Tag Archives: software
Wed, Oct 31, 2012 | 19:32 GMT
Steam Greenlight: next batch of titles to be announced in November
Valve has announced that the next wave of titles to be released through Steam Greenlight will be revealed on November 30.
Tue, Oct 02, 2012 | 20:15 BST
Software development titles launch on Steam
Valve has announced various Software titles have launched via Steam, which marks a “major expansion to the platform known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.”
Wed, Aug 08, 2012 | 22:01 BST
Steam to begin selling non-games software
Valve has confirmed that its Steam service will begin making non-games software available on September 5.
Tue, Jul 20, 2010 | 15:53 BST
NPD: Nintendo dominates the top 20 software chart
NPD has released the top 20 software sales chart for June 2010, and games for Nintendo systems destroyed the competition, with the largest percent of titles on the list.
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 | 10:29 BST
NPD May 2010: RDR clears 1.5M, Nintendo dominates hardware
NPD has released May sales figures for the US, showing the third best-selling May on record after 2008 and 2009 and some monster sales for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption.
However, the industry as a whole was down 10 percent for the month year-on-year.
Thu, Apr 02, 2009 | 14:35 BST
Japanese games industry see sales shrinkage in 2008
Famitsu’s published its Japanese sales figures for 2008, clearly showing an industry in decline.
Hardware and software sales combined were worth ¥552.42 billion in 2008, compared to ¥676.95 billion in 2007.
Hardware sales fell from ¥317.47 billion in 2007 to ¥231.52 billion last year.
Software sales from ¥359.58 billion the previous year to ¥320.91 billion in 2008.
DS was the best selling hardware in Japan last year, shifting 3,983,205 units. PSP came next with 3,230,563 consoles sold.
Wii sold 2,257,575 units, and then came PS3 999,903 machines sold.
Xbox 360 moved 398,633 units, nearly double its 2007 sales.
Lots more on Kotaku.
Thu, Feb 05, 2009 | 23:11 GMT
Sega secures new “arcade game machines” trademarks
Sega recently filed two software trademarks in the U.S. and Europe called Ringedge, Ringwide and a third, which is a mysterious logo with rings.
Both Ringedge and Ringwide have been trademarked for “stand alone video game machines, and arcade game machines with built-in screens” according to Siliconera.
Maybe this means we will start seeing more coin-operated machines at our local grocery stores again. Maybe.
More through the link.
Phil Harrison on Xbox One: core gaming, mass market entertainment and longevity