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In the 10 months since it's release, Ubisoft's Just Dance 2 has become the eighth Wii exclusive title to break 5 million in US sales. It joins the ranks of Mario Kart, New Super Mario Bros. Wii Play, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Sports Resort, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Wait, so it's the first third-party game to sell over 5 million copies?
Given Nintendo's reliance on first-party software their current list of top sellers isn't terribly surprising, but it's definitely nice to see Ubisoft join in the over-five-million club. Just one month ago, it became the best selling third-party Wii game ever, and now it's joined the Wii elite or, as I like to refer to them, the Wiilite.
Fire Emblem: Awakening surprised just about everyone with its critical and commercial success. In Japan, the 3DS strategy RPG had sold over 400K units through June 2012, and it's likely continued to grow since then. In the US...
A lot of classic shmups also happen to work as metaphors for insemination. The last level of R-Type Final immediately comes to mind. Wouldn't you know it, but there is a guy who's taken that theme even further, wit...
[DC zombie sculpts by Casey Love Designs]
The NPD Group released US sales data for April 2013 two days ago, but a complete lack of enthusiasm on the part of the Destructoid staff has delayed our posting it. Not our fault! Loo...
[Update: Telltale is mistakenly credited for the LEGO games in the source report, but it should be Traveller's Tales.]
French game studio Ubisoft released its fiscal year 2013 earnings earlier today, trumpeting its tidy profi...
If you have a Wii U, run, don't walk to your GamePad and pick up Super Metroid on the eShop for $0.30 -- it should be live later today, unless Nintendo delayed it until the eShop update tomorrow. A timeless classic, Super Met...
Capcom originally projected that Resident Evil 6 would sell seven million copies. They revised that number in February to five million, but as of yesterday's financial results Resident Evil 6 fell barely short of the target w...
Discussing the SimCity launch fiasco in a call with investors today, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau referred to the title as "a great game that has recovered from a challenging launch." Although that sounds disingenuous whe...
Nearly two years after its initial release, Minecraft - Pocket Edition has surpassed the 10-million-copies-sold mark. Cue the glitter toss!
To accompany this positive piece of news, Mojang's Daniel Kaplan took the time t...
Following Nintendo's fiscal year 2013 briefing, during which president Satoru Iwata announced a significant change to the company's E3 presence, a Q&A session was held to address investors' concerns and inquiries. It was ...
Despite the fact that I had a fairly lukewarm experience with ATV Wild Ride 3D, the fact of the matter is it delivers for racing fanatics, and has a working online component. So if you've been eying it recently, you can grab ...