Third parties are having a hard time on the Wii, with most of the top 20 all time best selling games coming from Nintendo themselves. But once in a while, a third party Wii game breaks through and sells a few million units, like Just Dance.
According to NPD, Just Dance and its sequel, Just Dance 2, have sold a combined 3 million units in the US, and 2 million in the UK, according to MCV. So it’s of no surprise that Just Dance 3 is in development and expected next year.
Activision and developer Infinity Ward have been in a tough battle over the past year, and since Infinity Ward signed a new deal with EA, things got even more spicy. Now Activision claims that EA has conspired with Infinity Ward to hurt the company, and have now added EA to the lawsuit as a “cross-defendant”. Activision is asking for $400 million from EA, for
“actual and punitive damages from EA and the former executives, including profits Activision would have made but for EA’s interference, costs incurred in rebuilding the affected studio, and damages suffered as a result of delays and disruptions.”
As they said in Bad Boys 2, “This shit just got real”.
Just about every game that comes out of Blizzard has been a critical acclaim. World of Warcraft topped the charts of the MMO world, Diablo I and II have caused strides in their respective genres and StarCraft has spawned nation celebrities in South Korea.
StarCraft 2 looks to be no different with high ratings across the board. However, seeing how the game is currently still $60 perhaps you’re a bit skeptical over whether or not you actually want to buy it.
Luckily, it was announced today that Blizzard has finally released a demo for the game giving players a look at the first 3 campaign levels completely free of charge. Unfortunately, there is no online play so if you want to try that out you’re going to have to buy the actual game.
Grab the StarCraft 2 demo here.
The original Dead Space has been regarded by many as a great survival horror shooter. Not only that, but Visceral Games went on to release a continuation of the series for the Wii dubbed Dead Space: Extraction which has already received positive reviews.
Due to this generally positive reception, Visceral is going on to release Dead Space 2 as I’m sure you’re all aware of.
While the game won’t be out until January 6th, those of you anxiously awaiting it will be happy to hear that the Dead Space 2 demo is now available for download through Xbox Live. PS3 owners need not be discouraged as we’ve also gotten confirmation that the Dead Space 2 demo will be available through the PSN sometime later today.
Anyone get a chance to try it yet? If so, let us know what you think in the comments.
Activision’s Call of Duty Black Ops has sold very well — millions of copies were sold on day one, and it has continued to stay at the top of the charts for many weeks after wards. Now Activision has revealed how much all that adds up to: $1 billion.
This makes Black Ops as the best selling Call of Duty game ever, and it’s only the second entertainment product in history to reach $1 billion this quickly, the other being last years mega hit movie Avatar, according to Activision.
The founders of Harmonix, developers of Rock Band, have sued their parent company Viacom over unpaid bonuses with recent Rock Band games. Harmonix was acquired by MTV and Viacom just before the first Rock Band game became a huge success.
Harmonix founders claim their deal had them awarded a share of the profit of the Rock Band franchise over $32 million, but Viacom did what’s known as “Hollywood accounting”, meaning they shuffled money around and made deals so that Rock Band technically never made a profit. Even though it grossed hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bungie has released an infographic of Halo Reach, showing all the cool numbers the game and its many players have achieved over the past three months.
It shows that over 1.3 billion games have been played, with 33 billion kills in 24 thousand years of gameplay. Yeah, we get it, Bungie, Halo Reach is a popular game. You can find a bigger version of the infographic here.
Are you a PS3 owner who is pissed that the Xbox 360 will be getting the first Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC pack before you? Well fret not as we’ve got some great news for you today. Reports have surfaced that say the PS3 will be getting a Splinter Cell Trilogy release that will see some of Tom Clancy’s greatest games repackaged and remade for use with Sony’s new console.
Unfortunately, other than the fact that Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory will make the jump, we don’t have much more information. Luckily, with 2011 right around the corner, that’s all going to change soon enough.
via joystiq
Call of Duty has become one of the most popular FPS franchises in the world. Not only did Modern Warfare 2 cause massive waves, Black Ops only just recently hit store shelves and was no different. However, now that Call of Duty: Black Ops has been on the market for quit some time, Treyarch is already starting to think towards the future. And by the future I mean a DLC map pack dubbed First Strike.
Confirmed by Microsoft’s own Major Nelson, the First Strike Black Ops DLC pack will be hitting on February 1st exclusively for the Xbox 360. According to Nelson, this pack will focus mostly on multiplayer but will also include a single map for use with the game’s popular zombie mode.
Like I said above, the First Strike DLC pack will be hitting first for the Xbox 360 with the PS3 version coming at a later date.
via majornelson
Well, this comes as no surprise to many: the Humble Indie Bundle 2 has surpassed $1 million in revenue since they started, and are currently at $1,182,414. Not bad, considering gamers can pay whatever they want for the bundle, even if it’s just 1 cent (the average is just over $7). The bundle includes the games Braid, Machinarium, Cortex Command, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans.
I addition, the bundle is now redeemable on Steam as well — on the download page, you can get a key to redeem your games on Steam and Desura as well.
