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Video game social network and stat tracking service Raptr has announced the winners of its 2011 Most Played Games awards, and while overall gamers spent more time playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 than any other 2011 title, it's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that walked home with the Most Played Game of 2011 award. How's that work? More »
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In today's 75 percent accurate edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter BattleMoose87 wonders if we aren't giving first-person shooter statistics more weight than they deserve. Are we? More »
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So much for Portal 2 being too short. Fans of Portal 2 may be surprised to learn that a lot of people who own the game aren't playing it very much. More »
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OK, hold onto your hats and duct tape your socks on, Sony Computer Entertainment of America tells us that Gran Turismo 5 is going on sale in North America on Nov. 24. More »
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Print this off, stick it to the back of your bedroom/toilet door, and get to memorising. Occasional questionable figure aside, this will definitely help you win fights on the playground/at the pub. More »
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While game publishers look to retail sales figures to gauge the success of the holiday season, let's take a look at how our favorite games and consoles performed in the shady back-alleys of eBay's 2009 holiday grey market. More »
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An interesting feature over at Gamasutra looks at the percentage of players who actually achieve a perfect Gamerscore in popular Xbox Live titles. Do you play until the last point is awarded? More »
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The increased popularity of car surfing corresponds to the release of the Grand Theft Auto games and YouTube videos showing the activity, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. More »
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Interested in finding out what titles have gamers Tweeting like crazy? Look no further than Tweet My Gaming, a new website from the creators of GamerDNA. More »
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MTV Games and Harmonix are likely overwhelmingly pleased to announce that North American sales of Rock Band have passed the $1 billion mark over the past 15 months, according to the NPD group. More »
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Eurogamer recently had the chance to visit Quantic Dream to see their new PlayStation 3 adventure Heavy Rain in development, and they returned with some interesting statistics on the eagerly anticipated title. More »
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The NPD Group (those same people who bring us all the neat sales numbers) just published their annual results charting how much of the US actually plays video games. And yeah, we already gave away the punchline in the headline. More »
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With Halo 3 just around the corner, Microsoft has released a boatload of statistics regarding the state of Xbox Live and the 360, perhaps as a way to take a snapshot of before and after the game's gigantic launch week. The stats cover everything from Xbox Live play hours (3.2 billion, or 376,000 years), Xbox Live content downloads (over 290 million), games sold per console (6.3 on average), and just oodles more. The most interesting thing to me is that before this console generation, most of these stats didn't even apply to gaming consoles, so aside from being a big opportunity for Microsoft to pat themselves on their backs, it's an interesting look at how the face of console gaming has changed over the past few years. Hit the jump for all the numbers! More »
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Nielsen GamePlay Metrics, a new system from the company that introduced the all-important television tracking system back in the 1940's, has just released their first batch of data on PC game usage for the month of June, and who came out on top may astound you. Okay, so it completely won't astound you that World of Warcraft came out on top with an average of 17 hours played a week, doubling that of its closest competitor, Halo: Combat Evolved with only 8.5 hours played per week. As you can see from the chart, most of the titles are more enduring, older games than hot new PC titles. An interesting look at PC game usage, though I suggest they save the table template with WoW at the top just to make things easier on themselves for the foreseeable future. More »
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Wipe them tears away from your eyes. Halo Beta may be over, but you know what Robert Smith always says, "Boys don't cry". In honor of how well you're all taking this, let's take a look at the numbers that you racked up for Bungie and Microsoft. According to their reports, an excess of 820,000 unique participants spent more than 12 million hours playing Halo. Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, had this to say about the numbers: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268437&view=rss&microfeed=true Ah, The Red Ring of Death. I've had it, Luke's had it, if you were cool, you would have it too. So how many people in the world are as cool and awesome as us? It's like questioning how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop - The world will never know: More »
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By: Michael Fahey More »
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Who doesn't love the visual representation of user data in pie chart form? I know I do! Especially when that data is user submitted statistical analysis of how Steam users play Valve's newest release, Half-Life 2 Episode 1. Now, nerdy data hounds like myself who previously thought to ourselves "I wonder what the standard deviation for completion time on hard is for users with high dynamic range lighting enabled versus those without?!" and sighed heavily with defeat, knowing we'll never actually know this important information can finally get out of bed and do some intense calculations! More »
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The incredibly useful World of Warcraft site MapWoW.com reports that the University of Washington tops its list of college-affiliated site visitors. The post speculates that Seattle's colossal nerd population (as in: there are great numbers of them, and many of them are huge) makes this a not-unexpected result. More »
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Most parents think their kids play way too many video games, according to a survey commissioned by VTech Electronics. In other shocking news, parents say kids have no respect, listen to crap music and follow way, way too close when driving. More »
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