Kotaku: Numbers

I Finished These 28 Video Games In 2011

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:00:00 EST

For the sixth year in a row, I have tallied the number of video games I played in the last year. For the sixth year in a row, it's an absurd amount. More »

What Difference Did Going Free-to-Play Make for DC Universe Online?

Mike Fahey — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:20:00 EST

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We know that DC Universe Online's recent switch from subscription-based MMO to free-to-play added one million subscribers to the game in one week, but what does one million free players mean to the bottom line? How's a 700 percent increase in daily revenue, for starters? More »

There Are Far Too Many Pokémon To Care About Anymore

Mike Fahey — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:20:00 EDT

Remember back when there were 151 Pokémon and you knew everything about each one? Commenter Daemon_Gildas does, and he wants that feeling back in today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »

Just How Popular is League of Legends?

Mike Fahey — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:20:00 EDT

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As the first season of competition comes to a close, League of Legends developer Riot Games celebrates by dropping some incredibly impressive player statistics for the free-to-play online action strategy title enjoyed by more than 1.4 million players a day. More »

Section 8 Gamers Have Fallen 328,924,042,920 Meters (And Other Crazy Game Stats)

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EDT

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In 11 weeks, players of the PC and Xbox Live Arcade shooter Section 8: Prejudice have air-dropped their super-soldiers and machine-gunned their friends, many, many times. All virtual. All for fun. More »

World of Warcraft Suffers Post-Cataclysmic Drop in Subscriptions

Mike Fahey — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:00:00 EDT

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Six months after buzz for the Cataclysm expansion drove World of Warcraft numbers to an all-time high, Blizzard reports the lowest subscription figures for the massively multiplayer game since December of 2008. More »

Call of Duty: Black Ops Gets More Play Than Facebook

Mike Fahey — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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Just imagine how connected we'd be if everyone spent as much time on Facebook as they did shooting each other. Impressive Call of Duty numbers courtesy of Activision Blizzard's first quarter 2011 financial results. More »

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Shatters All Previous Warcraft Records

Brian Crecente — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:41:45 EST

The latest expansion pack for World of Warcraft crushed the last 24-hour sales record set by the massively popular, massively online computer game, selling 3.3 million copies in a single day. More »

Call of Duty: Black Ops Continuing Domination Over Books, Games, Movies, President Bush

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:31:00 EST

Call of Duty Black Ops set a five-day record for getting people to part with their money, according to its creators today. $650 million in copies sold around the world in the span of a work week. More »

Black Ops Opening Day Crushes Avatar, Halo And Everything Else

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:27:55 EST

About 5.6 million people bought copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops in North America and the United Kingdom on Tuesday, when the game went on sale. More »

More Than Two Million Felt The Need For Speed Demo

Mike Fahey — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:00 EST

A new Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit title is bound to get some attention, but more than two million downloads of the demo in two weeks? That's a huge number, and EA has more where that came from. More »

30 Million Accounts And Other Impressive Steam Numbers

Mike Fahey — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:20:00 EDT

What's Steam been doing in the nine months since Valve last released detailed statistics? Adding another five million users and more than 200 new games, for starters. More »

Two Years Later, World Of Warcraft Hits The Twelve Million Mark

Mike Fahey — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:20:00 EDT

In October of 2008, Blizzard proudly counted 11 million World of Warcraft subscribers worldwide. In December 2008 the number jumped to 11.5. Now Blizzard updates the count to 12 million, 22 months later. What took so long? More »

Halo: Reach Was Second-Most Popular Xbox Live Game In Its Launch Week [Corrected]

Owen Good — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Xbox Live's Major Nelson released data on Thursday showing that Halo: Reach was the No. 2 game on Xbox Live in its launch week, trailing only Modern Warfare 2. It had four times as many players as Halo 3. More »

When The Game Comes On, Madden Goes Off

Owen Good — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:20:00 EDT

An interesting little graphic EA Sports sent us today illustrates what most would expect: An actual NFL game crashes Madden NFL's participation numbers. But it still holds on to about 34,000 hardcore users from kickoff to final gun. More »

Madden's Numbers Nudge Higher This August

Owen Good — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:30:00 EDT

Early discounts by retailers such as Amazon and Walmart stoked speculation that Madden's sales were coming slow. EA Sports is projecting a modest increase over what the title pulled last August. More »

Video Game Tracks How Long You Stare At Playboy Centerfolds

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:00 EDT

There are video games that track the calories you burn while playing them. There are games that count the number of virtual miles you race in them. Mafia II tallies how long you "read" its in-game Playboy centerfolds. More »

Analysis Shows Madden's Old Model Goes Out With A Bang

Owen Good — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Raptr, the gaming social network counting more than a million users, examined their gamers' habits with Madden NFL 10 and found gameplay spikes sharply - beyond Christmas-sales levels - about a month before the newest version releases. More »

The Number 20 Is God's Number

Mike Fahey — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Why is the number 20 God's Number? New research has proven that every possible position for the Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. More »

Gaming Surpasses Email In Time Spent Online

Owen Good — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:30:00 EDT

Gaming accounts for 10 percent of time spent online in the United States - overtaking email - according to research by Nielsen, which doesn't sound like a lot but it is the second-leading reason, and one that's growing. More »

Doodle Jump Passes Four-Million Sold

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:40:00 EDT

The iPhone and iPod Touch game Doodle Jump may be one of the hottest paid video games on the planet. One month after passing the three million mark worldwide, the game has now sold more than four million ($.99) copies. More »

Key Bragging Stat: How Your Demo Did

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:00:29 EST

Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is "on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history." It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. More »

Nielsen Tells Us Who Buys Movie Games

Owen Good — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:20:00 EST

Since no one here will admit to buying video game movies - so few rise above the category's shovelware reputation - Nielsen done some research on the demographics most likely to buy titles like Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. More »

NPD Says Half of All Americans are Gamers

Owen Good — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:30:00 EDT

There's probably a lot of solitaire and online bridge-playing padding that, but a new NPD report says 170 million Americans play video games. The U.S. population is 304 million. More »

Online Gaming Up 22 Percent as Console Revenue Down 23 Percent

Owen Good — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:30:00 EDT

ComScore's data by itself suggests that gamers are seeking cheap, if not free, online games in greater numbers. Compared to other metrics, does it mean movement away from consoles? More »

Pachter: Used Games Sales At 100 Million Annually In U.S., Not A Threat

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:08 EDT

Gaming's most-quoted financial analyst shared some unconventional wisdom about used games today. More »

Sony: The PlayStation 3 Pushes More Blockbusters

Mike Fahey — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Sony contends that the PlayStation 3 maintains a higher attach rate for blockbuster games than the Xbox 360, and has the numbers to back up the claim. More »

Funcom Loses Big, Chief Financial Officer Bails

Mike Fahey — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:20:00 EST

The Age of Conan has been rather rough on Funcom, whose fourth quarter financials reveal an operating loss of $23.3 million, possibly prompting the departure of chief financial officer Olav Sandnes. More »

Not So Fast Gaming, DVD Still Pwns You

Brian Crecente — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:40:00 EDT

As Luke pointed out early this morning, the report that U.S. games sales had surpassed DVD sales was bound to be misconstrued. And it was. In fact it's just plain wrong. More »

Age Of Conan - A Million Shipped, 700K Registered

Mike Fahey — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:40:00 EDT

We often talk about the differences between 'sold' and 'shipped' announcements, generally coming to the conclusion that the numbers would be relatively close, but sometimes the gap can be a bit bigger. Early this month, Funcom announced that Age of Conan was about to pass the one million copies shipped mark, which is a lovely milestone to reach and all, but in their latest pat on the back press release they place the number of accounts at "more than 700,000". This means that somewhere between 25-30% of those shipped copies either a) haven't been purchased or b) have been purchased and haven't been activated. More »

Call Of Duty 4 Top Selling Title Of 2007

Mike Fahey — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:18 EST

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare completely kicked 2007's ass. This is the gist of the latest press release from Activision, which pulls out the NPD, Chart Track, and GFK Group numbers showing that not only has the game sold in excess of 7 million copies across all platforms since its release in November, but also wound up selling the most units of any game on any system worldwide during calendar year 2007.

"We're very excited about this achievement especially given so many competitive titles this year," said Will Kassoy, senior vice president, global brand management, Activision Publishing, Inc. "Consumer and critics agree that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best games ever created and further establishes Call of Duty as one of the premier brands in the industry."

While the game came in third in US software sales behind Halo 3 and Wii Play, it turns out the United States is just one of many countries that thinks shooting other people is a worthwhile pastime. Hit the jump for more Activision self-love. More »

Sony Moves 3.9 Million Units Over The Holidays

fdemarco — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:00:00 EST

In yet another press release today, Sony announced that they sold over 3.9 million hardware units over the 2007 holiday season. This number of course, is an accumulation of all gaming hardware sold including the PS2, PSP and PS3 in the time from Black Friday, November 23 to December 31. Here's the breakdown: More »

Casual Gaming Requires Casual Fact Check

Mark Wilson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:20:23 EDT

VH1 Game Break did a little more legwork on a Casual Games Association stat that's been floating around the web, stating that casual (video) gaming is a $2.5 billion/year industry worldwide. But what's that number mean, really? What they offered was this geographical breakdown:

$720 million USA, Europe (includes online games and versions of those online games sold in retail outlets)

The LOST Numbers in HL2

fdemarco — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT

Earlier today I posted about the Lost easter eggs that people have been finding in Half-Life 2, specifically a Dharma Initiative like logo and the mysterious Lost numbers. I put out a call for folks to send in any that they found and Kotakuite, External Gazer got right on and emailed us a picture of the numbers which we did not have before. So there it is in all it's easer eggy glory. If anyone finds any more, be sure to send them our way! More »

Nielsen Tells Us About Gaming

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:30:03 EDT

Ten things I learned at the presentation by Nielsen Vice President Jeff L. Herrmann about their new measuring system for game play. More »

Microsoft: We Pwn Video Downloads

Brian Crecente — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:00:45 EDT

No longer content with kicking ass in the video game sales and downloadable games field, Microsoft shot off a press release today crowing about their successes with downloadable TV shows and movies. More »

Sony: 2 Million PS3s By Year's End, UK ASAP

Brian Crecente — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:46:18 EST

Three days ago Sony Computer of America's David Karraker assured the world that the have fixed all Playstation 3 manufacturing problems and that the company remains focused on getting 1 million PS3s to stores by the end of the year. More »

Analyst: Initial PS3 Shipment 125K to 175K

Brian Crecente — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:00:40 EST

AmTech analyst PJ McNealy guesstimates that Sony's opening weekend shipments for the Playstation 3 were lower than the already lower than expected numbers. More »

Rumor: Crack The Target Wii Code

fdemarco — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:50:32 EST

Some insane mathematician (whom I can only assume works at Target) over on the IGN forums has posted a complicated yet seemingly accurate way to find out how many Wii's your local Target will have on launch day. I will try and explain this as best I can, so listen up. More »