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Call Of Duty Sales Slow Right Down, Modern Warfare 3 Down Year Over Year

Analysts at Macquarie Equities have stated that sales of the incredibly popular Call of Duty series are beginning to slow down while analysts over at Macquarie Equities say that Modern Warfare 3 volume sales are behind by around 4.2 percent. It seems casual gamers are instead finding entertainment elsewhere. Analysts at PiperJaffray believe that the Call of Duty fan [...]

Published by sickr on April 15th, 2012 at 01:04 pm
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Portal 2, Arkham City and BF3 clean up at 2012 BAFTA game awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts had its annual awards ceremony for excellence in gaming last night (or earlier today, depending on your proximity to England), with Portal 2 winning the BAFTA for Best Game. Also in contention for that prize were Batman: Arkham City, which ended up winning the BAFTA for Action, [...]

Published by Jordan Mallory on March 17th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
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Amazon’s top-selling physical and downloadable games of 2011

Amazon certainly leveled up its business strategy in the video game space in 2011, dropping competitive deals throughout the year in both the physical and digital distribution categories. We got in touch with the online retailer to find out about its top-selling titles for the year. The company informed us that, naturally, Call of Duty: [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on January 13th, 2012 at 09:01 pm
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NPD 2011: Sales across industry between $16.3 and $16.6 billion, Ubi tops software sales list

Assassination and dancing has proven to be a lucrative mix, as Just Dance 2 and 3 and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations helped Ubisoft to lead this year’s best seller’s list with three entries. That’s according to the NPD Group, which also estimates the video game industry’s profits, comprising “new physical video and PC games, used games, [...]

Published by Ben Gilbert on January 13th, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, FIFA 12 top UK sales in 2011

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was easily the best-selling game in the UK for 2011. Data released today by UKIE (compiled by Chart-Track) has Activision’s behemoth franchise grossing a record-breaking £83 million in sales during its first week, which also turned out to be the biggest week of video game sales ever in the [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on January 11th, 2012 at 02:01 pm
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FIFA 12 kicks off year atop UK charts, Zumba returns

The first week of 2012 sees massive double-digit percentage drops across Chart-Track’s UK sales top ten. FIFA 12 remains at the top, with a 63 percent drop, as Battlefield 3 takes second, despite it being hit with the exact same decrease in sales. Modern Warfare 3 moves into third and Just Dance 3 maintains fourth, [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on January 9th, 2012 at 07:01 pm
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FIFA 12 finishes year atop UK charts, Old Republic slides way down

Chart-Track’s UK sales chart for the week ending January 31, 2011, is up, showing the family-friendly footie time (don’t go to a dark place, don’t go to a dark place!) of FIFA closing out the year as champion. Nearly every game in the top eight held its position from the Christmas Eve list, except for [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on January 3rd, 2012 at 01:01 pm
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Old Republic debuts in 10th, FIFA runs up UK charts before Christmas

Chart-Track’s UK sales list for the week leading up to Christmas Eve had FIFA 12 rallying, with sales up 34 percent, to score a first place finish. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 moved up one spot replacing Just Dance 3, which despite having a seven percent increase in sales, simply couldn’t maintain its position [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on January 2nd, 2012 at 02:01 pm
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Old Republic debuts in 10th, FIFA runs up UK charts before Christmas

Chart-Track’s UK sales list for the week leading up to Christmas Eve had FIFA 12 rallying, with sales up 34 percent, to score a first place finish. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 moved up one spot replacing Just Dance 3, which despite having a seven percent increase in sales, simply couldn’t maintain its position [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on January 2nd, 2012 at 02:01 pm
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Modern Warfare 3 and the rest of the CoD family on sale today at Amazon

Many, many people have already picked up copies of this year’s Call of Duty entry, Modern Warfare 3. This we know. But what about those of you hoping against logic that the game — one of the fastest selling media properties of all time — would drop its price relatively close to launch? Bizarrely, your [...]

Published by Ben Gilbert on December 12th, 2011 at 09:12 pm
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Activision trumpets $1 billion for Modern Warfare 3

As Bobby Kotick nestles himself between a cloud masquerading as a mattress and a gold-trimmed white goose down duvet (the goose has the gold trim, not the duvet), his mind can gently waft into unconsciousness, accompanied by the pleasing crackle of bloggers typing “one billion dollars.” Activision announced the enormous sales figure for Modern Warfare [...]

Published by Ludwig Kietzmann on December 12th, 2011 at 03:12 pm
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November NPD: A new record, with Xbox 360 joined by MW3 and Skyrim on top

It’s a little good, a little bad with this year’s November 2011 NPD results. While “unit sales grew for console hardware, as well as console, portable, and PC software,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier warns that “a decline in average retail price in all categories” besides portable hardware resulted in dollar sales that were flat compared [...]

Published by Christopher Grant on December 9th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
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CoD: Modern Warfare 3 not moving, Mario Kart 7 debuts strong on UK chart

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, with a slight sales gain of 2 percent, remains king of the hill for a fourth week in a row on Chart-Track’s UK sales chart. Stalwart chart champion FIFA 12 pushed past Assassin’s Creed: Revelations into second, but remained 55,000 units behind Modern Warfare 3. The big mover and [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on December 5th, 2011 at 01:12 pm
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Modern Warfare 3 maintains top of UK charts for third week

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn’t going anywhere on the UK charts, as the biggest entertainment launch in history holds its position at the top, despite a 41 percent drop in sales. MW3 had an 87 percent drop in sales last week, so the über-blockbuster clearly has a sales cushion to play around. Assassin’s [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on November 28th, 2011 at 02:11 pm
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Japanese charts: Modern Warfare 3 bests high-profile regional favorites

Media Create has released its weekly sales chart, and Modern Warfare 3 topped the software chart, besting high-profile Japanese debuts Ni no Kuni and One Piece Gigant Battle The shooter’s debut moved 180,372 units on PS3 and 30,467 units on Xbox 360 for a combined 210,839 units sold. Last year, Black Ops debuted with 159,201 [...]

Published by Stephany Nunneley on November 23rd, 2011 at 06:11 pm
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N-Space Says ‘Kotaku Can Suck It’ And Criticizes Official Nintendo Magazine In Response To Poor Modern Warfare 3 Reviews For Nintendo DS

N-Space, the developer charged with making the Nintendo DS version of Modern Warfare 3 has slammed popular online gaming site Kotaku and The Official Nintendo Magazine for publishing disparaging reviews about the game. The official Nintendo Magazine of UK gives CoD:MW3:D a 70%. Apparently we get marked down for “not being ready to take the [...]

Published by sickr on November 19th, 2011 at 01:11 am
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Amazon: Buy One, Get One 50% Off on MW3, Skyrim, Arkham City, Uncharted 3, and more

Amazon calls this deal “Buy One, Get One 50% Off” but we prefer to think of it as “Get Two $60 Games for Just $45 Each.” Normally, these kinds of deals have perhaps one marquee title playing the role of siren, calling your wallet-shaped ship to its rocky, mediocre-game covered shores; however, this deal is [...]

Published by Christopher Grant on November 15th, 2011 at 06:11 pm
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Modern Warfare 3 nukes UK charts, many seek refuge in Skyrim

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the game that sold 6.5 million copies on its first day, couldn’t help but be at the top of the UK charts last week (filed under: duh!). In the region, MW3 had sales that put it on even footing with last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops in terms [...]

Published by Alexander Sliwinski on November 14th, 2011 at 02:11 pm
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UK charts: MW3 top, first-week sales less then Black Ops

Modern Warfare 3, unsurprisingly, has gone top of the UK charts following its $400 million launch last week. What is surprising, however, is that its first week sales are down by 1.5 percent on last year’s Black Ops. Revenue is up by 1.6 percent, though. The particular week between November 6-12, according to ChartTrack, has [...]

Published by Johnny Cullen on November 14th, 2011 at 09:11 am
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MW3 sells 6.5 million units in US, UK within first 24 hours

Activision’s announced Modern Warfare 3 made $400 million in its first 24 hours in the US and UK, selling 6.5 million units in the process. The sales figure is up 900,000 units on last year’s Black Ops, and is a million more than what Battlefield 3 did in its first five days. The $400 million [...]

Published by Johnny Cullen on November 11th, 2011 at 01:11 pm
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