It’s going to be at least a week before the analysts return from their million dollar yachts and 5 star hotels to let us know who really won the holiday shopping war but until then we can keep ourselves occupied with the less than accurate sales from online stores and auction sites. First up is eBay which allows people to …

People have been waiting for a proper “next gen” Final Fantasy game for ages. Well it’s out – in Japan at least – and is obviously expected to be a behemoth at retail. Square-Enix have released sales figures after the game’s first 24 hours at retail – and it looks like those expectations are well founded. On just its first …

Microsoft have let us know that Forza Motorsport 3 – the Xbox 360 racing sim we scored high because we’re blind, drivelling fanboys and not because it’s a good game – has sold over a million copies to other blind, drivelling fanboys in its first month. While Microsoft and Turn 10 would have undoubtedly liked more, it’s not bad at …

Christmas is just around the corner and the sales figures are all about to receive a huge boost as the moms and dads of the world head out to buy little Johnny and Suzie that console they always wanted. So to accurately measure who wins the Christmas season let’s take a look at where everyone currently stands according to VGChartz. …

Things like this must really annoy the engineers over at Sony. They spend countless hours researching smaller, faster, better, sexier machines to release onto an unsuspecting public and obviously take great pride in their work due to the quality of the workmanship involved. Then Nintendo wanders past and simply makes a bigger, uglier, simpler version of their popular Nintendo DSi …

The official NPD figures are being released later today but Sony has pre-empted the flood of news by announcing that Uncharted 2 has sold over a million copies worldwide. This is being announced as an achievement but I am honestly horrified, Uncharted 2 is possibly the best game on the platform at the moment and with an install base of …

Bayonetta has been released in Japan already and with the first days sales figures coming in we can now see whether the Japanese are going to be loyal to the inferior PS3 version or are going to fork out for the higher quality Xbox 360 version. Is it all about the gameplay or is pixel count more important? Well I …

Microsoft’s PR team has been on the offensive since the NPD figures were released showing the PS3 as the top console in America. David Dennis, an Xbox spokesman, is the latest to throw his thoughts into the hat and I have to say I agree with most of it. According to Mr Dennis “We feel great about our numbers, and …