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Bought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Activision says Thanks 310 Million Times! CoD

by Jay Garrett on November 14, 2009

codmw2You can’t have gotten through this week without hearing about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

I’ve not bothered mentioning it as everyone seemed to be doing that.

But I can’t fail mentioning this.

The latest episode of the popular shooty-shooty-death-kill game has experienced the biggest launch of an entertainment product in history!

It has managed to haul a huge $310 million in the space of 24 hours in the UK and US alone!

Remember that little Batman film – Dark Knight? PAH!

That only managed $158 million in the same period of time.

This amount was generated by 4.7 million units sold which is especially fantastic when you know that the market has been in decline in the last year.

In the UK 1.2 million copies were sold in the 24 hours following its release, twice the amount Grand Theft Auto IV sold in its first day.

Analysts predict that by Christmas, Activision will have sold around 12 million copies of the game.

Since its release, the game has been plagued with online difficulties. PC gamers were disappointed with the initial lack of online support, while the PlayStation Network struggled to deal with the sudden flood of online games.

Meanwhile Xbox Live experienced relatively few problems, and even achieved a landmark 2 million users online at the same time.

Is it all that it’s cracked up to be?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments below :)

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Read Marvel Comics and Others on Your PSP

by Jay Garrett on August 19, 2009

PSPgo_digital-comicI’ve covered next-gen comics a few times here on GadgetyNews in the form of Longbox, and Marvel’s motion comics but now here’s a follow-up to the PSP comic store news I broke in March.

The new digital reader service that’ll be bouncing onto both PSP3000 and PSP Go will allow their owners to access a stack of media on their handheld – the initial launch will be the Digital Comics in December.

Marvel is one of the big partners in on the project, along with content from others such as Star Wars publishers IDW Publishing as well as a load more who will be offering readers graphic novels on the hoof.

By the sounds of things there’ll be hundreds of comics to choose from in the PlayStation Store straight from the opening :)

All you’ll have to do is download the digital reader from PSN when it’s released in December, and then you’ll be set to start downloading your comics of choice over any wireless connection. Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

Do you think this will be as good as it seems?

Let me know :)

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Sony Bringing Out Touchscreen and PSN Loving VAIO’s

July 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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Word has it that Sony has some touchscreen VAIO’s planned later this year which will drop around the same time as the release of Windows 7 which happens to have a more robust touchscreen support than Vista.
Sony is also beavering away at getting some content from the PlayStation Network right onto the [...]