Posts Tagged ‘ Games ’

Angry Birds get beaks into top 10 online retailers

Tweet Looking back at 2010 there were a number of games which left a profound mark on the industry. According to my esteemed colleague and resident Hitwise games guru James Murray: “Blizzard’s superb RTS sequel StarCraft 2, renegade space RPG Mass Effect 2 and legendary FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops all raised the bar [...][ READ MORE ]

Tron searches dominated by Daft Punk soundtrack and light cycle game

Tweet This winter’s big budget film is Tron Legacy, and as with any major Hollywood release, in the build up to the film’s opening weekend, searches online have reached new peaks. In the last week searches for ‘tron’ have more than doubled, whereas searches for ‘tron legacy’ increased by 60%. What’s interesting about the search [...][ READ MORE ]

Call of Duty Black Ops fans rejoice at Zombie return

Tweet At midnight last night thousands of video games fans queued to get their hands on the latest must-have game – Call of Duty: Black Ops. Obviously there were plenty of people who couldn’t buy a copy last night and instead decided to buy the game online. There was a surge of online activity last [...][ READ MORE ]

Canterbury top digital city in the UK

Tweet The Internet has become an integral part of a lot of people’s lives in the UK. Certain cities are particularly digitally integrated however, and surprisingly, London is not the online hub of the UK. In our analysis of Internet usage in the UK, Canterbury comes out on top as the top digital city and [...][ READ MORE ]

Harry Potter fever: Wizarding World theme park, Deathly Hallows, Lego game

Tweet With the unveiling in June of the Universal theme park, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the movie trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the release of Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, it’s fair to say that Harry Potter fever is casting a spell over online audiences again. Of the 32 [...][ READ MORE ]

World Cup 2010 searches and Panini football stickers

Tweet The World Cup is nearly upon us and, as you would imagine, the Internet is starting to go mad for it. Last week (w/e 29/05/10) UK Internet users searched for nearly 25,000 terms; a few were related to other events, but the vast majority referred to the upcoming festival of football in South Africa. [...][ READ MORE ]

Moshi Monsters

Tweet A couple of days ago we provided some data for this Evening Standard article about the success of Moshi Monsters, the fast growing children’s / games website. Traffic to the site has increased more than five-fold over the last 12 months, and it now ranks sixth within our Entertainment – Games category. As the [...][ READ MORE ]

2009 online: the year in review

Tweet The end of the year presents and excellent opportunity for reflection, and also for lists. Combining the two, I’ve decided to reflect on the last year of online activity in the UK by providing a list of our most popular and commented on blogs over the last 12 months. January Our analysis of the [...][ READ MORE ]

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch the most searched for products this Christmas

Tweet Visits to consumer electronics websites increased by 16.5% between October 2009 and November 2009 as the gift buying season started in earnest. This was the largest month-on-month increase in UK Internet traffic to consumer electronics websites this year. Searches for toys and hobbies reached their peak during the week ending December 5th, when they [...][ READ MORE ]

Video Games searches overtake Mobile Phones following release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Tweet UK Internet searches for video games increased by 28% last week following the release of the much hyped and anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As the chart below illustrates, Video Games overtook Mobile Phones to become the most searched for category within the Experian Hitwise Hot Consumer Electronics List last week – [...][ READ MORE ]