• Getting Smarter: Nintendo Brain Age creator turns down $11 million
    Thursday, February 7th, 2008

    The brains behind Brain Age, Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, may be smart but he’s turned down about $11 million in royalties form Nintendo. The money is his share of the $22 million in royalties Nintendo owes Tohoku University for the technology in the 17 million copies of Brain Age (Brain Training outside of North America).
    After years […]

    PC Gaming is Dead: 2007 Sales Numbers (unless you play MMO)
    Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

    Only one PC game in 2007 sold over a million units (and it’s name is Warcraft). The PC game take of $911 million is a lot of money, but console games had a record year and total sales of $17.94 billion. Another comparison, the #10 console game sold twice as many units as the #2 […]

    Better Games, New Consoles Drive Record Games Sales This Year
    Saturday, December 15th, 2007

    Sweet games like this year’s Maxim top 10, plus those left off like Rock Band, and the always-out-of-stock Nintendo Wii have fueled a record year of game sales. New sales numbers from NPD Group put the console and game total for November at $2.63 billion. The total for 2007 is now $13.1 billion. Even without […]