In what’s likely to be a blow against trolls and overzealous console fanboys, the NPD – who has routinely supplied monthly console hardware sales figures – have announced that they will no longer be doing so. How in the hell are fanboys supposed to anonymously point digital fingers and laugh over the internet, misguidedly pointing out that “Hurr durr …

The NPD group (the American market research group that analyses pretty much everything you can think of) has released some fresh and rather surprising information on the amount of console gamers who make use of downloadable content across America. For a country with the kind of connectivity that it has, the results might surprise you. The research, dubbed “The Connected …

It was bound to happen sooner or later; NPD has released market research for the first six months of 2010. Their findings have shown that digital downloads have sold more than physical copies of games from retail stores and online shops. Of course, their findings are based on market research conducted in America, but seeing as the USA is the …

Are people over the Wii and its motion-controlled gaming? Is that fad coming to an end? Well, it possibly would have been, had Microsoft and Sony not been so keen to introduce their own waggle via Kinect and Move respectively. As evidenced by the latest NPD figures the once insurmountable Wii seems to be in a steady decline – while …

With the release of the new slim and trim Xbox 360 it would be no surprise to see Microsoft running to the top of the NPD sales charts for a short while just as Sony did last year. And with the July NPD results out we see Microsoft sitting pretty at the top but if you look closely you will …

It was teased last week that Microsoft would be walking away with the console prize in June and at the same time it is no surprise that Rockstar are on top of the software sales though Super Mario Galaxy 2 did push them right to the end. On the home console front Microsoft leads sales in the States with 451 …

I think as mere mortals we sometimes forget how large certain things are, I for example cannot fathom how large or deep the ocean is. It freaks me out and unsettles me whenever I think about… that may be a severe psychological problem but I can live with it. On the other hand we all know that Halo 3 is …

If you’re one of the many who get a kick from monthly hardware and software figures, I’m afraid you’ll not be getting your NPD kicks for a while. The chart-tracking company has delayed the most recent results for a period of “up to three weeks”. Last Updated: June 3, 2010