38 percent of gamers are female, spending an average of 7.4 hours a week playing, according to the Entertainment Software Association.;;; Studies and sales data have shown that women are more likely to play hand-held casual games, such as the Nintendo DS, along with social oriented games such as "The Sims," where women make up more than 55 percent of players.
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"Here's a RARE treat: NPD have released some sales charts for the PC games market, which list the platform's 20 top-selling games for January."
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ADV Films has chosen the Blu-ray high definition format and plans to begin releasing high def versions of some titles as early as this spring. A highly placed source at the company told us that "frontlist is more important than catalogue right now," so the first high def releases will be the company's newest titles.
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A softening consumer spending environment won't stop annual US software sales exceeding $10 billion for the first time in 2008, says Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets.
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Nintendo just announced its quarterly sales for the end of 2007. Nintendo has sold 20.1 million Wii Lite to date, and 64.7 million DS Operating income went up 135%
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"ESA President Michael Gallagher has revealed a political action committee, which in this election year will donate upwards of $100,000 to candidates. He said it's part of the 'political maturation process' for the game industry."
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"John Riccitiello has been talking about the challenges the industry faces, and he believes that EA and other publishers will need to reevaluate pricing models."
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This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly: Halo 3 is now a distant memory, off of the charts completely, as The Orange Box slips into third place after two weeks at number one. In its place is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which traveled around the top five for weeks before taking the top spot.
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Industry watchers agree on a $600-650 million haul, but no consensus reached on whether Halo 3 propelled the 360 past the Wii.
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According to the NPD results, only 40% of PlayStation 3 owners polled were aware the machine had a Blu-ray player and 30% of Xbox 360 owners were aware of the HD graphics capabilities of the machine.
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