Square Enix's acclaimed JRPG goes platinum in US and Canada within five days of PS3, Xbox 360 release, becoming fastest-selling installment in franchise history. A day after Final Fantasy XIII's March 9 release for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America and Europe, Square Enix was trumpeting the game's Western sales potential. According to the publisher, the highly anticipated role-play... more.

Electronic Arts' and DICE's shooter opens big, on track to be March's top seller; 2.9 million player hours logged in last day alone. Though it didn't match the huge opening numbers of rival Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is keeping a lot of shooter fans company--2.3 million shooter fans, to be exact. Today publisher Electronic Arts announced that the game has gone do... more.

LucasArts' Secret Apprentice-led Star Wars action adventure hits new sales milestone; Infinities storyline concludes on PSN now, Xbox Live February 23 for $10. LucasArts kicked off the Infinities storyline for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in August 2009 with the release of Tatooine Mission Pack, a downloadable add-on that continued the storyline of Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice. However, to ... more.

Japanese publisher reverses fortunes, posts pachinko-fueled $189 million profit; despite two hits, software sales slide. After leading its fiscal year off by posting a ¥10.29 billion ($115 million) loss on revenues down 19 percent year-over-year to ¥60.46 billion ($679 million), Sega Sammy has slowly been retaking ground. Reporting on the first nine months of its 2010 fiscal year today... more.

Wii price cut and slowing DS sales cut into Mario Factory's bottom line; Legend of Zelda sells 2.45 million, DSi XL sells 700,000. Following a rough 2009, Nintendo today issued its earnings report for the nine months ending December 31. The April-December period saw sales of ¥1,182.1 billion ($13.06 billion), a decline of 23.1 percent compared to the same timeframe in 2008. Nintendo's nine... more.

Nintendo's top-selling console soars during final month in 2009, DS claims annual US sales records; latest portly-plumber platformer goes quadruple-platinum. Nintendo's Wii got off to a stumbling start during the heavily hyped Black Friday shopping window this year. Whereas the publisher sold 800,000 units during the week of Thanksgiving in 2008, that number fell to 550,000 in 2009, a slip that ... more.

VG247: Nintendo's confirmed that Wii Sports Resort has sold over 5 million units in the five months it's been on sale in Europe. View full post on GamesRadar - News... more.

Publisher cuts annual outlook to $910 million after Jack of All Games subsidiary is scooped up by IT systems distributor Synnex. The Synnex Corporation sounds like the name of a fictional megacorporation up to no good in a sci-fi film. However, the Fortune 500 company is quite real--and soon to be the new owner of Take-Two Interactive's retail game distribution business. ... more.

Following Final Fantasy XIII’s opening day of a million plus sold, Square Enix has now announced that their mammoth RPG has sold a total of 1,516,532 copies in its first week — that’s with the hardware bundle included — making it the best selling PlayStation 3 game ever in Japan. By selling 245,406 units last week, the PS3 itself enjoyed a comfortable boost as well. If my ... more.

Bugs aren't hard to come by on the EA store and considering the Mirrors edge, Mercs 2 and Dead Space fiasco, this isn't the first, and is probably isn't the last time it will happen. The lowdown is that a bug in the EA UK Store is basically letting people buy Medal of Honor Airborne and Battleforge for free. View full post on GamesRadar - News... more.