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There can be no escape.
Call of Duty: Black Ops sold a whopping 1.4 million copies in its first day on sale in the UK.
That’s the biggest UK day one performance ever it sold 14 per cent more units than Modern Warfare 2 did during its first day on sale.
Let’s put that day one sales figure into perspective. Namco Bandai’s Enslaved has sold 800,000 units worldwide. MTV Games’ Rock Band 3 sold 7386 units for the week ending 30th October in the UK. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 exclusive Fable III sold 129,000 units in the UK during its first week on sale.
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There can be no escape.
Call of Duty: Black Ops sold a whopping 1.4 million copies in its first day on sale in the UK.
That’s the biggest UK day one performance ever it sold 14 per cent more units than Modern Warfare 2 did during its first day on sale.
Let’s put that day one sales figure into perspective. Namco Bandai’s Enslaved has sold 800,000 units worldwide. MTV Games’ Rock Band 3 sold 7386 units for the week ending 30th October in the UK. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 exclusive Fable III sold 129,000 units in the UK during its first week on sale.
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I proton my suit and space hat.
We told you yesterday that the noob edition of EVE Online was coming to Europe. Today, Namco Bandai has given the Commissioned Officer Edition a firm date: 3rd December.
You can buy it from GAME, Play, or Amazon.
Play is cheapest at £9.99, although the date is mistakenly entered as March 2011. Amazon is next best at £14.99. GAME is most expensive at £24.99.
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Boasts Warren Spector.
A confident Warren Spector reckons Epic Mickey is the best-looking Wii game ever.
Take that Super Mario Galaxy 2 and House of the Dead: Overkill.
“I think this is the best-looking Wii game ever. I think graphically it hits a bar that the best Disney stuff has to hit,” Spector told MCV.
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THQ: “This builds our brand at no cost to us.”
The Saints Row film will be formally announced next month.
But the plan to have the movie release at the same time as Saints Row 3 – set for launch some time before March 2012 – is in a state of flux.
“I’m not going to comment on their timing,” THQ CEO Brian Farrell told Gamasutra”. “I can’t speak for the people in Hollywood. [But] this builds our brand at no cost to us.”
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Owners trying to sell Torque engine.
InstantAction, the company behind the InstantAction.com streaming games technology and the InstantJam Facebook game, has shut down.
Formerly known as GarageGames, InstantAction was also responsible for the Torque game engine, which boss Eric Preisz has said the company is looking to offload.
“Today, InstantAction informed employees that it will be winding down operations,” Preisz posted on the Torque website.
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40% of that time spent on non-gaming services.
Gold subscribers spend on average three hours a day on Xbox Live, Microsoft has claimed.
40 per cent of that time was spent using non-gaming services such as Last.fm, Dennis Durkin, COO and CFO of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, told the BMO Capital Markets Annual Digital Entertainment Conference (as reported by Joystiq).
More than half of Xbox Live’s 25 million users are paying subscribers. “Those are very, very engaged customers, which is a good business,” Durkin said.
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Let’s go round again.
Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has tweeted that a Gran Turismo 5 date announcement is imminent.
“It looks like the release date is about to be announced,” he wrote on Twitter according to Andriasang’s translation.
Gran Turismo 5 has been firmly dated only once before, at E3 this year, when PlayStation 3 platform holder Sony said to expect it on 3rd November, but the release was delayed last month.
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Take-Two has 2011 release planned.
That networked version of Civilization that Sid Meier has been labouring over – it’ll be out next year.
Things had blown cold on the project until interim Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned a 2011 release date during a BMO Capital Markets conference watched by Joystiq. Zelnick went on to say we’d see the game “relatively soon”.
The Sid Meier’s Civilization Network page on Facebook links to the article and and tells us to watch that space for more information.
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Kill that lag.
Treyarch’s improving gargantuan phenom Call of Duty: Black Ops with a string of updates.
An update for the PC version promises a “performance improvement” for dual and quad core systems.
Lag seems to be the biggest bugbear among fans. Has the update helped?