In an official press released issued today, Microsoft India acknowledged that the Xbox Originals service, as well as the free "LIVE is 5ive" Xbox LIVE Arcade game will be available for India as well, in addition to detailing that the Xbox Originals will be anywhere between 4 GB - 7 GB in size and that they're expecting Xbox LIVE users to jump to 10 million by June 2008.
Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson says new version of Nintendo's portable complete; holiday release torrent creating retail woes.
Activision and video game advertising network Massive, a subsidiary of Microsoft, have announced that Activision titles Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Tony Hawk's Proving Ground have been added to the Massive Network, allowing in-game advertising to be updated in real-time.
There are early indications that Guitar Hero III has had a significant impact on record sales for bands featured in the game.
One industry watcher says the increasingly crowded shooter market is falling victim to some significant sales cannibalization among top-tier titles.
Reports have been flying across the web claiming that Guitar Hero III for the Nintendo Wii plays in mono sound only. If true, this could be a huge disaster for Activision and Nintendo. Guitar Hero III is supposed to support Dolby Pro Logic II quality sound.
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, the latest version of the popular video game, comes complete with a mock Gibson guitar as its controller and more than 70 songs - with more available to download. Players can strum their way to virtual legend status by
"Call of Duty 4, which was released two days ago by Activision, appears to be in extremely high demand and is sold out across the board. We've checked with a wide range of retailers (Gamestop, Wal-Mart, Target), and only pre-orders are being satisfied-stores are otherwise sold out of the title," said Nollenberger Capital Partners analyst Todd Greenwald.
Major Nelson has just reported that the first two Guitar Hero III downloadable content packs have been released on Xbox Live Marketplace worldwide. Both pack contain three songs of either Velvet Revolver or Foo Fighters. Both packs cost 500 Microsoft Points each, which is roughly $6.
It sounds like we're not the only ones who love Guitar Hero III. After an extremely positive financial report yesterday that cited the new Guitar Hero release as a primary source of Activision's fortunes, the publisher let us know just how much today. In its first week of release in North America, Guitar Hero III has sold more than $115 million, marking it as the largest launch in its over 20-year history.
Guitar Hero III is already a huge success, having sold over $100 million of product on Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, and PS2 during its first week of release. Sales probably won't be too shabby when it releases on PC and Mac next week, either.
The Guitar Hero franchise continues to produce for game publisher Activision, accumulating $100 million in North America since its launch on Oct. 28th.
The first downloadable content for Guitar Hero III has been revealed by a fan at the ScoreHero forums who accidentally made the discovery.
PSN@Home is having a Free to enter Give-away for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) with the guitar. All you have to do to enter is be a member of psnathome.com and you are automatically entered. Although if you have not been on the website for the past week and you are picked we will pick someone else.
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade, full versions purchased this week. The arcade list is based on full versions purchased. Here are the top 3 for each charts, see the source for the complete top 10 list.
The Bitbag writes, "Eager to get a preview of what's on the companion pack? Well check out these newly released videos of the companion pack footage."
Someone got their hands on the songs early... a forum poster at www.scorehero.com has noticed that there are some songs on the Xbox Live Leaderboards that aren't in the game. Read on!
According to NPD's projection, video game sales in the U.S. will reach a record-breaking $18 billion in 2007, surpassing the $10 billion box office sales projected by The Hollywood Reporter. Halo 3 grossed over $170 million on its release day, far bigger than any Hollywood film ever has, making it the highest-grossing premiere in entertainment history.
Red Octane's president explains that Rock Band "requires more instruments, more people¿ might be too complex for the mass market."