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It's that time again. The April 2013 NPD report is now available, with Warner Brothers and NetherRealm Studios sitting atop the list of best selling titles. Sales continue on a downward trend, with significant losses over last April. Microsoft's Xbox is on top in the United States for the 21st... More

According to a report entitled Online Gaming 2013 from industry data analysts The NPD Group, online gaming increased in size last year in terms of both the number of U.S. gamers playing online as well as the time they spent doing so. The number of self-reporting gamers going online to play games stood... More

The full March 2013 NPD sales report is in, with Bioshock Infinite taking top spot on the retail software list. The Xbox 360 was the top selling console for the 20th month in a row in the United States. 261,000 units were sold in March, with retail spending totaling $402 million. This includes all revenues... More

According to a recent Game Developers Conference event centered on digital game sales, a lot more games are being purchased digitally. Downloadable content and digital game sales are growing by 33 percent year over year, in both the US and Europe. The US, UK, France, and Germany are seeing the highest... More

[Update 2] Dead Space 3's chart-topping North American February sales figures clocked in at 605,000 units. The figure, obtained by GameSpot , tops juggernaut Call of Duty: Black Ops II and the 260,000 Crysis 3 sales that NPD also revealed, though Crysis was only on sale for two weeks out of the reporting... More

January's NPD numbers are in, and it was a historically rough month for Nintendo's new console. Gamasutra estimates that the system moved between 45,000 and 59,000 units for the month. These figures are especially noteworthy, as they mean the Wii U had a worse month than Xbox 360 or Playstation... More

Research firm The NPD Group has released their public report for January of 2013, and the news is grim as expected. With some accounting quirks accounted for, overall retail sales are down 13 percent year over year. Because of the difficulty in lining up reporting periods against the actual calendar... More

The NPD group is reporting that last year $14.8 billion was spent on video games. That includes new, rentals, and used games, as well as digital content. According to the report, $7.09 billion were spent on new physical video and PC game, $1.79 billion on used and rental games, and $5.92 billion on digital... More

Disney revealed its new game Disney Infinity yesterday, which the company says is a key component of a larger multiyear gaming strategy. If reported sales figures of Epic Mickey 2 are accurate, that kind of change is something that Disney desperately needs. The Los Angeles Times revealed the information... More

The NPD Group has just released December's list of best-selling games, and has also revealed the best-sellers for the entire year, as well as the hardware and software sales picture for the month. Unfortunately for the industry as a whole, dollar sales in the hardware, software, and accessories categories... More

According to NPD, Nintendo sold a lot of hardware in November. According to a week's worth of data following its November 18 launch, the Wii U sold 425,000 units, nearly matching the Wii's launch week sales of 475,000. Resulting from high Black Friday sales, this marks the 36th time that Nintendo... More

U.S. retail tracking firm NPD released its sales results for November 2012. Total video game sales at retail fell 11 percent compared to last year at the same time. For the month, Microsoft sold 1.26 million Xbox 360 consoles, which is down from the 1.7 million it sold last year during the same time... More

Update: Nintendo released some new statistics showing huge increases in 3DS sales since the launch of its new, larger XL hardware. According to Nintendo, 3DS hardware sales (we assume this means both original and XL hardware) increased 36 percent over July. 3DS software, thanks to the success of New... More

It was another relatively slow month for video games sales, but Nintendo's handhelds bucked the trend. Anita Frasier, an analyst for U.S. retail tracking firm NPD, said, “Of the hardware platforms that were on the market last July, only one, the 3DS, realized a unit sales increase over last... More

According to industry trackers, consumers spent $3.4 billion on new video game content earlier this year, with digital sales on the rise. Despite the large sum of money estimated spent on video games, this is down from 2011's first quarter estimate of $5.9 billion. While NPD says that the decline... More

U.S. market research firm NPD released its monthly sales figures today. Overall total games sales took a dive year-over-year, dropping from $718.9 million to $516.5 million for May 2012, a 28 percent decline. Xbox 360 led console sales for the month, selling 160,000 units. Sony and Nintendo have not... More

Research firm NPD revealed March video game sales results for the U.S. Total video game sales declined 25 percent year-over-year from $1.47 billion to $1.1 billion. On the hardware side, Microsoft led console sales with 371,000 units sold. Nintendo and Sony have not announced hardware numbers at this... More

The God of War Collection remains the best-selling HD remaster to date. With the help of retail tracking firm NPD, we put together a top 10 list of best-selling HD remaster games released in the U.S. so far at retail. The list does not include download sales, however. Most HD remasters are now available... More

U.S. game sales just got a bit more accurate. NPD Group, a retail tracking firm, said today it reached an agreement with Walmart to receive and analyze its point-of-sale information. Under this agreement, NPD will receive sales data from Walmart U.S. stores and walmart.com. The agreement covers "a... More

U.S. market retail tracking firm NPD released its December sales numbers as well as overall 2011 sales. Retail sales of video games generated revenues of $9.3 billion, which was an 8 percent decline over the $10.1 billion generated in 2010. "Overall industry results are not entirely surprising given... More