Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Square Enix dishes some Tomb Raider stats]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/17/square-enix-dishes-some-tomb-raider-stats/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/17/square-enix-dishes-some-tomb-raider-stats/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/17/square-enix-dishes-some-tomb-raider-stats/#comments Square Enix dishes some Tomb Raider statsSquare Enix recently shared some interesting stats it gathered on the way gamers are playing Tomb Raider. As of the developer's posting, players have killed 5,294,879 deer and 1,417,750 crabs.

Lara Croft has narrowly avoided death 13,742,891 times and has dodged the attacks of 11,067,764 enemies, killing 147,675,058 enemies with a bow. Roughly 13.95 percent of those kills were with fire arrows (20,601,083 to be exact). Keeping with the game's namesake, Croft has also raided 3,570,956 tombs in total. That's a lot of tombs.

JoystiqSquare Enix dishes some Tomb Raider stats originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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These completely fake infographics give us an important piece of (real) information: that we should expect the studio's trademark humor to shine through in the new game. Or at least in its marketing.

Gallery: Fuse (Infographics)

JoystiqFuse infographics offer all the fictional facts originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>fuseinfographicmicrosoftoverstrikeplaystationps3xboxTue, 05 Mar 2013 10:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Infographic: The Brainsss behind an App Store 'success' that was probably 'a mistake']]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/12/infographic-the-brainsss-behind-an-app-store-success-that-was/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/12/infographic-the-brainsss-behind-an-app-store-success-that-was/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/12/infographic-the-brainsss-behind-an-app-store-success-that-was/#comments Infographic The Brainsss behind an App Store 'success' that was probably 'a mistake'The App Store ecosystem works wonderfully for Apple and the people who purchase and play games on their iPads, iPhones and iPods; the same can't be said for all app developers, Lonely Few's Rod Green told us today. Green and his partner, Yeong-Hao Han, are out thousands of dollars and at least two years of development time on their iOS debut, Brainsss.

It did well, by Apple's standards. By Yeong-Hao's standards, however, the two years he and Green put into making Brainsss an intricate, highly stylized, top-down zombie title was a poor business move.

"From a business point of view, that was probably a mistake, but we really wanted our first iOS game to turn out exactly how we wanted it to be," Yeong-Hao told CBS.

Green and Yeong-Hao are now focused on creating titles with quick turnaround and less complexity, a method the App Store seems to support, if the flood of single-swipe hits is anything to measure by.

Piracy also played a part in the dissemination of Brainsss, but Green said he doesn't see that as a negative: "In short we feel that most of the time these pirates aren't actually lost revenue at all, but more a chance to get the awareness of the game out there. It's the nature of the digital age and something we felt we needed to just accept rather than waste time trying to prevent."

Below: find an infographic breaking down the sales of Brainsss over its first month, along with some more information about user behavior and piracy trends around the world.

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JoystiqInfographic: The Brainsss behind an App Store 'success' that was probably 'a mistake' originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>androidBrainsssinfographiciosipadiphoneLonely-FewmobileRod-GreenYeong-Hao-HanTue, 12 Jun 2012 21:00:00 EST<![CDATA[See how the Vita's first-week sales stack up in this handy infographic]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/04/see-how-the-vitas-first-week-sales-stack-up-in-this-handy-infog/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/04/see-how-the-vitas-first-week-sales-stack-up-in-this-handy-infog/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/04/see-how-the-vitas-first-week-sales-stack-up-in-this-handy-infog/#comments Sales figures can be somewhat hard to interpret on their own; what sounds impressive without context may suddenly seem far less so when seen in relation with other relevant information. It's about the big picture, and now there's an actual big picture to help put the figurative one in perspective.

The above infographic (available in its entirety here) was compiled by VentureBeat using information provided by Statista. It shows how the Vita's first week of sales compares to the those seen by the DS, 3DS and PSP in different regions, as well as globally. For some bonus relevancy, it also ranks the best-selling handheld consoles of all time.

If anything, it proves that tastes vary widely by region, and that relatively low first-week sales (see: PSP sales in Japan) don't necessarily translate to poor lifetime performance. It also reaffirms that infographics are the coolest way to display statistical data.

JoystiqSee how the Vita's first-week sales stack up in this handy infographic originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>first-weekinfographicplaystationplaystation-vitasalessales-datavitaweek-oneSun, 04 Mar 2012 21:00:00 EST<![CDATA[The history of games, told through colors]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/05/the-history-of-games-told-through-colors/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/05/the-history-of-games-told-through-colors/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/05/the-history-of-games-told-through-colors/#comments In our latest installment of Kids These Days Don't Know How Good They've Got It, we'd like to use this incredibly informative infographic to remind all you whippersnappers out there that back in our day, games were dark, blurry and required imaginations. Click on through, you might learn something!

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JoystiqThe history of games, told through colors originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>historyinfographicinfographicsplaystationSat, 05 Nov 2011 19:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Day's worth of Black Ops carnage makes for grim infographic]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/18/days-worth-of-black-ops-carnage-makes-for-grim-infographic/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/18/days-worth-of-black-ops-carnage-makes-for-grim-infographic/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/18/days-worth-of-black-ops-carnage-makes-for-grim-infographic/#comments The graphic designers of Spijkermat figured that reducing 8 days' worth of Black Ops multiplayer stats to a pretty picture of daily averages would make the carnage counts comprehensible (as opposed to the unfathomable figures that scroll across the counter in the game's lobbies). They were wrong.

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JoystiqDay's worth of Black Ops carnage makes for grim infographic originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>activisioncall-of-duty-black-opsinfographicmicrosoftpcplaystationps3statstreyarchxboxTue, 18 Jan 2011 15:20:00 EST<![CDATA[Halo: Reach infographic spills stats for first three months]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/21/halo-reach-infographic-spills-stats-for-first-three-months/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/21/halo-reach-infographic-spills-stats-for-first-three-months/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/21/halo-reach-infographic-spills-stats-for-first-three-months/#comments The Grunt genocide continues, a fact highlighted in Bungie's latest and very thorough infographic for Halo: Reach. 11 billion grunts have met their demise at the hands of a Spartan, representing a full third of all Covenant kills across all gametypes. Between September 14 and December 10, players have logged "just over 1.3 billion games," taking up a collective 24,000 years of actual human time and earning 900 trillion credits.

A stunning 1,500 people have managed to hang on to enough of those creds to nab the "Pestilence" armor effect, while only 1,000 have earned "Inclement Weather." More unbelievable? 320,000 people have won the "Unf-believable" medal, earned by completing 40 kills without dying. We totally would've gotten that one too, had that kamikaze Grunt not popped around the corner at the last minute. Never again!

The infographic can be seen in full just below the break.

Continue reading Halo: Reach infographic spills stats for first three months

JoystiqHalo: Reach infographic spills stats for first three months originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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