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Vanquish Sells 820,000 Copies WorldWide

According to Sega Sammy's financial reports for the first nine months of the 2010, worldwide sales of the sci fi third-person shooter, Vanquish, were just shy of the million mark in the 3 months after it's release.

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Dark_Overlord4827d ago

Still need to take this game outta the wrapping :( Its annoying having too many good games all at once

Yi-Long4827d ago

... but I don't think it's annoying at all. I actually like it better this way, cause you can wait for current games to hit the bargain-bin, while you're busy enjoying all those great classics you already picked up (also from the bargain-bin btw) for the first time.

I just started Mass Effect 1 this week. Still have a shitload of other classics waiting.

Ahasverus4827d ago

The problem is that waiting for the games to hit the bargain bin gives Devs few money and then you would have less "classics"... I don't think that everygame must be bought at full price but a $40 price is fair IMO

Inside_out4826d ago

Well for such a short game with NO multi-player, those are pretty impressive numbers IMO. I've yet to rent it, maybe this weekend. I understand you complete the game in one sitting...O_o

I hope this doesn't encourage more devs to release 4-5 hour single player only games at full price.

TOSgamer4826d ago (Edited 4826d ago )

Shut up already about these "poor" developers we are suppose to support because they only make $80k to $100k on average. If you're so worried about their welfare start a charity for them. Funny, but I bet you don't think twice about the poor women and children in China and Indonesia making your clothes and shoes for $5 a day. Or the women in China actually assembling the game consoles you play games on. Why don't you remind people to support them?

NeoBasch4826d ago (Edited 4826d ago )

Please God forget ME2 ever existed. The story pales in comparison to ME1. You'll be extremely disappointed. Especially if you play the two back to back.

In other news, Vanquish is absolutely amazing. Highly underrated game that I'll probably be finishing up this weekend now that I'm caught up in school (worked nearly a week straight on one programming assignment).

Mahr4826d ago (Edited 4826d ago )

Article title is misleading. 820K is shipped, not sold. Its actual sell-through is estimated to be a fraction of that number.

:-(

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Iamback4827d ago

I loved DEMO so i feel embarrassed that i still don't have it. I will for sure next month.

ABizzel14826d ago

Hopefully they make it to 1 million. It's a game game, just short and over the top like Bayonetta.

ABizzel14826d ago

good game not game game. lol

NYC_Gamer4827d ago

nice amount sold without any real marketing

Ahasverus4827d ago

Another victim of Fallout and Castlevania. Fallout outsold CV of course by a large trail but at least CV managed to sell 1M in 3 weeks.

dragonyght4826d ago

this is pretty bad its a shame tho it was quite good

Neckbear4826d ago

It's not bad at all, considering it was a game with NO advertising whatsoever, no multiplayer, and you saw the typical "HURR NO RPELAY VALUEH WHERZ MAI MP?!?!" complaints.

In fact, it's quite...good.

Here's hoping for a sequel or somethin'!

Stealth20k4826d ago

Id rather sega focus on valkyria 3

Redempteur4826d ago (Edited 4826d ago )

not the same studio , not the same staff .>Besides V3 is already out

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Best Sci-Fi Games on the PS3

From the cosmos to crash-landing back on good old planet Earth, come read through the best sci-fi-nastically games on the PS3

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zaanan10d ago

Not a single Reistance? Fuck this article.

mastershredder10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Starhawk over Warhawk?...... Dude, NO ONE should listen to you.

Odd choices for "best" more like you settled as these being the "best" that available to you at the time, cause a lot of these blow or were average to poor performers that ended up in bargain bin.

Missing too many great sci-fi titles here. The Void, The Resistance Series, Killzone 2 and 3, Enslaved, man.. there were so many, this is redicu-list.

FreeckyCake10d ago

Nobody should listen to you either with that attitude.

OtterX10d ago

I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.

I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.

Friendlygamer10d ago

The riddick games are some of the best stealth titles ever, highly underrated

YourMommySpoils10d ago

What games? All recall plating was Escape from Butcher Bay.

Friendlygamer10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

There's also the less acclaimed 'assault on dark Athena'

( also, not saying this to you specifically but there's both resistance and killzone games on the list, it's amazing how even something so simple and innocent as a game list can be turned into misinformed vitriol here lol )

jznrpg10d ago

Glad to see Resonance of Fate. Enslaved was pretty good too. I’m sure there are others nobody has listed but I’m too tired to try and think of anything

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SEGA announces Fearless: Year of Shadow

SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.

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Sega sells Relic and will cut 240 jobs across UK studios

GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.

The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."

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-Foxtrot26d ago

Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.

just_looken25d ago

It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.

gold_drake26d ago

I hope they find new jobs in the industry soon.

Jingsing25d ago

Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol