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Gameloft reaches 200 million App Store downloads milestone Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 9:02AMGameloft is starting the day off right, with word that the mobile game developer has surpassed 200 million downloads in the iOS App Store, a press release confirms. This is admittedly just a fraction of the total number of app sales across the board, but still an impressive feat for a developer which has built a business out of creating console game-like experiences for mobile platforms. Some ...
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - April 26 Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 11:16PMFiled under: Downloads Things certainly picked right up in terms of PC gaming news today ... and we also heard news about some online issues happening to some console? We are not sure: Steam has new automatic updates for Fate of the World , Homefront , and Left 4 Dead 2 . StarCraft II has a new beta patch that's available in the public test server. iBuyPower has announced it will sell custom ...
Download: StarCraft v1.3.2 Patch Wednesday, April 20, 2011 @ 3:32PMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II For those that prefer not to use the auto-updater, this stand alone patch for the US release of StarCraft II updates the game to v1.3.2. The patch includes some minor bug fixes for both the game and Editor. A list of changes can be found after the jump. The playable demo can be downloaded here . Download the StarCraft II 1.3.2 Patch [PC] (381 ...
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - April 13 Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 11:01PMFiled under: Downloads Just a few more days until Portal 2 puts us under its spell. We can't wait to go co-op portalling. Wait ... that doesn't sound good. Steam has automatic updates for Defense Grid: The Awakening (with free Portal 2 themed levels) and Star Ruler . The closed beta for APB Reloaded has finally launched a couple of European servers . Two more official StarCraft II action figures ...
The Best of Big Download: March 21-27 Sunday, March 27, 2011 @ 9:31PMFiled under: Meta BD It was a big week for PC gamers with Crysis 2 and other titles finally making their debuts. Let's look back at the past seven days on the Big Download site: Exclusive features Reviews : We give our final verdicts for Homefront and Rift . War Inc Battle Zone interview : We chat with the COO of Online Warmongers about its upcoming free-to-play shooter. Downloads Starpoint ...
StarCraft II 1.3.0 patch goes live Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 3:31PMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II StarCraft II 's latest major patch update is now officially live on the game's auto-update servers. This 1.3.0 patch for Blizzard 's hit sci-fi RTS game has a bunch of new features along with a long list of bug fixes, game balance changes and map editor changes and improvements. The big new feature for multiplayer gamers is the addition of ...
Doodle Jump Tops 10 Million Paid Downloads, Bounces to Kinect Thursday, March 17, 2011 @ 8:35AMLima Sky's mobile platform-hopper passes 10 million paid downloads milestone, just in time for Xbox Live Arcade Kinect port announcement.
Angry Birds Exec: R.I.P. Console Gaming Tuesday, March 15, 2011 @ 9:07AMAngry Birds marketing lead claims mobile games spell the demise of traditional console gaming at SXSW conference.
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - March 8 Tuesday, March 8, 2011 @ 10:46PMFiled under: Downloads It's been another busy day. How many of you are now fully immersed in playing Dragon Age 2 right now? Make sure to check on our review of the game in the near future. Blizzard has pulled the 1.3 beta patch for StarCraft II off its public test server until further notice . Speaking of StarCraft II , Blizzard execs played the game on Monday at the NASDAQ stock market. Check ...
StarCraft II 1.3 patch now in beta testing Saturday, February 26, 2011 @ 9:34AMFiled under: Betas , Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II StarCraft II is prepping up another major patch and is letting the general public try it out before it's officially released. Developer Blizzard has announced that the 1.3 patch for the hit sci-fi RTS game is now available to download via the game's public test server. The 1.3 patch adds a new Grandmaster League for 1v1 ladder matches ...
StarCraft II adds nine new maps; removes other multiplayer maps from ladder matches Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 7:04PMFiled under: Downloads , RTS , Starcraft II StarCraft II players will be able to check out some new official multiplayer maps for the hit RTS game. The development team at Blizzard has just made some changes to the map ladder rotation, removing some maps from the ladder matches section while adding nine new ones. The maps that have been removed from the ladder rotation can still be played via ...
Download: StarCraft II 1.2.2 Patch Sunday, February 20, 2011 @ 4:12PMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II StarCraft II players, who downloaded a new patch for the hit sci-fi RTS game earlier this week, are getting yet another patch to download. This patch, labeled as 1.2.2., is a relatively small patch that fixes just one bug: According to the patch notes, the update "Fixed an issue that prevented players from loading in-mission campaign saves ...
Blizzard Turns 20, Enters New Era Sunday, February 20, 2011 @ 2:12AMBlizzard kicked off its 20th anniversary with banners, parties and special awards
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - January 31 Monday, January 31, 2011 @ 10:57PMFiled under: Downloads Good bye January. You are cold, you don't leave us with very much light during the day and you give us lots more snow that we know what to do with. Don't let February hit you on the way out. A Dead Space 2 team member tries to recreate part of the game in Minecraft ; pretty cool. Minecraft merges with the Predator franchise (the movie alien, not the US Army drone) It's ...
Game sales shrunk, but Xbox set records in 2010 Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 7:57PMThe games industry put up less impressive numbers than last year, however Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the accessory market made some of their biggest moves yet.
NPD: Top 10 games of 2010, Xbox 360 up, industry down Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 5:04PMA burst of sales in December wasn't enough to make 2010 a growth year for the video game industry, which saw sales fall 6 percent to $18.58 billion, according to NPD.
Download: StarCraft 2 v1.2 Patch Wednesday, January 12, 2011 @ 12:42PMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II For those having trouble with the StarCraft II auto-patcher, the stand alone patch for the v1.2.0 update is available to download for both PC and Mac. The patch includes a number of bug fixes and game enhancements such as race balance changes, editor improvements and additional Battle.net chat channels.A full list of changes can be found on ...
StarCraft II 1.2 patch officially released Tuesday, January 11, 2011 @ 3:12PMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II The long awaited official 1.2 patch for StarCraft II is now available to all players of Blizzard 's hit sci-fi RTS sequel. Beta versions of the 1.2 patch were made available to any player if they signed onto a public test server but now the patch is now public in its final form. As previously announced this large 1.2 patch adds the long ...
And the most pirated game of 2010 is … Thursday, December 30, 2010 @ 7:16PMCall of Duty: Black Ops is getting its fair share of end-of-year awards, but here’s one gong it probably didn’t want: 2010′s Most Pirated Game. After 2009, that’s two in a row for the series! While Black Ops sold 5.6 million legitimate copies in its first 24 hours on sale in November, a report by [...]
Video Games 2010: The Year in Review Thursday, December 30, 2010 @ 1:42PMA look at the top gaming hits and misses in 2010.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Most Pirated Game In 2010 Thursday, December 30, 2010 @ 9:53AMRecently, we had heard that the “award” for the most pirated movie in 2010 went to the 3D flick, Avatar. There’s another dubious honor that is now being bestowed and that is for the most pirated game in 2010. This years award goes to Call of Duty: Black Ops. Customers have had access to this [...]
Call of Duty: Black-market Ops Thursday, December 30, 2010 @ 3:00AMMost pirated game of 2010 with over 4 million downloads
Black Ops Most Pirated Title of 2010 Wednesday, December 29, 2010 @ 7:33PMCall of Duty: Black Ops (PC) Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dante's Inferno take top console spots.
'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' Earns Most Pirated Game Of The Year Honors Wednesday, December 29, 2010 @ 5:24PMEvery step of the way, onlookers have been watching to see if "Call of Duty: Black Ops" would be able to hit or surpass the benchmarks that "Modern Warfare 2" set one year ago. This week, Activision and Treyarch succeeded in crossing at least one more one title of distinction off their list — Most [...]
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Named 2010's Most Pirated PC Game Wednesday, December 29, 2010 @ 1:36PMData from download tracker TorrentFreak.com shows the PC version of Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops was the most pirated game of 2010, with over 4.2 million confirmed BitTorrent downloads through December 26. Illegal downloads for the popular first person shooter, which enjoys over 20 million registered online players, outpaced those for PC runners-up Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mafia 2 ...
Report: Call of Duty Black Ops PC most pirated game of 2010 Wednesday, December 29, 2010 @ 7:12AMFiled under: Downloads , FPS , Call of Duty: Black Ops Even though PC games have gotten a new surge in popularity lately, piracy of PC game software remains a huge concern. This week the web site Torrentfreak.com reports that the single most pirated PC game of the past year is developer Treyarch 's first person shooter Call of Duty Black Ops . The site claims that even though the game was ...
Best Video Games of 2010 Tuesday, December 28, 2010 @ 3:40AM We usually do a monthly game article to talk about the games we’re excited for. We’re going to skip December since there aren’t too many big releases this month. Instead...
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - December 23 Thursday, December 23, 2010 @ 10:12PMFiled under: Downloads Once again we will still be updating and posting news and some cool features throughout the next 10 days or so while other sites will shut down completely. However it looks like news from now until January 3 will finally be on the slow side. So if you don't see a news post every hour on the hour you will know what happened :) There's a new Natural Selection 2 beta patch ...
Feature: Big Download's 2010 Best PC Game Awards Thursday, December 23, 2010 @ 4:12PMFiled under: Downloads , Features 2010 was a solid year if for PC gaming. A game that some have been waiting 12 years to play finally was released and some other titles surprised us from left field. All in all there was no shortage of titles that were worth your time paying for and playing. But what games were the absolute best of the past 12 months? Ultimately there will always be lots of ...
StarCraft II public 1.2 patch coming (hopefully) in early January Wednesday, December 22, 2010 @ 7:12AMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II Tuesday brought us the long awaited free demo for StarCraft II , about five months after the full version of Blizzard 's sci-fi RTS game was released to a massive and grateful audience. But for folks who have already bought the full version there's also an update on when that game will be getting its next major patch. The 1.2 patch was first ...
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - December 21 Tuesday, December 21, 2010 @ 10:12PMFiled under: Downloads Just when you think things are going to be dull this week, news wise, along comes the nice gift of the StarCraft II demo. It would have been even nicer if we had gotten it closer to the late July release date but we will take what we can get: Steam has a new update for Star Ruler for download. Steam also has an update (for Europeans only) for Emergency 2012 . The Humble ...
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - December 13 Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 10:12PMFiled under: Downloads It's less than two weeks away from the big day. Have you sent out your holiday cards yet? Yeah, we haven't either. We've been too busy with getting some end-of-the-year features ironed out. AMD has just released new 10.12 Catalyst driver updates for its Radeon series of graphics cards. Steam has a new Guardians of Graxia patch update available to download. If the Call of ...
Fiber-optic as the new black for telcos Saturday, December 11, 2010 @ 10:01AMImagine internet connectivity that is speedy, seamless and more affordable. Imagine having telecommunications and internet sevice running along the same network of cables without one having to give way to the other.
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - December 8 Wednesday, December 8, 2010 @ 10:57PMFiled under: Downloads We are back to a normal (or what passes for normal) schedule for the news posts today. We thank all of you for your patience and understanding. Now on with the countdown ... uh, wrong web site. The StarCraft II web site has posted up word of some more clothing options from J!NK (just in time for Christmas) along with a brief bit of StarCraft II fiction . Steam has new ...
PNY Announces XLR8(TM) GeForce(R) GTX 570 Graphics Card Tuesday, December 7, 2010 @ 10:35AMPARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - December 7, 2010) - PNY Technologies ® , Inc. ("PNY"), a global leader in flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, high speed HDMI ® cables, computer memory upgrade modules, consumer graphics cards, and professional workstation graphics cards, today announced the XLR8 T GeForce ® GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 graphics card.
PNY Announces XLR8(TM) GeForce(R) GTX 570 Graphics Card Tuesday, December 7, 2010 @ 10:24AMPARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - 12/07/10) - PNY Technologies, Inc. ("PNY"), a global leader in flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, high speed HDMI cables, computer memory upgrade modules, consumer graphics cards, and professional workstation graphics cards, today announced the XLR8 GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 graphics card. PNY's XLR8 GeForce GTX 570 Enthusiast Edition ...
One day PC game sales include first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game for 99 cents Monday, December 6, 2010 @ 12:12PMFiled under: Downloads Monday starts a new work week and a new set of one day PC game sales. Here are the sales that we know of today. The Games For Windows Marketplace' latest 99 cent deal is for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl for today only. Telltale Games is selling the DVD version of Tales of Monkey Island , with lots of extras, for just $19.95 for today only compared to its normal $49 ...
StarCraft II 1.2 patch released via public test server Saturday, December 4, 2010 @ 10:12PMFiled under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Starcraft II So far all of the previous patches for StarCraft II have simply been released by developer Blizzard simply as is to the public. This weekend, however, Blizzard is doing something different by releasing the next patch for the hit sci-fi RTS game via a public test server before its release to all of the game's players. Blizzard says that this ...
More one day PC game sales show up for Cyber Monday [Update] Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 2:12PMFiled under: Downloads Want even more downloadable PC game deals? We got em' on this Cyber Monday from a variety of sources: Direct2Drive has Civilization 4 The Complete Collection on sale for $9.95 for today only. Other games on sale for Monday are Torchlight for $4.99 , Tropico 3 for $4.99 , Imperium Romanum Gold for $4.99 and Grand Ages Rome for $7.50 . Ubisoft's online web site has the PC ...
Fiber-optic as the new black for telcos Monday, November 22, 2010 @ 3:29AMImagine internet connectivity that is speedy, seamless and more affordable. Imagine having telecommunications and internet sevice running along the same network of cables without one having to give way to the other. This is what voice calls and data uploads and downloads online will feel like over a fiber-optic network.
StarCraft 2 Pirated More Than 2.3M Times Thursday, November 18, 2010 @ 5:24PMDespite the numerous torrent downloads, Blizzard is still racking in the big bucks with StarCraft II.
News: Pirated SCII downloaded how many times? Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 2:41AMThis is one record Blizzard doesn't want. StarCraft II is the fastest-selling real-time strategy game of all time but it's now in the record books for all the wrong reasons. That's because according to TorrentFreak, StarCraft II holds the record for the most data transferred a whopping 15.77 Petabytes. Which means the most popular version of the game's 7.19 GB torrent file has been downloaded ...
Vivendi: 10% Increase in First Nine Months EBITA Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 1:04PMPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Vivendi (Paris: VIV): Note to readers: This press release contains unaudited consolidated earnings established under IFRS which were approved by Vivendi’s Management Board on November 15, 2010. Vivendi Business Units: Comments on Revenues and EBITA for First Nine Months 2010 Activision Blizzard Activision Blizzard delivered better-than-expected financial ...
Vivendi: 10% Increase in First Nine Months EBITA Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 12:55PMRegulatory News:
Big Download's News Bits & Bytes - November 5 Friday, November 5, 2010 @ 9:06PMFiled under: Downloads Looks like Call of Duty: Black Ops is going to have a huge first week of sales, but will PC gamers go for it as much as they did for Modern Warfare 2 ? Good question. The Daily Show has put up its thoughts on this week's US Supreme Court case on games. The previously released historical strategy game Hegemony: Philip of Macedon is now available on Steam . Steam has bug ...
Kotick predicts 2010 will be Activision's most profitable year, company hints at 2011 developments Thursday, November 4, 2010 @ 3:59PMAfter exceeding financial expectations for the third straight quarter this year, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has stated that the company "expect[s] to deliver the most profitable year in our history." Read on to see what helped its cause last quarter and what will drive profits in the next one and in 2011.
StarCraft II rock-and-roll album now available on iTunes Saturday, October 30, 2010 @ 3:11PMFiled under: Culture , Downloads , RTS , Starcraft II StarCraft II is known for its great sci-fi RTS gameplay, its deep campaign, its Battle.net multiplayer, and its CGI cut-scenes. But now it's going to be known for irs rock-and-roll cover tunes. This week developer Blizzard announced that Revolution Overdrive, an album of songs featured in StarCraft II , is now available to purchase and ...
PC/Mac 2010 Gift Guide Thursday, October 28, 2010 @ 4:18PMComputer gamers still have plenty of choices this holiday season including several games with online multiplayer features.
Web Services and Games: Best of 2010 Sunday, October 24, 2010 @ 8:00PMOur choices of Evernote, Google Voice, and Prezi push this category to do business, but it still has fun with Facebook, the MOG music service, and the shopping site TheFind.com, among others.
World of Warcraft Cataclysm to be made available via download Friday, October 22, 2010 @ 3:11PMFiled under: Downloads , Expansions , MMO , World of Warcraft Earlier this year, Blizzard let people pre-order and then download StarCraft II via its Battle.net online service. However, the people who got the downloadable version only were not able to play the RTS game until several hours after the game started being sold in retail stores. Now Blizzard has announced a similar pre-order and ...