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Journey is fastest-selling PSN game ever, soundtrack coming April 10

Jordan Mallory — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:30:00 EST

We thought Journey was a very good game, as you may recall, and apparently we weren't the only ones looking forward to its release, as Journey is now the fastest-selling SCEA-region PSN game in all of recorded history. Previously, that honor was held by Sucker Punch's Infamous 2: Festival of Blood.

"We thank you so much for your support, for spending time and money to play our game and for spreading the word about Journey to your dear friends and family," said thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen in a post on the PlayStation Blog. "We have received more letters from fans in the two weeks since Journey's launch than we did for Flower over the past three years!"

Chen also announced that Journey's brilliant score (composed by Austin Wintory) will be available on the PS Store and iTunes come April 10, with a "limited" CD release to follow shortly after.

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Record for lowest-scoring Super Mario Bros. run broken

Jordan Mallory — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EST

You guys are still doing speed-runs? Psh, speed-runs are so 2005. These days, it's all about low-score runs; baffling attempts at calculated badness, wherein highly-skilled gamers do everything they can to do as little as possible.

No one does better at doing poorly than YouTube power-gamer NotEntirelySure, who recently completed the lowest-scoring no-death game of Super Mario Bros. ever, finishing the entire game with a trifling 600 points. As a spectator sport, we think the low-score run has potential, although we're still not sure why our "average-score" runs never took off with the precision gaming community.

[Thanks Gishman!]

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DS Lite breaks DS Lite's single-week UK sales record

Randy Nelson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:20:00 EST

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Business

Uh-oh, we've trotted out the "It Prints Money" image. That must mean DS Lite has sold well for the quadrillionth time; and it has. In this case, it beat its own record in the UK for single-week sales, set this time last year.

MCV reports that the DS Lite was the best-selling system for the week of November 29 to December 6, with UK shoppers snapping up more of the handheld than they have any other games machine in a seven-day period ever.

The site quotes GFK-ChartTrack director, Dorian Bloch, as divining, "We can now assume that if there is still some DS Lite stock in the land in the next couple of weeks, the record will go again." Go, DS Lite, go. After all, your status as the darling of hardware sales may only last until summer 2009.

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Brits blow billions on gaming

Alexander Sliwinski — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:55:00 EST

Filed under: Business

Video game sales in the UK went through the crumpetsphere this year with the citizenry spending £1.52 billion ($3.06 billion USD), a 25% increase from last year. BBC reports there are evidently still two weeks to be added to that 25%, including last week's sales of £87.9 million ($177million USD) in games sales. Maybe the British soccer guys actually do have something to complain about.

We're not exactly sure if the BBC is still talking strictly UK here, but it goes on to report a 33% increase in console sales over last year with 11 million units sold, it also points out that console games now make up 79% of all software sales. We'll believe gaming has taken over the UK when we see the Queen rocking a jeweled DS and talking about Brain Training during her Christmas speech.

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Strong Q1 sales point to less cyclical gaming calendar

Kyle Orland — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:25:00 EST

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business

MCV takes a look at some recent ChartTrack sales data and notes that British game sales for the first few weeks of the new year are up significantly over 2006's already record-breaking first quarter. An interesting little factoid, to be sure, but the true importance comes out in a quote from Eidos UK's Jon Brooke, who told the trade paper that increased Winter sales "prove the industry doesn't need to be so seasonal."

Amen to that. We are sick and tired of publishers clogging up store shelves with big name titles around Christmastime only to leave us with months of nothing once the new year comes around. Fortunately, this trend looks like it might be slowing, with quality releases like WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Crackdown, and MotorStorm filling in the quiet Winter months. It's about time publishers realized that good games will sell no matter what time of year they're released.

[Via Guardian GamesBlog]

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