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The9 Counters With World of Fight
April 28, 2009
APRIL 28, 2009 • Having lost the Chinese World of Warcraft contract to Netease, The9 Ltd. has decided to compete with a new MMO of its own design: World of...
Korean Dealers Sell 500K Wiis
April 28, 2009
APRIL 28, 2009 • In the year since the Wii was released in South Korea, retailers there have sold 500,000 units. Wii software has not sold so well, however. The...
Surviving In An Online World
April 27, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3247" align="alignleft" width="375"] Original marketing artwork for Ultima Online.[/caption] April 27, 2009 • DFC Intelligence is releasing a series of reports that deal with emerging models in the game...
GameFly’s Accuses USPS
April 27, 2009
APRIL 27, 2009 • GameFly has filed an official complaint against the U.S. Postal service accusing the latter of discrimination. The accusation is that the USPS manually culls many of...
Empire Interactive Closes
April 24, 2009
APRIL 24, 2009 • U.K.-based Empire Interactive closed its doors after not being able to find a buyer to take over the publisher's operations. Russian publisher and distributor Noviy Disk...
Casual Gaming Comes Of Age
April 24, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3228" align="alignleft" width="375"] A Nintendo DS bundled with Brain Age 2.[/caption] APRIL 24, 2009 • Casual games have been around since the dawn of video games and have been...
App Store Passes 1B Downloads
April 24, 2009
APRIL 24, 2009 • Apple Inc.'s App Store passed the 1 billion download mark, based on 21 million iPhones sold to date. The ratio of purchased downloads to free downloads...
Volvo: The Game
April 22, 2009
APRIL 22, 2009 • Sweden's SimBin Studio's PC racer, Volvo: The Game, is slated for a free downloadable release at the end of May. The sponsored title allows players to...