Last week Imangi Studios surprised everyone with the stealthy release of the Temple Run 2. Being the finely-honed sequel to one of the most popular mobile games in the world, I can't say I'm surprised by massive reaction.
In today's first quarter financial results announcement Activision revealed at more than 30 million Skylanders toys had been sold as of March 31. That's enough toys to feed 30 million plastic-eating children a day for an entire... day.
Amidst the flurry of game developers stepping up to offer aid to Japan in its time of crisis, Korean MMO developer NCsoft has pledged an amount equaling one month of the revenue of its Japanese arm - roughly 6.3 million dollars.
It took ten days for Microsoft's Kinect to hit one million sales. Now Microsoft reveals that the device has sold 2.5 million units in 25 days. This can only mean one thing: Someone is buying 100,000 Kinects a day.
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.
Bethesda Softworks is calling Fallout: New Vegas' launch a success, with more than five million copies shipped since the game's release, with retailers calling for more. Now all they have to do is fix it.
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.
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 than a million users have signed up to drive around in massively multiplayer online racer Need for Speed World, and EA shows its appreciation by removing level restrictions for non-paying customers, making all current and future content free-to-play.
Last week we reported on a Wall Street Journal article that tagged the development cost of StarCraft II at more than $100 million. According to Blizzard, it was a case of right price, wrong game.
According to Take-Two Interactive second quarter financial results, Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption has sold more than 5 million copies since the game's May 18 release. Hold onto your copy, as new downloadable content will be coming out through the fall.
Proving once again that people really enjoy free games, Turbine announces that more than a million new players have joined Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited since its re-launch as a free-to-play game last September.
If you folks really want Sega to stop making fluffy Sonic games that don't revolve around simply running fast, it would help if you didn't buy six million copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Just sayin'.
It's been awhile since we checked in with the player population of the free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms, and Sony Online Entertainment snuck in more than five million additional users while we weren't looking.
EA is dropping a huge portion of the Dante's Inferno advertising budget this Sunday with the company's first Super Bowl commercial, hoping to capture the massive cross-section of football fans familiar with the work of Dante Alighieri.
Forza Motorsport 3 has sold more than a million units worldwide, and Turn 10 celebrates by selling you even more in the form of the Hot Holidays car pack.
In just over a month since the release of Star Wars Galaxies Chronicle Master mission creation tool, fans have created more than three million pieces of interactive Star Wars fiction.
Facebook users have been clicking on the "Become a Fan" button on Activision's Guitar Hero page like crazy, making it the first video game franchise to gather more than a million Facebook fans.
More than 2 million players have signed up free-to-play online shooter Battlefield Heroes, and EA celebrates with the free "Heroes of the Fall" game update, complete with a new map in stylish fall colors.
Nexon America is growing in leaps and bounds, and its greatly due to the success of Combat Arms, the free-to-play online multiplayer FPS, which recently surpassed the three million registered user mark.
