$1.28 billion haul, 1% growth ends months of double-digit decline; Sony’s console sells 491,000 systems; Halo 3: ODST sells 1.52 million units; analyst split on implications. In a rare move, last week the NPD Group pushed back its September 2009 US game sales reports until today. This afternoon, it became clear why NPD…

If there’s one wonderful thing we can say about movie game trailers, it’s that they keep us on top of what’s happening with the kids these days. Take for instance Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — we didn’t even know there was a second film coming out! What we can glean from the trail…

Next week’s Rock Band DLC could have been a little Dave Grohl fiesta, offering up tracks from his days back in Nirvana and now with Foo Fighters, but it turns out that he wasn’t with the genre defining grunge band until after Bleach , which happens to be part of next week’s DLC. But, we’re pretty sure…

Five new tracks are lined up for next week’s Rock Band DLC. The White Stripes will make their Rock Band debut with a three-pack of songs, along with a pair of singles from Kasabian and The Damned. Each track will go for $1.99 (160 Microsoft points; 200 Wii Points) individually, with the full White Stripes bundle priced…

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EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich, Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter say weak October sales due to nontraditional gamers not returning to retail, hardware price cuts giving fleeting lift; Activision CFO concurs. True to analysts’ predictions, the gaming industry was not able to lure consumers in increasing numbers to re…

Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a five pack of tracks from AFI and singles from The Bangles and Them Crooked Vultures will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store of Downloadable Content (DLC) for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. Tracks from Dead Kennedys and Sleater-Kinney will be available for downl…

Apple Corps, Ltd., MTV Games and Harmonix have today released The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) as Downloadable Content (DLC) in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is available now for Xbox 360 and Wii, and set to be released this Thursday…

[ Capcom-Unity ] Capcom held a university-themed event Tuesday evening in San Francisco to introduce newcomers to the Monster Hunter universe in the runup to next spring’s North American release of Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii. We’d already played the game at previous events, so we knew what to expect: Monster …

Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced that Rock Band now has more than 1,000 songs available for consumers to play within the Rock Band Music platforms for the Xbox 360