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Originally Posted by wraggster

Indie sensation Minecraft has just reached another astonishing sales milestone.
"Minecraft just sold its third million copy!" Tweeted creator Markus "Notch" Persson.
The news follows last month's revelation that Minecraft had passed the ten million registered user mark.
Tiny Swedish developer Mojang is estimated to have generated around £35 million in revenue off the back of the PC game.
Minecraft finally leaves beta and in November, when it will officially

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Eric Chahi's eye-catching god simulation From Dust has broken publisher Ubisoft's day one digital download sales record.
The Xbox 360 game broke record digital sales after launching on 27th July.
It had the highest first day sales of any Xbox Live Arcade game that Ubisoft has ever released, with sales approximately 45 per cent higher than Ubisoft's previous best-selling XBLA release - a game the French publisher failed to disclose. Was it Beyond Good & Evil HD, or perhaps Scott Pilgrim

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Mike Morhaime, president of World Of Warcraft developer Blizzard, has said that a second quarterly decline in subscriber numbers should not be a cause of concern. Instead he claims it was to be expected following the release of the game's third expansion, Cataclysm, last December.

Speaking on an investor call following the publication yesterday of Activision Blizzard's latest financial results, Morhaime revealed that World Of Warcraft ended the quarter with 11.1 million subscribers.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The GameBox app makes Facebook games playable on the Apple tablet by handling Flash rendering in the cloud. Only two games are available at present - Zynga's CityVille, and Army Attack by Digital Chocolate - but developer Mobi2SNS is promising that more titles will be added over time

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/gamebox...cityville-ipad

Originally Posted by wraggster

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, developer Snowblind Studios has told Eurogamer.

"We feel that it is," said producer Ruth Tomandl. "We went back and looked pretty closely at Dark Alliance and looked at what really facilitated the co-op in that game, because a lot of people, including a lot of us, played that game on the couch with our friends.

"And we wanted to figure out what was

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