Posts Tagged ‘ Video Games ’
Everyone is aware by now about the season’s hottest toy, Zhu Zhu Pets, especially after the brief scare regarding Mr. Squiggles toxicity (he has been fully exonerated). This year’s other runaway hit and hard to find item is the Mindflex game which features a maze where you levitate a ball using your mind (definitely check [...][ READ MORE ]
This morning I was reading an excellent piece on Ars Technica asking the question Did “Lazy Sunday” make YouTube’s $1.5 billion sale possible?. I looked back at our data and blog posts over the past few years to see whether we can help answer the question. To remind readers, “Lazy Sunday” refers to a Saturday [...][ READ MORE ]
The latest video game craze is the release of Nintendo’s Wii Fit, a game focusing on exercise and fitness. First released in Japan in December, the Wii Fit became available in the US last week on May 21st, which caused a surge in the searches for the game. During the 1st week of the release, [...][ READ MORE ]
Whatever you think about the Grand Theft Auto franchise, the latest version (Grand Theft Auto 4) of the sex, guns and crime riddled video game is set to break all sorts of industry records. It is expected that Grand Theft Auto 4 will handily beat last year’s record for sales, held by Microsoft’s Halo 3 [...][ READ MORE ]
It is rumored that Steve Jobs will announce a video rental service for iTunes in his much-anticipated MacWorld keynote on Tuesday. Adding fuel to the fire of speculation, Netflix has preempted Apple’s announcement saying it will offer unlimited access to its streaming video library to most customers. To lend context to the announcements, I wanted [...][ READ MORE ]
Guitar Hero 3 launched 28th October and has since garnered $115 for Activision whose chairman today revealed that Activision has shipped more of the Guitar Hero 3 game than any other in its history. In short order Guitar Hero 3 became the most searched for video game based on share of US Internet searches. The [...][ READ MORE ]