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Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service now has 1 million paying subscribers

Cory Gunther, Nov 22nd 2011 Discuss [9]

Today Activision has issued a press release proudly announcing that their Call of Duty Elite paid stat tracking and social gaming service has already reached 1 million premium subscribers. The service reached beta in July and has seen considerable changes but looks to be finally starting to shape up, even after a rocky start plagued with issues and login failures. Read The Full Story

Minecraft 1.0 released, over 240 million logins every month

Paul Fang, Nov 22nd 2011 Discuss [7]

What's this, a game that gets 240 million logins a month that isn't actually named Farmville or World of Warcraft? And was just barely fully released this weekend? That's, drum roll please, the block-building Minecraft for you. Since the official launch of Minecraft’s 1.0 release candidate this weekend, the game has seen an astounding 4000 logins per second, and over 240 million logins every month. If you do some math, that's 240,000 logins a minute, and roughly 14 million logins an hour. Now that's what I call a popular game. And a very smart developer, Mojang. Read The Full Story

Modern Warfare 3 sells record $775 million in 5 days

Rue Liu, Nov 17th 2011 Discuss [7]

Modern Warfare 3, the latest game title in the Call of Duty franchise from Activision, has set a new sales record, selling more than $775 million worth of copies in the first five days. Not only does this figure crush rival EA's Battlefield 3, which had set a record of its own, but it has also managed to outsell all entertainment records including major movie titles. Read The Full Story

Skyrim sells 3.5 million copies in 48 hours

Paul Fang, Nov 16th 2011 Discuss [7]

We knew that Bethesda's Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim would sell well when it came out on its infamous launch date, November 11th, 2011. And now we have the official stats from ZeniMax (Bethesda's parent company)'s CEO himself. 3.5 million copies in 48 hours? You can go ahead and check that box, since Skyrim has reached just those awe-inspiring numbers. We now just have to wait for the first week of sales to finalize in order to see if Skyrim is on track to beat the record currently held by Call of Duty's newly released Modern Warfare 3. Read The Full Story

Sony announces new PlayStation Move bundles for next week

Rue Liu, Nov 11th 2011 Discuss [1]

Sony announced two new hardware bundles for the PlayStation 3 that will be hitting retail stores next week just in time for the holiday season. With all the holiday feasting and gatherings coming up, the bundles will be arriving at a good time, packing in PlayStation Move accessories and titles that will get you dancing or playing sports in your living room to burn off all those excess calories. Read The Full Story

Microsoft may ban Xbox Live accounts playing Modern Warfare 3 too early

Rue Liu, Nov 4th 2011 Discuss [24]

Much excitement surrounds Activision's Call of Duty game franchise with the upcoming Modern Warfare 3 title set to be released on November 8. But somehow, in the hustle and bustle, some retail stores, including Kmart, have accidentally sold the discs early, with one ending up on eBay for more than $1,700. Although purchased legitimately, playing these discs before the release date could get your Xbox Live account banned. Read The Full Story

Battlefield 3 sells 5 million copies in week one, breaks EA record

Rue Liu, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [4]

Battlefield 3, the latest from EA's military shooter game franchise, launched last week and has since sold a record 5 million copies worldwide, generating more than $300 million in estimated revenue. It has become EA's fastest selling title in the the company's 29-year history, outselling the combined week one sales of all previous 17 Battlefield games. Read The Full Story

Assassin’s Creed to hit iPhone and iPad this holiday

Rue Liu, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

Ubisoft has announced that it will be bringing its popular Assassin's Creed game to the iPhone and iPad. But, it's not quite what you'd expect. The iOS reincarnation, called Assassin's Creed Recollection, will be in the form of a real-time strategy board game instead of the open world format we're used to seeing on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Read The Full Story

Sony announces new PlayStation Move bundle with LittleBigPlanet 2 Special Edition

Rue Liu, Oct 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

Ahead of the holidays, Sony has announced a new Special Edition of its popular game title LittleBigPlanet 2 with PlayStation Move support. It's offering the Special Edition game on its own as well as in a bundle that includes the Move add-on and controllers. As announced back at E3 2011, we should be seeing many other popular titles get Move support as well. Read The Full Story

Sony PS3 and PS Move Black Friday bundles leaked

Rue Liu, Oct 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

The special holiday bundles that Sony is preparing have leaked thanks to images of the printed packaging shot by Scream777, who claims to work at Sony's packaging facility. The shots were then posted by SlickDeals and includes both special edition game titles as well as complete gaming bundles for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Move. The deals should hit store shelves in time for Thanksgiving's Black Friday sale. Read The Full Story

Apple’s iOS Game Center may get custom avatars

Rue Liu, Oct 14th 2011 Discuss [8]

Apple may be planning to add customizable avatars to its iOS Game Center. It's something we've long seen with Microsoft's Xbox Live Avatars and Nintendo Miis, but Apple may soon be hopping on the bandwagon. The company has filed for two patents titled "Avatar Editing Environment" and "Personalizing Colors of User Interfaces," revealing the avatar customization interface that is in the works for iOS. Read The Full Story

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Infinity Blade 2 from Epic Games coming December 1st to iOS devices

Cory Gunther, Oct 4th 2011 Discuss [10]

With the iPhone 4S having been updated to the Apple A5 dual-core processor like the iPad 2 features having up to 7x better graphics performance you can bet we’ll be seeing some simply amazing games coming soon. Just for a tease Apple has shown a bit of the graphics prowess we can expect on iOS devices with the A5 with the new upcoming release of Infinity Blade 2.