Here is the latest sales stats by Gamasutra that shows an upsurge in the seven year old Diablo 2 (!!!) Battlechest sales:
PC
North America: 1. Diablo Battle Chest (Blizzard), 2. World of Warcraft Battle Chest (Blizzard), 3. The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff (EA Games), 4. Spore Creature Creator (EA Games), 5. The Orange Box (EA […]
Looks like another hit for Activision, who has just announced that Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS has sold in excess of 300,000 units in North America in the first seven days since its launch, making it the largest North American launch for the Nintendo DSTM in the company’s history by more than […]
In advance of this weekend’s Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris, the frenzy of speculation around what the company’s “big announcement” would be has increased further with Blizzard’s VP of Design, Rob Pardo, hinting that it might be a brand new title.
In a question and answer session that concluded this year’s GDC Paris, Pardo was asked […]
Treyarch has revealed details on Call of Duty: World at War, previously known as Call of Duty 5. Unlike Call of Duty 1, 2 and 4, which were developed by Infinity Ward, World at War is being developed by Treyarch, the developer of Call of Duty 3, and will return The FPS franchise to its […]
Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith confirmed the development of two new Tony Hawk games during Activision’s quarterly earnings conference on Thursday. The first Tony Hawk game, arriving this year, is exclusive to the Nintendo DS and will introduce “new technologies not seen on the DS.”
It has been reported that publishing giant has canceled its ESA membership and will not have a presence on the upcoming E3 show floor and will hold its own offsite press event on the first night of the conference instead.
“After careful consideration, Activision has decided not to renew its ESA membership for business reasons and […]
Chinese WoW publisher The9 Limited announced today that World of Warcraft recently had a peak concurrency of one million players. The Chinese operator has been handling the Blizzard game in the China region since June 2005. This concurrency number is the highest since the game’s original launch.
IRVINE, Calif. – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its award-winning, subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is being prepared for release in Latin America. The Latin American localization will be based on the existing European Spanish version but will feature entirely re-recorded in-game speech. This new version of the game […]
Today, the executives at Activision can be found rolling in a shameful amount of money and laughing to their hearts content. In its financial report on its fiscal third quarter 2008, Activision claims it has brought in a net revenue of $1.48 billion. That’s an 80% increase over the same period last fiscal year, which […]
Subscriptions to the World of Warcraft MMORPG have surpassed the 10 million subscriber mark worldwide, according to developer Blizzard Entertainment. The game, now more than three years old, has become the most popular massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, taking the top sales spot among PC games around the world in 2005 and 2006. WoW was only […]
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