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Tekken Card Tournament crests 1 million downloads, celebrates with discounts

by Jordan Mallory (Apr 12th 2013 6:30PM)

Tekken Card Tournament was downloaded over a million times (in aggregate) within the first four days of its availability on the App Store, Google Play and Amazon's Appstore for Android, Namco Bandai has announced. That's not counting however many people played the game directly in their browser, ...

SingStar becoming a 'free download,' mic still required

by Mike Schramm (Oct 13th 2012 1:30PM)

Sony's SingStar Viewer app for the PlayStation 3 previously just allowed players to check out SingStar content for free; they'd have to put the game's disc in if they actually wanted to sing along with any of the game's songs. But a new message in the app hints that will be changing very soon. The ...

Draw Something hits 50 million downloads, becomes number one paid app

by Jordan Mallory (Apr 5th 2012 11:15AM)

Draw Something has become the fastest selling mobile title in history, moving 50 million proverbial units since its launch last February -- 13 million of which were accumulated in just the last week. The pictionary-plus-'splosions app from OMGPOP is currently the number one paid app on the iOS App ...

PS Vita game downloads cheaper than boxed copies in US

by David Hinkle (Jan 31st 2012 9:01PM)

Sony is offering a discount for game-starved shut-ins with PlayStation Vitas, Shacknews has confirmed. It shouldn't come as a surprise, since Sony has been talking about doing such a thing for months now, and has followed a similar pricing scheme -- favoring downloads -- in Japan. There's no exact ...

Angry Birds hits 200 million download mark

by David Hinkle (May 18th 2011 8:00PM)

The Next11 Conference, a two-day event where "people discuss and experience how the consumer on the Internet will be evolving," held host to the latest milestone for Angry Birds: a combined 200 million downloads. Admittedly, it's available on everything ... ever. Rovio's Mighty Eagle and Angry ...

Harmonix on the state of post-MTV Rock Band DLC

by Richard Mitchell (May 4th 2011 6:20PM)

In a new interview with Game Informer, Chris Rigopulos, VP of strategy and business development at Harmonix, addresses the state of downloadable content for Rock Band now that the studio is no longer under MTV. Rigopulos said that Harmonix has "effectively severed all ties with MTV, and all ...

Angry Birds downloads soar past 100 million across all platforms

by Ben Gilbert (Mar 14th 2011 12:00PM)

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 ...

Fruit Ninja surpasses 20 million total downloads

by David Hinkle (Mar 3rd 2011 6:30PM)

At this point, Halfbrick's gotta be in talks for a major motion picture deal, action figures, a television show, lunchboxes -- all of it. To say Fruit Ninja is a "success" is an understatement: Halfbrick's Phil Larsen revealed to us during GDC that the game has reached a ridiculous 20 million ...

Angry Birds passes 30 million downloads on Android

by JC Fletcher (Mar 3rd 2011 4:00PM)

Turns out people like Angry Birds -- and free things. The freemium Android release of Rovio Mobile's wing-slinging hit has been downloaded over 30 million times, according to Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka, who is speaking at GDC as part of a Google-run Android monetization panel. He also provided ...