MAG Blog: If you remember our box art reveal last month, then you may also remember that we coupled statistics from MAG Beta 4.0 and 4.5 right alongside it. Now, the numbers from the open testing period that ended last Sunday (MAG Beta 5) have arrived too – and in fine Zipper tradition, we wanted to share some of those stats with you, our dedicated fans.
NowGamer: The action MMO’s designers have participated in a Q&A session on the latest APB vodcast
"We don’t have any abstract statistics or skills or attributes in APB,"lead game designer Knapp said of the character upgrade mechanic. "Your character’s your character and you play with skill. However, you do have some items available in game that enable you to upgrade your weapons, vehicles and equipment as you play the game…"
Neocrisis: Girls have been playing games since the dawn of time. It’s not news. Sure there were statistics claiming that the percentage of girls was nowhere near the percentage of guys playing but who’s to say statistics are ever accurate? What factors are taken into account when statistics are recorded? Moreover, who’s being polled in these surveys that determine certain outcomes?
Unfortunately, even to this day, being a ‘girl gamer’ (note the usage of ‘girl gamer’ and not ‘gamergirl’) has had plenty of its disadvantages that can account for reasons why being a ‘girl gamer’ sucks. Here are five reasons:
Koku Gamer writes: "EA Sports Head Peter Moore has revealed that Madden NFL 2010 has managed to get 100,000 peak simultaneous users as well as other statistics.
According to Peter,"
GamersDigest writes;
"SouthPeak Games and developer TimeGate Studios today announced their clan and statistics portal for the upcoming Section 8 sci-fi FPS.
This extremely robust online center offers players unprecedented information and coordination for everything they do in the game, along with full clan management and recruitment."
According to W3Schools statistics for July 2009, Firefox had 47.9% market share, while Internet Explorer 6,7 and 8 had 39.4% combined. Chrome had 6.5%, while Safari and Opera had 3.3% and 2.1% respectively.
GrE writes, "Let me once again emphasize that this is a game that is only for HARDCORE strategy fans. If you don’t enjoy statistics, pie charts and intense number crunching, then this game may just give you a headache. Playing as virtually any nation in the world, your job is to manage your economy, workforce and military, in order to become a superpower. You can micro-manage as much as you want, even down to the individual soldier on the battlefield. With thousands of soldiers, that would be a bit of a chore, but the upgraded automation system should make the game more playable to common folk than previous iterations in the series…"
Koku Gamer writes: "With all the anticipation we thought it would be a great idea to put in Fifa 09 and see what the game thinks. After we simulated the game, the result was somewhat surprising. The game picks Brazil to win in penalty kicks taking it 3-2 overall, with a 1-1 score at the end of regulation, going in to overtime. Read on for statistics and real time result."
Kotaku writes: You may be aware, from hanging around the interent, that Japan loves the Nintendo DS. But it takes a nice little mix of pictures and statistics to really ram the point home.
This chart was released by Nintendo today, and shows the percentage of a market’s population that owns a DS. By extension, it also explains succintly just how bonkers the Japanese population has been for the handheld. I mean, over 20% of the population owning a DS? Crazy. That’s one in five Japanese people. Not one in five Japanese gamers. One in five Japanese people.
GameStooge’s Jordan Lund examines the numbers and tries to figure out why mature-rated games like MadWorld, GTA: Chinatown Wars, No More Heroes, and House of the Dead: Overkill struggle to sell in the United States.
Excerpt: "It seems like publishers of mature titles on Nintendo platforms simply cannot win for trying. People complain about Nintendo hardware heavily favoring "kids games", and yet when mature titles actually are released the reception tends to be positively frigid.
The NPD sales results for March were released the other day and among all the hardware statistics were some pretty shocking results for mature software."