2008

April NPD

NPD sales figures for America, the reporting period includes 5 days of GTA IV sales. 714k – Nintendo Wii 415k – Nintendo DS 193k – Sony PSP 188k – Microsoft […]

Sony Playstation 2 outsells Playstation 3

Sony’s full year financial results, for the period ending March 31st, 2008 make interesting reading. During this period they sold 13.73 million Playstation 2s and 9.24  million Playstation 3s. This, possibly, […]

Sega Sammy reports $499m loss. They look more and more like a split up or takeover target, despite what they say. With a chest full of top IP they could be doing […]

The ZX Goldenyears web page about the early days of the industry in Liverpool has stopped working. Luckily it is still in the Google cache. I am copying it here so […]

Game hardware company for sale

Rock Computers are the multiple award winning manufacturer of specialist high power gaming laptop computers based in Warwick, England. Unfortunately one of their employees was a thief and stole £200,000 […]

Investing in games

The video game industry must be one of the most attractive areas to invest  in right now. The business is booming, growing far faster than anyone predicted, as it makes […]