24 May, 2012

It’s a party for Blizzard Entertainment these days, and they’re tossing some confetti around. Today, the studio announced that Diablo 3 sold more than 3.5 million units just within 24 hours of its release. Yeah, 3.5 million in just a 24 hour window. That’s wild. That doesn’t include the additional 1.2 million players who got the game for...

13 May, 2012

The Release Titles of Awesome are kicking off starting this week, and it’s making quite the statement. After a long 12 year wait, fans of Blizzard’s Diablo series will finally get their chance to play Diablo III on their PCs. Your non-gaming friends might want to re-schedule any social time for next year, because they probably won’t be seeing...

12 May, 2012

Will the numbers lie? Perhaps they will, but Capcom has incredible faith with several of their big titles set to release and ship this year. There’s no argument that Resident Evil 6 is going to make a huge impression upon the gaming populace, but there are several dark horses in Capcom’s lineup. How well will Ninja Theory’s DmC fare? Or how...

9 May, 2012

Valve humblebragged today that Portal 2 has sold over 4 million copies and downloads across Xbox 360, PS3, Mac, and PC. No biggie. But it looks like it still has to play catch up with its dad: Portal managed 4 million excluding Steam. I was incredibly late to the party with Portal 2, because it remained pretty expensive (a testament to the game’s quality),...

7 May, 2012

New releases. We all love them, and we all want to try them. This past week, Activision’s Prototype 2 stole the top spots in the sales charts. It’s safe to say that we like blowing up, smashing, and generally destroying things. What can we say, it’s always the fun thing to do. Who likes sneaking around? Sorry Ezio, we still love you, but the...

5 May, 2012

If you thought the highly-anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops II reveal was spectacular, you’re definitely not alone. Amazon revealed earlier this week that day one pre-orders for Treyarch and Activision’s newest military shooter have blown a hole through the roof. Try this one on for size: Black Ops II pre-orders are already at ten times the...

2 May, 2012

Some might argue that the Nintendo Wii was brilliant. Others might say that it ignored core gamers in favor of families. Nintendo’s big boss Satoru Iwata tended towards the latter opinion, and said during an investor Q&A that the company plans to go back to core gamers with the 3DS and Wii U. “The Wii was able to reach a large number of new...

24 Apr, 2012

A surprising turn of events as the last week’s sales charts had many new releases dominating the Top 20. This week, all we see are returning titles taking over the charts, and Kinect Star Wars rules the galax–er, sales numbers. Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii system kept up with the Kinect title, retaining its #2 spot. Assassin’s Creed:...