Reports are that Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has sold roughly 4.5 million copies. By contrast, the PC/Mac version of Minecraft has been purchased over 8.2 million times.
The $20 Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sells roughly 50,000 copies a week, while the $27 PC/Mac version sells at about that rate as well. Minecraft: Pocket Edition for Android and iOS devices is also available for $6.99.
Source: Gamastura
In Japan, it’s not uncommon to see technologies and devices receive “-tan” incarnations, which are cute anime girl personifications. One of the most popular is Siri, the personal search assistant on the iPhone.
One unique element of the Siri-tan incarnations is an emphasis on her, er, rear. As it turns out “Shiri” (which is the name for Siri in Japan) simply means “butt” in Japanese — making her a good excuse for fan service (like artists in Japan need an excuse).
Here’s Siri-tan as a bookish looking girl.
Source: Kotaku.com
Gree has announced that 25 staff will be let go as a result of OpenFeint’s closure. Purchased by Gree for $104 million, the company recently announced that they were shutting down the service ahead of their announced deadline.
“Gree, which recently announced the closure of mobile social gaming platform, OpenFeint, is focusing its U.S. business primarily on its own titles and developer partner titles,” said Gree in a statement. “As part of the company’s internal U.S. reorganization, a majority of the Gree games platform team will be transitioned to new departments with redundancies in some areas. The overall Gree Platform business will begin transitioning to its operations in Tokyo as a part of this change.”
Zynga games are advertised pretty extensively online and, naturally, on Facebook. Turns out they’re seeing some street advertising in New York like the way a band or local play would be.
Or maybe she’s opening for Gov’t Mule.
Source: Kotaku.com
This animated short, created by students at Bezalel Academy of the Arts, deals with a mother trying to get her video game loving child to go out and play. There’s a few specific and clever references to specific games in the whole video.
The Slingshot Content Pack will feature some new Council missions for XCOM: Enemy Unknown players looking for some variety. Players will find themselves battling the aliens both on the ground and in the skies over China, along with more squad customization and a unique Triad operative.
Zac Levi goes behind the scenes with composer Jason Graves and the audio team of Tomb Raider to find out more about the game’s aural components.
Seeing Instagram photos pop up in Twitter cards are no more, or at least they soon will be. Twitter users have started noticing weird cropping issues in Instagram photos linked in tweets. According to Instagram, photos stored on their service will eventually stop appearing on Twitter altogether. Instead when users click on a photo link in a tweet, they’ll be taken back to where it’s stored on Instagram.
Instagram founder and CEO Kevin Systrom acknowledged the change while speaking at LaWeb conference in Paris, calling it “an evolution of where we want links to our content to go.”
Systrom also denied that the decision is influenced by their parent Facebook or that it has anything to do with Twitter not making its Find Friends mobile app compatible with Instagram.
For its part, Twitter has released this official statement: “Users are experiencing issues with viewing Instagram photos on Twitter. Issues include cropped images. This is due to Instagram disabling its Twitter cards integration, and as a result, photos are being displayed using a pre-cards experience. So, when users click on Tweets with an Instagram link, photos appear cropped.”
Source: TechCrunch
Originally premiering in a commercial spot during the Super Bowl, Mrs. Brown is the new sassy personality representing M&Ms in the U.S.A.
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Check out her curated Pandora station and check out tracks by the Cowboy Junkies, The Sundays, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions and Cat Power.
Chat with Mrs. Brown live on the official M&Ms Facebook page.
Add your photo and a caption to the official M&Ms Mrs. Brown Mosaic and be part of herstory.
The series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn has released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy. It can be purchased all three ways right now at Amazon.
The web series debuted on Machinima Prime, costing nearly $10 million to produce but drawing almost universal acclaim. Catch the first episode here.
