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 Atari Shows Year End Losses Of $23.6 Million
[06.13.08]
Publisher Atari has announced its fourth quarter and year end results, showing Q4 sales down to $15.3 million and losses at $3.7 million, down from $61.7 million the year prior, as the company ends its financial year with losses of $23.6 million, down from $69.7 million.
XBLA's Review-Based Delisting? The Developer Perspective
[06.13.08]
Following Microsoft's announcement that it would delist some Xbox Live Arcade games with a MetaCritic score lower than 65%, Gamasutra sister site Gamerbytes asked XBLA developers what they thought - fascinatingly different opinions from Metanet, Housemarque, Merscom inside.
Sony Raises PSP Downloadable Prices On PlayStation Store
[06.13.08]
In its most recent update to its PC-accessible PlayStation Store, Sony has raised prices on a number of its downloadable PSP titles an average of $1 to $6, with one game, Sony's
Gangs of London
, increasing by $11.
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Catching Up With Gearbox's Randy Pitchford
[06.13.08]
Texas-based Gearbox both owns the
Brothers In Arms
WWII franchise, and is diversifying swiftly into areas from
Samba De Amigo
for Wii to an
Aliens
FPS - Gamasutra talks in-depth to president Randy Pitchford on challenges, successes.
The Adventurer's Guide to Thievery
[06.12.08]
The 4th Edition of the seminal pen & paper RPG Dungeons & Dragons has just debuted - but why should game developers care? THQ veteran Tom Smith explains what video games can learn - or even 'borrow' - from D&D;'s evolution.
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Monster Hunter 2nd G
Passes 2 Million At Top Of Japanese Charts
Although sales this year during the annual Golden Week series of national holidays did not produce as large a sales bump as is normally expected, the following week of sales has shown the traditional fall across the board.
Capcom?s
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G
on PSP rose back up to number one, but with only 53,000 unit sales. Nevertheless, it passed the 2 million mark this week, with overall sales now exceeding
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
and almost equal with
Wii Fit
.
The highest new entry of the week is strategy role-playing game
Luminous Arc 2: Will
from Marvelous Entertainment, with the Nintendo DS sequel selling 41,000 units on its debut. The second PSP title in the top is Sony?s fifth entry in anime licensed beat? em-up series
Bleach: Heat the Soul
, with 39,000 units sold.
Also new at number six on Wii is what is known in the West as
Battalion Wars 2
, but which in Japan is formally part of the
Famicom Wars
/
Advance Wars
series. Its release delayed considerably from its Western debut it sold 35,000 copies in its first week.
Outside the top ten, the highest new entry at number twelve is visual novel
The Color Blue
from Success on PlayStation 2. The only other new entry is the Xbox 360 version of Starbreeze?s
The Darkness
, published in Japan by Spike, which is new at number twenty-three.
| TW
| LW
| Title
| Publisher
| Format
| Weekly Sales
| | 1
| 2
| Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G
| Capcom
| PSP
| 53,000
| | 2
| 1
| Mario Kart Wii
| Nintendo
| Wii
| 42,000
| | 3
| NE
| Luminous Arc 2: Will
| Marvelous
| DS
| 41,000
| | 4
| NE
| Bleach: Heat The Soul 5
| Sony
| PSP
| 39,000
| | 5
| 3
| Wii Fit
| Nintendo
| Wii
| 35,000
| | 6
| NE
| Totsugeki!! Famicom Wars VS
| Nintendo
| Wii
| 24,000
| | 7
| 13
| DS Bimoji Training
| Nintendo
| DS
| 15,000
| | 8
| 4
| Link no Bowgun Training
| Nintendo
| Wii
| 14,000
| | 9
| 5
| Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS: 7-tsu no Shima no Daibouken
| Namco Bandai
| DS
| 14,000
| | 10
| 8
| Wii Sports
| Nintendo
| Wii
| 10,000
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POSTED: 03.27AM PST, 05/22/08 - David Jenkins -
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