This week Gavin pokes Mats till he cries, what more do you really need to know?
19 Oct
19 Oct
93 tracks and a Gene Simmons narration didn’t do much for Activision’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock launch. The latest music-rhythm game to fizzle since the sharp decline of sales last year, financial analyst Cowen and Company software figures report the game having sold a paltry 86,000 units in its first five days on shelves. Pitted even against former games in the same franchise or the rival Rock Band series, Warriors of Rock didn’t even garner enough units to make NPD Top 10 software list (included after the jump.)
19 Oct
Becoming a tent-pole of the modern PC gaming market, toe-to-toe with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, Valve’s Steam digital download service has announced the latest milestone it has shattered. The platform, in addition to announcing a 200% sales spike, now boasts over 30 million accounts. The sales spike has come gradually over the past twelve months, with an average year-over-year growth of 178%.
19 Oct
Canada’s University of Calgary in Alberta has announced that the campus will open a research-based video game library next year. To be known as Calgary’s Interactive Digital Media Collection, is claiming to be “the largest collection of video games for academic studies in the nation.” Students will be able to check out software ranging from the late 1970s to the modern era.