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Xbox Live Arcade revenues up 67 per cent in August

Microsoft has announced that it saw a 58 percent increase in users buying XBLA games during its five-week Summer of Arcade program.

The period saw a number of high profile games released, including Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Braid.

Microsoft further announced that August broke the monthly revenue high by 67 percent.

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#1

pjmaybe
29/09/08, 2:50 pm

Hiking the price of braid and castle crashers worked then :)

#2

Blerk
29/09/08, 2:57 pm

Well, who’d have thought that releasing some games that were actually good and charging more money for them would turn more revenue? It’s amazing!

#3

soong
29/09/08, 4:26 pm

good games = better sales figures

Not surprising at all, really.

#4

furianboy
29/09/08, 4:27 pm

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that when you put out quality people will buy it.

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