by UBI Soft
Platform:
Xbox 360
(75)Release Date: November 16, 2010
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by UBI Soft
Platform:
Xbox 360(75)Release Date: November 16, 2010
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Friday, December 31, 2010
by UBI Soft
Platform:
Xbox 360
(85)Release Date: November 4, 2010
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by UBI Soft
Platform:
Nintendo Wii(263)Release Date: October 12, 2010
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48 used & new from $32.50
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by Microsoft Software
Platform:
Xbox 360(430)Release Date: November 4, 2010
Buy new: $149.99
432 used & new from $119.00
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by Wu
29 days in the top 100 
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by UBI Soft
72 days in the top 100 Platform:
Xbox 360(84)Buy new:
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by UBI Soft
142 days in the top 100
Platform:
Nintendo Wii(262)Buy new:
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by Microsoft
119 days in the top 100
Platform:
Xbox 360(93)Buy new:
37 used & new from $43.98
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by Microsoft Software
199 days in the top 100
Platform:
Xbox 360(430)Buy new: $149.99
436 used & new from $119.00
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The video games we play today on the PS3 and Xbox 360 have well-crafted physics engines as standard. All the well-known game engines include them, and there’s a whole host of companies offering physics engines as plug-ins, e.g. Havok and NaturalMotion. NaturalMotion has made a name for itself providing very realistic physics systems for some of [...]
Source: Geek.com Games
In the 4th String's final Weekly Thrillride of 2010, the sports podcasting super-team presents The Stringies, their awards ceremony celebrating the best in 2010's sports games.
With 2010 coming to a close, the team behind The Sports Game Guy's Sports Anomaly podcast is premiering its first ever awards ceremony. This week, Todd Zuniga, Greg Ford, and Mike Suszek present The Stringy Awards, the only ceremony dedicated to celebrating the best (and worst) in 2010's sports games. Embedded below is the audio for the episode:
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Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Every 20 minutes this year, Facebook users have posted more than 10.2 million comments and sent more than 4.6 million messages.
Democracy U.K. has provided insightful statistics on Facebook activity, and some of these numbers boggle the mind when you contemplate the technological might needed to handle such volumes. During the average 20-minute period on the site this year, there were:
- 1,000,000 shared links
- 1,323,000 tagged photos
- 1,484,000 event invites sent
- 1,587,000 wall posts
- 1,851,000 status updates
- 1,972,000 friend requests accepted
- 2,716,000 photos uploaded
- 10,208,000 comments posted
- 4,632,000 messages sent
The data also includes changes in people’s relationship statuses, which might qualify as the most noticeable update a person can post on the site. People seem more inclined to announce their availability than disclose when they couple up. Here’s a rundown for 2010 that obviously doesn’t include New Year’s Eve hookups:
- 43,869,800 changed their status to single
- 3,025,791 changed their status to “it’s complicated”
- 28,460,516 changed their status to in a relationship
- 5,974,574 changed their status to engaged
- 36,774,801 changed their status to married
Democracy U.K. also provided a rundown of the best-liked celebrities this year, without qualifying whether these are aggregate — it looks like these numbers are current totals rather than new likes clicked just in 2010. Still, marketers ought to have a field day with the following data:
- 24,712,169 people like Lady Gaga
- 23,729,700 people like Eminem
- 19,575,080 people like Megan Fox
- 19,425,325 people like Vin Diesel
- 18,903,844 people like Rihanna
- 17,229,885 people like Barack Obama
- 17,168,034 people like Bob Marley
- 17,004,850 people like Lil Wayne
- 16,779,874 people like Justin Bieber
- 16,520,790 people like Shakira
How do these statistics compare to your Facebook usage this year? Does the data inspire any marketing resolutions for your new year?
Source: All Facebook
by Activision Publishing
242 days in the top 100 Platform:
PlayStation 3
(589)Buy new:
115 used & new from $34.95
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Here we are, once again, at the end of the year! This one was a tough one for me with a lot of exciting projects and the next one is promising to be even more exciting! Now it’s time for me to meet my friends in a Belgium city called Waterloo (where the French Imperial army [...]
Source: FreeGamesNews
None of the apps on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook games, those still under a million monthly active users, has made any outstanding gains. But Little War, the leader, has certainly done well enough with its nearly 300,000 new MAU.
| Top Gainers This Week – Games |
| Name | MAU | Gain | Gain,% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Little War | 878,692 | +298,633 | +61% |
| 2. |  Trial Madness 2 | 635,585 | +227,613 | +63% |
| 3. |  Hero | 732,460 | +209,535 | +48% |
| 4. |  Galaxy X | 739,384 | +184,632 | +37% |
| 5. |  Paradise Life | 561,320 | +165,801 | +49% |
| 6. |  Crazy Cabbie | 764,308 | +127,819 | +21% |
| 7. |  Horse Saga | 623,995 | +127,072 | +27% |
| 8. |  David Guetta, Play with it! | 495,622 | +117,592 | +33% |
| 9. |  MilMo | 214,378 | +112,578 | +344% |
| 10. |  Dragons of Atlantis | 556,128 | +110,908 | +28% |
| 11. |  My Shops | 293,818 | +82,816 | +45% |
| 12. |  Pool Master 2 | 792,922 | +81,731 | +12% |
| 13. |  Santa Yourself | 321,519 | +77,070 | +32% |
| 14. |  Zombie Mosh | 241,370 | +76,245 | +57% |
| 15. |  Downhill Snowboard | 536,910 | +74,408 | +17% |
| 16. |  Fun Games | 199,314 | +72,553 | +70% |
| 17. |  Tarjetas Animadas | 192,938 | +72,223 | +68% |
| 18. |  Magic Mall | 222,248 | +71,435 | +58% |
| 19. |  Classic Word Games | 366,515 | +69,030 | +25% |
| 20. |  Gourmet Ranch | 522,486 | +67,445 | +15% |
Little War is by Five Minutes, a Chinese developer that’s among the handful branching into English-language games. The game plateaued for a few weeks with around half a million MAU, but suddenly sprang up again about a week ago.
As has been the case for about a month now, several casual games are growing well: Trial Madness 2, Crazy Cabbie, Pool Master 2, Downhill Snowboard and Classic Word Games. Arguably, David Guetta, Play with it! falls into the category. The game is actually called Pump It!; it’s a light-weight music app that we recently reviewed over on Inside Facebook.
At number three, Hero is doing well, following strong growth that we noted last week. Although rather rough, it’s an interesting take on the text RPG genre that mixes in concepts from online strategy games like Evony.
Most of the other games within the top 10 we’ve also reviewed, including Galaxy X (here) and Paradise Life (here). One we haven’t taken a deeper look at yet is MilMo, a 3D MMO that uses Unity. Milmo is an ambitious attempt at opening up a new genre on Facebook, and is so far showing decent results; unfortunately, it appears to be running into scaling issues that have turned some users off.
Source: Inside Social Games