The full Android version of Angry Birds has been downloaded more than one million times from GetJar in the last 24 hours.
Developer Rovio Mobile tweeted the milestone this afternoon:
"Over 1 million Angry Birds downloads on GetJar in a day, no wonder the servers were down."
The figure was also confirmed by GetJar CMO Patrick Mork on Twitter, with the additional information that this is a new record for the independent app store.
GetJar's servers struggled to cope when the game went live yesterday, and more than 90,000 people downloaded it in a matter of seconds.

Rovio has also been using Twitter to respond to complaints from Android users about the performance of the game on their handsets.
"The experience on the Hero is not great, best we can do with that graphics hardware," says one tweet in response to a query.
Meanwhile, the developer also confirmed that the challenges of selling games on Android was one of the key reasons for going with GetJar and an ad-supported model.
"Yes, right now it's not easy to make money with paid content on Android. Hoping that ads will cover costs if nothing else," tweeted Rovio in response to another query.

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PlayStation 3 motion controller Move has sold around 1.5 million units in Europe, according to Sony's Andrew House.

Speaking to Bloomberg, the head of Sony Europe said the company was looking to increase production of the controller, which launched in the region on September 19.

Move has seen "very significant sales in the first month since launch, somewhere in the region of 1.5 million units for the new controller across just Europe," according to House.

"The initial sales response has been so far in excess of our initial plan that we'll probably be looking at accelerating production."

He also said that Sony is expecting to beat worldwide sales targets of 15 million PlayStation 3 units for the full year, despite the slow down in the overall market.

"Sales have been significantly up year-on-year in a market that has been overall slightly down," offered House.

"We have lots of confidence in our ability to hit our profitability target this year," he added. "But currency movements present significant challenges" he said, referring to the appreciation of the yen.

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The NPD Group has released details of physical sales in the US for the month of September, showing an overall decline in sales of packaged goods, hardware and accessories of 8 per cent over the same month in 2009.

That's despite the high profile launches of Halo: Reach and Dead Rising 2 - which claimed first and third places in the month's sales chart, while Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock missed out on a top ten spot.

Total US sales hit $1.22 billion, down from $1.32 billion last year, while hardware was particularly weak, showing a 19 per cent fall from $472 million to $383 million.

The Xbox 360 was the only console to buck that trend, seeing its best month for unit sales so far, up 34 per cent on last year - although Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg later Tweeted the figure as 37 per cent, and detailing total units sold as 483,989.

In a note to investors, analyst firm Wedbush Morgan revealed that sales of Nintendo's Wii were down 45 per cent year-on-year with 254,000 units sold, while Sony shifted 312,000 PlayStation 3 units, down 37 per cent.

It also added that Xbox 360 software sales were up 33 per cent to $85 million off the back of Halo: Reach, while Wii software sales fell 38 per cent to $55 million and PlayStation 3 sales dropped 14 per cent to $17 million. DS games sales were down 37 per cent to $31 million and PSP sales down 2 per cent.

Accessories was the only segment to show any growth - thanks to the release of PlayStation Move and the continuing popularity of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network points cards. Sales rose by 13 per cent to $180 million.


Halo: Reach topped software sales for the month, selling 3.3. million units.
Software accounted for $655 million, down 5 per cent year-on-year, with Microsoft's Halo title selling 3.3 million - although with NPD changing its media release patterns there's no way to tell how the rest of the top ten fared.

"While industry sales of new physical retail sales show a decline versus year ago, it's important to remember that there is a growing volume of content being sold digitally, or otherwise outside the traditional retail channel," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier. "These numbers reflect the largest channel for hardware, software and accessories sales, but there are content sales happening elsewhere."

Meanwhile Microsoft confirmed reports that Kinect was selling-out at retailers nationwide ahead of its November 4 launch.

The software all-formats top ten was as follows:

1. Halo: Reach (360) - Microsoft
2. Madden NFL 11 (360, PS3, PS2, Wii, PSP) - Electronic Arts
3. Dead Rising 2 (360, PS3, PC) - Capcom
4. NHL 11 (360, PS3) - Electronic Arts
5. FIFA Soccer 11 (360, PS3, PS2, PSP, NDS) - Electronic Arts
6. Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP) - Square Enix
7. Mafia II (360, PS3, PC) - Take-Two Interactive
8. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (PS3, 360, NDS, Wii) - Activision Blizzard
9. Metroid: Other M (Wii) - Nintendo
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360, PS3, PC) - Activision Blizzard
Update: Added NPD hardware sales numbers as released by Wedbush Morgan, and percentage change year-on-year for software sales, in paragraphs five and six.

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Microsoft's Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live services will be made available for nine new countries from November 10, 2010, offering localised content and support.

Residents of Russia, Poland, South Africa, Greece, Czech Republic, Hungary, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile will all be able to access the services from their home countries, without having to register an account in a foreign country. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese language options will be available.

Customers with existing accounts registered from elsewhere will be able to migrate territories, keeping all avatar items, Microsoft Points, downloads, DLC and games saves. Existing accounts will have their subscriptions rounded up to the nearest month when they migrate.

Certain services, such as Twitter, Facebook and Zune, are as yet unavailable in the new territories, so any associated content will not function with migrated accounts. All purchased content can be re-downloaded prior to the migration, but once it has taken place only content purchased under the new details will be available to re-download.

No specific pricing has yet been given for the subscription or Microsoft Points in the nine new countries, but Microsoft says that it hopes to "offer consistent pricing for Xbox LIVE around the world".

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New software releases in September have not met expectations in the US, according to Cowan & Company's Doug Creutz.

Microsoft's Halo: Reach sold 3.3 million units during the month, below Cowan's 3.75 million estimate, while Activision's Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, only managed "a fairly dreadful" 86,000 units in its first five days.

He also singled out Nintendo's Metroid: Other M as missing expectations, in the first month that The NPD Group stopped releasing detailed data on individual sales.

Released in August, EA's Madden NFL 11 slowed down in its second month on the market, with unit sales down 11 per cent, with Creutz adding "we continue to expect cumulatively flat year-on-year performance for the franchise through December."

There were "few major surprises at the publishers" during September, said Cowan & Company - including PC software, Activision Blizzard sales were down 41 per cent, EA down 42 per cent, Take-Two down 170 per cent and THQ down 25 per cent compared to the same month last year.

While October is expected to be a stronger month, Creutz lowered full calendar year expectations to be down 5 per cent on 2009.

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A total of nine new entries in the Japanese software chart this week have failed to shift Pokemon Black and White from the top spot, as the latest in the series almost reaches four million unit sales to date.

Slots two, three, four and five were taken by fresh titles, with Macross F, Kingdom Hearts and Class of Heroes 3 all hitting the top five. Straight in at number four was the PS3 version of Rockstar's Red Dead Redemtion, with the 360 SKU trailing behind it in 7th.

In the hardware charts, sales dipped for the top three consoles, with PSP still on top in terms of individual unit sales. But DSi and DSi LL were second and third, with a combined total which easily eclipses that of PSP.

Full charts follow below. For software, figures in brackets are sales to date. In the hardware chart, last weeks figures are shown in brackets.

1. Pokemon Black & White (DS): 231,638 (3,992,855)
2. Macross F Itsuwari no Utahime (PS3): 152,699 - New Entry
3. Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded (DS): 95,505 - New Entry
4. Red Dead Redemption (PS3): 70,599 - New Entry
5. Class of Heroes 3 (PSP): 30,572 - New Entry
6. Wii Party (Wii): 26,259 (1,099,428)
7. Red Dead Redemption (X360): 25,673 - New Entry
8. F1 2010 (PS3): 25,273 - New Entry
9. Dead Rising 2 (PS3): 24,416 (104,111)
10. K-On! After School Live (PSP): 21,454 (192,303)
11. Black Panther Yakuza New Chapter PSP): 19,109 (236,485)
12. Class of Heroes 3 (PS3): 14,892 - New Entry
13. Okamiden (DS): 12,829 (97,300)
14. Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (PSP): 11,147 (95,507)
15. Tenkaichi Sengoku Lovers DS (DS): 9,510 - New Entry
16. H.A.W.X.2 (PS3): 8,921 - New Entry
17. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii): 6,991 (849,567)
18. Dragon Ball Tag Versus (PSP): 6,734 (25,814)
19. Dead Rising 2 (X360): 6,279 (50,097)
20. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP the Best Reprint (PSP): 6,261 (443,365)
1. PSP: 33,683 (37,088)
2. DSi: 22,301 (24,937)
3. DSi LL: 21,777 (24,246)
4. PS3: 19,948 (20,363)
5. Wii: 12,158 (13,360)
6. DS Lite: 5,960 (5,707)
7. X360: 2,746 (2,769)
8. PS2: 1,373 (1,247)
9. PSP go: 1,191 (754)

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Around 80 per cent of revenue from iPhone Apps stems from in-game goods, according to a report by analytics outfit Flurry>.

For the month of September, Flurry found that the average monthly revenue per user in its surveyed Apps was $9 from virtual goods sales, and just over $1 from advertising.

While advertising revenues were roughly the same in September 2009, the estimated average monthly revenue per user from virtual goods has grown from around $1.70 in the space of a year.

Flurry's figures were based on data from a range of 'leading' iOS applications, which it claims sport a combined reach of 2.2 million daily active users.

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News via http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...n-amstrad-cpc/

The Mojon Twins seem to be going through an Amstrad CPC conversion phase, what with the recent Speccy game Cheril of the Bosque being converted, and now CPC gamers have Lala Prologue in Mode 1 colour glory. The game has the player taking control of Lala with the task of retrieving all the Great Witch Academy’s magical filters and chemicals, which have been randomly scattered across the surroundings of the academy. So it’s a platform game in the classic sense: search the screens, progress by gaining access to new screens and, of course, avoid the nasties. The game disk and tape images can be downloaded for free from the Mojon Twins’ webpage.

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Episode 52 – “Happy 1st Birthday” of The Retro League has been released. The weekly retrogaming podcast is one year old and to celebrate this milestone, the team look back at the very first episode highlights. Elsewhere, ‘Virtually Retro’ looks at X-Men Arcade XBLA, PSN Announcement, Fatal Fury 3 and Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley. In the news is ‘The Castlevania Retrospective’, ‘Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary’… All this and more can be heard in the 52nd episode of The Retro League, which can be downloaded for free.

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