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Grand Theft Auto 5 the bestselling game for September in U.S., and Wii U sees a 200 percent increase in sales after price cut. Read More »

US NPD hardware sales results have been released, showing Microsoft’s Xbox 360 doing over 1 million in sales. Do we even need Durango? Total sales results for PS3, PS Vita, Wii U and the rest can be found below the break. Read More »

Cowen analyst Doug Creutz has revealed that Diablo III sold 1 million units in the U.S. for the month of May, while both Max Payne 3 and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier sold 400,000 each. That’s 200,00 per game less than the firm was expecting. Despite this, both games were among the bestselling titles in the month of May in the ... Read More »

The NPD has made known that come June 2012, it’ll start including Walmart game sales in its monthly report. This should bode well for the industry, as Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world, and keeping its game sales out of the NPD’s monthly report simply didn’t make sense. We asked the firm’s David Riley about this very issue ... Read More »

Is the gaming industry in trouble? Not by a long shot, but July 2011 represented the worst month the industry’s seen since October 2006. What went wrong? Many things, get the full quencher below the break. Read More »

Sony’s boasting PS3 all about today, and with good reason. Sucker Punch’s inFamous 2 demolished the competition selling almost 400,000 last month, and the Uncharted 3 beta surpassed 1.5 million unique players. It’s smiles all around. Read More »

It’s that time again. NPD’s released its software numbers for the month of March, and what we see is a game that failed terribly in the sight of gaming’s web, beat another that reviewed magnificently. Pokemon White and Black took the first and second spots respectively, while Homefront managed a respectable third place, Dragon Age II fourth and Call of ... Read More »

Every month, the NPD releases hardware and software data compiled through various sources on the gaming industry, but the company’s not actively seeking the industry’s digital sales results, hence leaving tens of millions of dollars unaccounted for. EA’s Tiffany Steckler who’s the corporate communications executive at the company, has said that the situation is rather misleading, stating “Using NPD data ... Read More »

January’s NPD results are now available, and looking at the data sent to us by the group’s David Riley, we realize a few things: First, shooters will make you money, dancing games are still popular, and a good horror experience will never die. Find the top ten selling games for the month of January in the U.S. below the break. Read More »

It’s a no-brainer, really. Call Of Duty: Black Ops left all else in its dust last year, and get this: Even Modern Warfare 2′s amongst the best selling of 2010. Amazing. Read More »

Sony’s responded to the NPD Group’s December 2010 sales results, and while the electronics company failed to release PS Move sales numbers, it did spoke of the many titles available now for the device, and how, in not so many words, 2011 is the year of the PS3. Read More »

Kinect is proving to be mighty successful for Microsoft. Not only did the peripheral sold 8.8 million units in 60 days, it’s also directly affecting Xbox 360 sales, helping the console leave Sony’s PS3 in its dust last December, with sales up 88 percent over the PS3. Read More »

My goodness. In the month on December alone, Microsoft sold almost 2 million Xbox 360 units in the United States according to the NPD, completing what was the Xbox’s division biggest year thus far. Read More »

Pachter is at it again, the Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst’s issued hardware sales estimates for the U.S. for the month of December, claiming Microsoft’s Xbox 360 outsold Sony’s PS3 by more than a two-to-one margin. Read More »

Say what you will, but in North America, the Xbox 360′s experiencing massive momentum, especially with the redesigned 360 S, and the advent of Kinect will only help. Also, Nintendo’s been a decline, while Sony’s PS3 Move bundle experienced a 15 percent rise last month. Read More »