Posted by Jean Valjean | Posted in Games, Life, News, Technology | Posted on 03-08-2010
After selling a bumper stack of 1.5 million copies in just 48 hours, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is officially the fastest selling strategy game of all time.
According to Blizzard, StarCraft II had already managed to rack up over a million sales in its first day alone, making it the best-selling PC game of the year in just 24 hours. Blizzard says it compiled the figures using a combination of public data, reports from distribution partners and its own internal company records.
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Posted by Jean Valjean | Posted in Games, Technology, business | Posted on 31-07-2010
This week’s charts from Gamasutra, with data taken from July 29th, 2010, find Starcraft II heading cross-platform sales in the United States and Europe.
Data comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded.
PC Sales from Gamasutra follows after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jean Valjean | Posted in Games, News, Technology | Posted on 28-07-2010
The original games were incredibly popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, combining the traditional text adventure format with basic graphics and music. Created by fans who had the intention of giving the game away for free, The Silver Lining caught the attention of Activision’s legal team who issued the developers with a cease and desist order. After negotiations, the C&D [cease and desist] has been officially rescinded, and Phoenix Online has been granted a non-commercial license to release The Silver Lining!
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