...

by Rob Thomas

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Modern Warfare 2 Crushes (Frags, Destroys) Day One Sales Records

Well, we made it. The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launch has come and gone and society still seems to be more or less intact. And not surprisingly a whole lot of you went out and bought it. As predicted by, well, everyone, ...

by Steve Chowen

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