Wasteland 2 From InXile Has Legs

SEPT. 24, 2014 • Four days out from its September 19 release on Steam, Wasteland 2 from inXile Ent. has generated $1.5 million in revenue. This RPG for PCs benefited from a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise $3 million in 2012. The original funding goal was $900,000, which was then the largest Kickstarter target to date. Although the game is the first official sequel to Interplay Productions’ Wasteland from 1988, the Fallout series drew inspiration f.....

PlayStation 4 Sales Top 10 Million

AUG. 13, 2014 • During the Gamescom conference this week in Cologne, Germany, Sony Computer Ent. announced that PlayStation 4 sales have reached 10 million units worldwide through August 10 since the console’s launch last November. More than 30 million units of first- and third-party PS4 software have been sold via retail and digital distribution globally during the same period. In related news, Sony said it was launching the PlayStation TV micro console i.....

First Half 2014 Japan Video Game Console Sales Flat

JULY 9, 2014 • Japanese game publication Famitsu has released a tally of Japan video game console hardware sales in Japan for the first six months of 2014. Despite the PlayStation 4’s recent launch in the market last February the sales leader was the Nintendo 3DS at 1.1 million units. The PlayStation Vita was second at 639,730, in third at 613,785 was the PS4, The PS3 was fourth at 300,386, while fifth was held by the Wii U at 291,605. What’s more, F.....