Shadow of the Tomb Raider has debuted at second place in the UK while Spider-Man PS4 managed to hold onto its dominance at the top spot for the second consecutive week. Shadow of the Tomb Raider sales debut was actually higher than the previous title in the trilogy, 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider. Despite that achievement, the latest installment of Lara Croft’s adventure received a multiplatform release, unlike its predecessor, which was an Xbox One exclusive at launch. According to GamesIndustry.biz, 64 percent of Shadow of the Tomb Raider sales was from PS4 owners, with only 37 percent coming from Xbox One owners. However, keep in mind that these numbers do not include digital sales. The UK charts only take physical retail copies into account. On the other hand, reigning champion Spider-Man‘s week two sales have merely decreased 42 percent in comparison to last week, which is an impressive feat of momentum for the PS4 exclusive. Another new game also entered … [Read more...] about Shadow of the Tomb Raider Sales Debut Fails to Topple Spider-Man in the UK
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Hellblade Reaches 100,000 Sales on Xbox; Ninja Theory Donates $25,000 More to Mental Health America
Ninja Theory’s celebrated title Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice captivated players with its mental health-focused story, but the developer took it one step further upon the game’s release on Xbox One earlier this year. They made a pledge to donate $50,000 to nonprofit organization Mental Health America if the Xbox version reached 100,000 in sales—months later, the game has finally passed that goal. During the first week after release for Hellblade on Xbox One, the game reached a still rather impressive 50,000 copies sold. While this was short of Ninja Theory’s original stretch goal, the company still donated $25,000 to the mental health organization, promising to donate the full original amount when the sales goal was reached. There is much to be celebrated with this news: several more players are able to experience the dark and intense action-adventure, but their purchases made it possible for Ninja Theory to provide additional financial support to Mental … [Read more...] about Hellblade Reaches 100,000 Sales on Xbox; Ninja Theory Donates $25,000 More to Mental Health America
One of Magic: The Gathering’s rarest cards was bought for $87,000
Magic: The Gathering is a card-collection game of course, so it makes sense some of its cards would be, well, collector’s items. One just fetched more than $87,000 in an eBay sale. As noticed today by Kotaku, the Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering’s original launch — August 1993, so, happy upcoming 25th anniversary, while we’re at it — went for $87,672 after bidding closed this week. The Black Lotus, which officially “adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool,” showed up in three printings of Magic: The Gathering card sets from 1993. What makes this Black Lotus card so valuable is only 1,100 were printed for MTG’s alpha set from 1993. When a rare item has a known and fixed number, its value increases accordingly. Also helping this card’s sale price was a 9.5 grading (out of 10) from card collection evaluator Beckett. Kotaku has a better explanation for why Black Lotus was so powerful — and so, … [Read more...] about One of Magic: The Gathering’s rarest cards was bought for $87,000
Super Meat Boy Forever is an auto-runner, but it might be the best auto-runner
My first look at Super Meat Boy Forever was its trailer, beneath which commenters lament that it's an auto-runner—a sidescrolling platformer in which the character is always moving left or right regardless of input. It's a style of associated with "simplified" mobile games, and for some people that's an instant strike. Having played Super Meat Boy Forever at PAX East yesterday, I am certain that automatically moving left or right does not make it bad. The dozen or so levels I played were fantastic. I learned a lot. I died a lot. And I didn't miss old-style Super Meat Boy. I felt like it was back, rejuvenated after a productive slumber.The anti-auto-runner crowd may feel vindicated or dismayed to know that Super Meat Boy Forever did in fact start as a concept for a mobile game. "Super Meat Boy came out in 2010 and around that time everybody's losing their mind with iPhone stuff, and Meat Boy was popular, so everybody would ask, 'When's it coming to Android, when's it coming to … [Read more...] about Super Meat Boy Forever is an auto-runner, but it might be the best auto-runner
Cogmind Alpha Year 2 Sales Data (Pre-Steam)
Cogmind recently made it through a second whole year of its pre-Steam early access program, and as this period comes to an end I’d like to take the opportunity to, like the first year, share some data and pretty graphs :) This is an interesting milestone because it more or less coincides with the completion of Cogmind’s primary content, represented by the Beta release just last month, meaning it took around two years of work to bring the game from Alpha 1 to Beta 1. And it’s still amazing that support has been sufficient to maintain full-time development for this long--Cogmind’s lifetime revenue passed the $100k mark in April :D. So a big thanks to everyone who has helped it reach this stage! @’s celebrate the Beta :) For a more general summary of late-alpha progress you can check out the data in my 2016 annual review, whereas this article will instead be mostly looking at revenue and pricing. And while the first year of sales data was neat simply … [Read more...] about Cogmind Alpha Year 2 Sales Data (Pre-Steam)