Game sales to reach $81,000,000,000 in 2016!

According to GameSpot, an analyst has done his magic and seen that the future of video game sales is huge. There have already been $66 billion dollars in sales of video games - now, that number is going to climb very quickly to $81 billion!

There's no doubt that games in the Call of Duty series made a huge piece of that money; alongside World of Warcraft and its expansions. Activision-Blizzard got the most out of single games, it seems... Black Ops sold more copies than any other game in history, with around 25-30 million copies sold!

Nonetheless, This is a great milestone in gaming history. Passing eighty-billion dollars in sales of video games just shows how big the industry has gotten and how big it's going to get. 

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6333279.html

Minecraft surpasses 10,000,000 users!

It seems that Minecraft has now been bought by over 2.6 million people! Ten million registered users are on its site. Minecraft is an amazing open world game that randomizes everything in the entire world as you walk through it; the hills, mountains, oceans, caverns, lava pits, snowy alps, low valleys, deserts, forests, etc. Everything is randomized!

Basically, the goal of the game is to gather different types of blocks (wood from trees, stone from the ground, dirt, etc.) and use these blocks to build a shelter... before nightfall. Nighttime is when the zombies, spiders, skeleton archers, skeleton archers riding spiders and many other creepy things come out to kill you... Including the infamous Creeper...

Creepers are the most annoying yet most original monster of them all... Basically, they exist to destroy what you've built. They explode when they come near you and they destroy all nearby blocks... Even if you spent five years building the Taj Mahal in Minecraft, a huge chunk will be taken out of it by one single Creeper... 

This is the face of evil... the Creeper...

Don't let them come near your base! Putting torches around will make sure they can't spawn... they only spawn in the dark. Monsters also spawn in the dark caverns, even during the day or in the darker shadows above ground... so always be aware.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6322010.html

Angry Birds, 200 Million Downloads!

Angry Birds is a game that was released in 2009 for the iOS (iPhone's operating system and iPad's operating system). Angry Birds started out well and is still doing well, today; Angry Birds has now been downloaded over 200 million times!

Angry Birds also has a spin-off called Angry Birds: Rio; this game was made thinking of the movie called Rio, which went to theaters mid-2011. Angry Birds: Rio has sold 35 million copies! Each of these games is sold at ninety-nine cents, so it's no wonder why it sells so well.

Electronic Arts (the epitome of evil game publishers...) apparently bought the game a while back, too; I really think that the Angry Birds: Rio game is really fun (it's the only one of the Angry Birds games that I've played). The game's goal is to shoot the birds at a fortress and try to knock it down to free the birds trapped inside. It's strangely simple, yet really fun! Kind of like the awesome Minecraft...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6314549/angry-birds-hatches-200-million-downloads

Call of Duty: Black Ops, 53 Screenshots

Here are 53 Screenshots from that awesomely high selling and high profiting game - Black Ops. Call of Duty: Black Ops is now the best selling game in the world - having sold over 20 million copies since its release.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/call-of-duty-black-ops/index.html