Above: BioShock Infinite won Best of Show and every other award it was nominated for
The Game Critics Best of E3 2011 Awards winners have been announced and BioShock Infinite was the big winner. Irrational Games’ third title in the BioShock series won Best of Show, but also won every other award it was nominated for, including Best Original Game, Best PC Game, Best Action/Adventure Game...
Bethesda Softworks has joined the sad but worldwide fraternity whose only membership requirement is to be the victim of hacker-related crimes. The company, whose online arm is enjoying a busy spell courtesy of the recently-published Brink, issued a warning on their blog recently, saying that while credit card numbers weren't compromised, user details and login information may have been accessed and users should change their login details immediately. The group claiming responsibility for the attack has also released data from a recent hack of the US Senate...
HMV has seen its video game market share dip by 16% year-on-year over Christmas. Dire straits? Not so much - music sales are more solid (groan). But this does mean the company is re-evaluating how it sells games, and why customers are going elsewhere. Are you?
Ever-ready to cut through
critical bias and drummed-up presale data, Raptr has released its
Raptr Report for 2011, with data on which games commanded the most
player attention. The report breaks the year's releases down into
categories, calculating total playtime by Raptr's 10+ million users
over launch month, per-player launch-week playtime and launch-month
session length. There's a few surprises in there, but the list's two
standouts are both November releases...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the big
winner at last night's Interactive Achievement Awards (IAAs) in Las
Vegas, scoring a total of five top honors including the coveted Game
of the Year title. Rest assured, the likes of Portal 2, Uncharted 3,
and Super Mario 3D Land were also shown some industry love...
Sometimes, international perception of Australia has us so backwards that we’re thought to ride kangaroos down the street and consider that hat with the corks as the height of fashion. But according to figures detailing Australian and New Zealand game sales for the first half of 2012, the notion of the contrary antipode might be more fact than fiction.
As the PC section at
your local games store continues to shrink, digital distribution services like
Steam continue to prosper. Today, Valve announced that Steam enjoyed its
seventh year of over 100% growth in sales. Is anyone even bothering to buy
boxed copies of PC titles anymore...
More than five million concurrent players made use of Steam over the holiday period, with the platform's peak-time user counts passing the milestone for the first time. New entrants into this fast-growing field will have some catching up to do...
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