Developer 2D Boy has branded a week-long 'pay what you want' promotion for PC and WiiWare title World Of Goo "a huge success" after the game sold 57,000 copies at an average price of $2.03.The promotion saw sales of the game on Steam up 40 per cent week-on-week, while WiiWare sales rose nine per cent. 2D Boy said that the amount people were willing to pay for the game went up as the days went by before levelling off.
BrutalGamer.com writes:According to the latest review score from FamitsuOriginally posted as internet "white noise" over on Kotaku it has just been confirmed via a congratulatory tweet by Sega that Japanese industry stalwart Famitsu Magazine has dropped a perfect 40/40 figure...
EA announced the Beatles Abbey Road Album for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Over Xbox Live the album will be available from today, over PSN from October, 29th. Wii owners are able, beginning from today, to download different singles from the album.
IncGamers is giving you the chance to ask the Ubisoft development team anything you like, within context of course."That's right gang, we're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Ubisoft and we're giving you the chance to ask, via us, the developers the burning questions."
Gamers will explore a world set one hundred years after the biblical Apocalypse, travelling through expansive dungeons, battling demons and angels and striking deals with unsavoury characters in an epic quest to restore the balance between Heaven and Hell.
DualShockers writes,"In a recent interview with comic book artist, and co-founder of Vigil Games, Joe Madureira, he revealed to us that sequels are being planned for their upcoming title Darksiders. In the interview, Madureira also expressed plans for future Darksiders games to incorporate four-player co-op using the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and shutting down any rumors going around of the upcoming title having any multiplayer options."
Crytpic, makers of superhero MMO Champions Online, has revealed a slew of new items that will be available on Tuesday October 19th, after the scheduled midnight downtime, in the C-Store, their microtransaction store for in-game items. The new items include two entire new costume sets, including a Halloween-themed set, a Beast Cyborg and Samurai one, new emblems, full respec tokens, rename tokens, additional character slots, and additional costume slots.
DefaultPrime.com has all of the Rock Band updates for the week starting October 19, 2009. Artists include Abbey Road, which will be the first downloadable album for the Beetles: Rock Band.
Today BioWare opened up another section of the Mass Effect 2 website. The Arsenal gives fans a look at the weaponry that Shepard and company will be wielding during their next Geth-hunt.
The Veteran system is coming. At last, players who have been long-term subscribers to Age of Conan will benefit from exclusive items and rewards in return for their loyalty. IncGamers posts an exclusive article telling players exactly what they may be entitled to:"The idea behind the veteran items is not to create items that make characters more powerful, but to offer convenience and social items for veteran players to enjoy, either to offer things like better travel options for their characters or to make things a little easier when they start a new alt character."
As ever, Microsoft has released a response to the NPD sales results -- revealing some interesting statistics about Halo 3 gameplay and boasting of third-party Xbox 360 sales of $154 million for the month of September.Selling 1.5 million copies, Halo 3: ODST was the best-selling game of the overall NPD for September 2009; Xbox 360 claimed five of the top 10 titles.According to Microsoft, since ODST's release, over five million unique players have racked up playtime with the two Halo 3 titles since the September 2007 launch of Halo 3. Including the original and ODST, gamers have totaled over 116 million hours of play.
