Posts tagged april-2010

April NPD: Sam Fisher's grim month

by Mike Schramm (May 13th 2010 7:30PM)

Apparently everybody was paying taxes last month instead of buying games, because despite analysts' expectations, sales for April were way down. As you can see below, sales dropped out on every single console that NPD tracked during April, with the Wii taking the biggest hit, down 50 percent from ...

NPD: Final Fantasy XIII sold almost twice as many copies on PS3

by Mike Schramm (Apr 15th 2010 7:20PM)

Let's go back a couple of years, to E3 2008. At the Microsoft Press Conference, the company drops the news that Square Enix has agreed to release Final Fantasy XIII simultaneously on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There is much cheering and/or weeping and gnashing of teeth, depending on which ...

Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero: April DLC

by Griffin McElroy (Mar 31st 2010 11:03AM)

Next month's musical lineup for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero is as wide and varied as a kiddie pool full of Sweet 'n Salty Chex Mix, bringing in tracks from Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects, Phoenix, Blur, Saving Abel, and Black Sabbath. However, there's one track in particular that stands ...