Game sales to reach $81,000,000,000 in 2016!

According to GameSpot, an analyst has done his magic and seen that the future of video game sales is huge. There have already been $66 billion dollars in sales of video games - now, that number is going to climb very quickly to $81 billion!



There's no doubt that games in the Call of Duty series made a huge piece of that money; alongside World of Warcraft and its expansions. Activision-Blizzard got the most out of single games, it seems... Black Ops sold more copies than any other game in history, with around 25-30 million copies sold!


Nonetheless, This is a great milestone in gaming history. Passing eighty-billion dollars in sales of video games just shows how big the industry has gotten and how big it's going to get. 


Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6333279.html
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Modern Warfare 3, Releasing on November 8th

Call of Duty has been an immensely popular series and one of its incarnations, Black Ops, has sold over 20 million copies - making it the best selling game ever. This game has made almost 1.5 billion dollars in revenue for Activision.

Modern Warfare 3 is going to be released on November 8th, 2011. This is a highly anticipated game, being the sequel to the game CoD: MW2 - which also sold quite a few copies and is still fairly popular with a lot of people around the world.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6313628/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-coming-nov-8-report
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E3, 2011, List of Games at Show

Here is a list of the games being shown at this year's E3 - these are in addition to the new Nintendo console that is being revealed, this year!

 This year's show is going to be very big; there is going to be Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, Dead Island, Bioshock: Infinite, Gears of War 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Batman: Arkham City, From Dust, Assassins Creed: Revelations, Wii 2 (project cafe), Legend of Zelda: Skyward, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Two Worlds II and much, much more!
















2K Games
BioShock: Infinite 
The Darkness II


2K Sports
NBA 2K12 


Activision
Prototype 2 
Skylanders Spyro's Adventure 
Spider-Man: Edge of Time
X-Men: Destiny


Bethesda Softworks
Prey 2 
Rage
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim


Codemasters
Bodycount
F1 2011 


D3 Publisher
The Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
White Knight Chronicles II 


Deep Silver
Dead Island
Risen 2: Dark Waters


Devolver Digital
Serious Sam 3: BFE 


Disney Interactive Studios
Cars 2 
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game 


Electronic Arts
Battlefield 3 
FIFA Soccer 12 
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 
Madden NFL 12 
Mass Effect 3 
NCAA Football 12 
NHL 12 
Need for Speed: The Run  
SSX 
Star Wars: The Old Republic
The Sims 3: Generations 


En Masse Entertainment
Tera 


Focus Home Interactive
A Game of Thrones: Genesis 
Of Orcs and Men 
Rotastic 
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Testament of Sherlock 


Gazillion
Fortune Online  
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online


Microsoft
Forza Motorsport 4
Gears of War 3


MonkeyPaw Games
BurgerTime HD


Nexon
Dragon Nest 
Vindictus


Nintendo
Super Mario 3DS 
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword 


No Publisher Announced
Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension 


Perfect World Entertainment
Raiderz


SouthPeak Games
Battle VS Chess 


Tecmo
Ninja Gaiden III 


Telltale Games
Back to the Future: The Game -- Episode 5: Outatime 
Jurassic Park: The Game 
Puzzle Agent 2 


TopWare Interactive
Scivelation 
Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress 


Trion Worlds
End of Nations 
Rift 


Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed Revelations 
Call of Juarez: The Cartel 
Driver: San Francisco 
From Dust 
Rayman Origins: Episode 1 
Rocksmith
The Adventures of TinTin  
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
TrackMania2 Canyon 


Warner Bros. Interactive
Bastion
Batman: Arkham City
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North


Go to IGN to see what consoles they are on and see more information about them like screenshots, etc.



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EA, probably developing for Next-gen Xbox

According to IGN, Electronic Arts may very well be designing games for the next-generation Xbox, already! The case, according to them, just looks like a normal computer - like many early consoles look like, before they have any real design.

The updates on IGN's story tell that the console is probably going to be coming around 2013, but the people at Electronic Arts (EA) don't know what the console really looks like or much about it; they said it was from a trusted source, but who knows - Nintendo is announcing their console at E3 this year, although, Microsoft won't announce one this year, they may announce one next year and release it in 2013.

Some people are joking that it's just going to be a 360 with a Kinect duct taped to the side...

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/116/1166424p1.html
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Xbox Division, Kinect sells millions more

Microsoft's Xbox Division's sales have gone up by 60% and Kinect has sold millions more. Kinect is the awesome new way to control video games - it allows for the player to not have to use a controller at all and the player can just stand there and move about and talk to control the Xbox (or whatever platform someone decides to program Kinect to work for!).

Anyway, this has allowed this one division to make a net profit of almost $2,000,000,000 - that is, two-billion dollars.

Read more at GameSpot:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310586.html
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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, the best game ever

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is honestly my favorite game that I've ever played in my entire life; I can't stay I'll ever see a game that's better, because I won't. This game had the most awesome of any video game story that I've ever experienced and played through in a video game.





I really can't wait to see a sequel to this game, someday; Dreamfall came out in 2006, I believe, but some say that the sequel isn't too far away... But who knows; I really want to see the sequel now, because I can't stand not ever being able to complete the story that I began playing through!



Here is a trailer for Dreamfall - it's not the newest looking (2006), remember, but it's still the best game I've ever played.



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Jurassic Park, Telltale games, Screenshots and art

Here are some screenshots and/or art of that awesome looking video game adaptation of the 'Jurassic Park' movies (are they books, too?). Anyway, these look freaking awesome!


























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Project Cafe, Nintendo's new console coming soon

Project Cafe, sometimes called Wii 2, is Nintendo's codename for their new console that will be revealed soon. It is likely that they'll reveal it at E3 or sometime in late May. Nintendo's new controller for the console seems to be something different, like they always try to do. This time it is a controller that has an HD screen on it.

The picture above is a concept of the controller from IGN. It looks very interesting. I hope it looks a little better than this, but it still looks awesome. This isn't the real concept from Nintendo, since the console isn't announced, yet; however, this is an imaginative version from IGN dissecting the rumors about the new console's controller.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/116/1162204p1.html
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Black Mesa : Source - A fan-made modification - Remake of Half Life

Some fans have been remaking Half Life for years now - when will it ever release?! I really want to play it, but if you haven't heard of it then you really need to check it out! The game looks awesome and professional - even better than most games from real companies. This one is going to be a complete and very close (not completely) remake of the original Half Life.

I believe some of the people working on it are people who's jobs are with real video game companies, which would explain the high quality - check it out! :D

Source: http://www.blackmesasource.com/

  
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Kingdom Hearts 3 - Coming Soon?!

Kingdom Hearts 3 may be under development!

My source has a pretty short story, so I won't give all the details; just go there and read about it for yourself :)

Source: http://www.dualpixels.com/profiles/blogs/disney-developing-aaa-next

  
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Art of Villiany?

GameSpot made an awesome story on the art of villiany, and how all the good villians seem to be long gone. They also talk about how that tragedy of a game, Dragon Age II, suffers from the lack of a great villian.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6307277/index.html?tag=topslot;img;3

  
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Minecraft has a RELEASE DATE!

Minecraft's release date is the same as Skyrim's - 11-11-11, or November 11, 2011!

Source: http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1160573p1.html

  
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Art Exhibit at the Smithsonian - Are Video Games ART?

The Smithsonian is going to have a video game exhibit, displaying the years of the evolving art of video games. However, some people still argue that games are not art. How can they not be art? Some people argue that they have to be experience the same way for everyone who sees it, just they have to be able to interpret it differently.

The problem with that definition of 'art' is that you would not be able to consider any musicals, plays, video games, figure skating or anything of that sort a type of art, because each of them could be different at each performance - some people will say a line differently, be at a different spot than the last time they were in the play, they could not see that part of the video game.. there are just so many reasons why that would not work. I don't understand how anyone could argue that video games are any different than any other type of art.

Source: http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1160394p1.html

  
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Video Games - Outlawed for kids?

It seems that the supreme court is going to decide something that could effect a huge industry in the United States: video games. They are going to decide whether or not it's legal for kids to play violent video games.

It's okay for them to watch violent movies, which are far more realistic, so why not video games? Well, maybe it's the interaction with the video games that changes everything; kids can decide whether or not to beat up an old woman - they could decide to attack people for no reason.

Here is a news story, telling about how the Supreme Court is split on the decision...


http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/03/business/la-fi-court-videos-20101103-6

  
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Orcs Must Die! - Robot Entertainment - PREVIEW

Orcs Must Die!

That's right - they're invading your castle and they have to die, now! Orcs Must Die is an upcoming video game for pc, 360 and ps3. It is a hybrid game, combining strategy and third person shooter elements. It looks like an awesome game!

It's like a tower defense game on crack! It looks action packed and fun. I can't wait to play it!

Robot Entertainment is the company developing the game; this company includes mostly people from the now closed Ensemble Studios, which developed Halo Wars and the amazing Age of Empires series, along with their mythological Age of Mythology - which is my favorite of all of their games.



Robot Entertainment went to PAX and posted pictures, here is the link to them:


http://robotentertainment.com/blog/detail/Orcs-Must-Die-PAX-East-Wrap


  
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Mass Effect 2: Arrival DLC - REVIEW - 3.0/4.0

 


Mass Effect 2: Arrival is a DLC (Downloadable Content) package released about one year after Mass Effect 2 was released; this dlc is far from perfect but it's still kind of cool.

Pros:


• It's more Mass Effect 2
• Great cinematic feel like usual
• Cool music
• Fun gameplay
• Amazing voice acting
• Epic Storyline
• Cheap
Cons:
• Choices you make in this DLC do absolutely nothing to the outcome, other than a couple of dialogue changes.
• Some of it seems rushed
• It's a bit short
• Some of the story seemed a little bit confusing, but mostly it's okay


In all, I really liked this DLC - even if it was short. It's definitely better than Dragon Age II... You can get Mass Effect 2 for free with Dragon Age II, until April 30th, according to Bioware.


http://dragonage.bioware.com/me2offer/

  
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