Angry Birds downloads soar past 100 million across all platforms

Angry Birds downloads soar past 100 million across all platforms
During a panel at this past weekend’s South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Rovio exec Peter Vesterbacka told attendees that the company’s bird-flinging pig terrorizer, Angry Birds , has been downloaded over 100 million times. As Vesterbacka revealed during GDC, more than 30 million of those downloads have been of the game’s freemium Android version, and both the lite and paid …

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PRESS RELEASE: Consumers Snap Up 1.5 Million Video Game Systems During Black Friday Week

PRESS RELEASE: Consumers Snap Up 1.5 Million Video Game Systems During Black Friday Week
Value-Minded Shoppers Purchase 900,000 DSi Systems and 600,000 Wii Systems REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 29, 2010 – When confronted with a wide range of Black Friday retail options, U.S. holiday shoppers again turned to Nintendo. Nintendo sold 900,000 combined units in the Nintendo DS™ family of systems and 600,000 Wii™ consoles between Sunday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 27, according to the company’s …

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Consumers Snap Up 1.5 Million Nintendo Video Game Systems During Black Friday Week

Consumers Snap Up 1.5 Million Nintendo Video Game Systems During Black Friday Week
When confronted with a wide range of Black Friday retail options, U.S. holiday shoppers again turned to Nintendo. Nintendo sold 900,000 combined units in the Nintendo DS™ family of systems and 600,000 Wii™ consoles between Sunday, Nov. 21, and Saturday, Nov. 27, according to the company’s internal sales estimates.

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Mobile gaming binge continues; Intel, The9 invest $8 million in Aurora Feint

Mobile gaming binge continues; Intel, The9 invest $8 million in Aurora Feint
Intel Capital and The9, a Chinese online game company, have invested a combined $8 million in Aurora Feint, a mobile social gaming platform.

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Video game designer-turned-space traveler awarded $28 million by jury

Video game designer-turned-space traveler awarded $28 million by jury
By Eriq Gardner Famed video game designer Richard Garriot has just taken one hell of a trip. Two years ago, the man behind blockbuster role-playing games Ultima and Tabula Rasa spent $30 million of his own money to be a…

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gWallet: 1.7 million minutes of video served in social games

gWallet: 1.7 million minutes of video served in social games
Social gaming is beginning to look like a hot ticket for video publishers and brands. Why? According to social media monetization firm gWallet more than 1.7 million minutes of video ad campaigns were served to social gaming consumers in Q1 2010. What is driving the consumption of video in social games?

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