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Fingers Crossed For Green Pixel

In case you haven’t heard yet, Green Pixel, one of Romania’s and Europe’s biggest interactive agencies has just made it to its 13th birthday. In creativity years, that’s a lot! It means that these folks have been delivering amazing ideas to huge companies like Pepsi, FashionDays, Tarom, ING, Vodafone and others for 13 years straight [...]


What Makes Gamers Play?

What is a game anyway besides a virtual thing that we all exploit ? We humans play games to master new skills or just to grant ourselves the satisfaction for something that’s not even obviously or useful. By playing games, we also help cognitive development, especially in childhood; games are the best way to test [...]


Games – Trendsetters And Revenues

Online games are becoming more and more a secure business idea and that thing starts to weight more and more in the entrepreneur community. These games actually take real profit advantage from the boredom of employees and the spectacular evolution of the Internet to produce big money and to make companies that are unknown in [...]


Game Development For The Masses

Online games have been around since the internet was made public for all to use. The concept of online games has been made possible with the Java and Flash developments and the fact that this business is under a booming expansion for the last decade already makes us gamers and regular internet surfers how for [...]


Starcraft 2 Sale Numbers

According to the numbers of Blizzard Entertainment until December 2010, StarCraft II sold 7 million copies. Initially, the developer estimated that it will sell approximately five million copies. At the beginning of August, the developer announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty sold approximately one million units internationaly in just 24 hours of availability. Few [...]


Nintendo Wii sales reach 35 million units in the US

In case you checked out the previously posted news bite you’ll know that February was a good month for Microsoft but you might have caught on to the fact that the Nintendo Wii game system managed to sell 454 thousand units in February. With those sales, the company managed to achieve something not exactly expected [...]


Kinect outsels the Move

The great battle of the motion controllers is heating up pretty heavily. With the official announcement regarding the Kinect shipping over 10 million units since its launch as well as reaching an average of 133,333 units shipped per day, it’s easy to notice that this war is in full movement ( see what I just [...]


Trion developer of Rift – Digital sales are stronger than expected

The developer of recently released Massive Multiplayer Online game Rift, Trion Worlds, shed some light on their view regarding the importance of digital sales of PC games, a sector which, according to a number of analyst firms, is constantly growing. Rift MMO managed to take the 19th place on the UK all-formats retail chart with [...]


Kinect hardware sales reach 10 million units!

One of the newest additions to the motion sensor market ( because by now we can safely speak of a market ) the Microsoft Kinect, has reached 10 million units sold worldwide ever since its release back on the 10th of November last year. According to the Guinness World Records, the motion sensor for the [...]


InstantAction could have been saved according to CEO Lou Castle

For those of you who remember that a few years back InstantAction came into being. It was proclaiming itself as the new “YouTube” of gaming as it would sky rocket by offering free 3D titles to the masses within the comfort of your browser. This was before Quake Live appeared, so back in those days [...]


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