Showing posts with label virtual worlds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual worlds. Show all posts
Monday, 13 September 2021

101 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs sold for $24m

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  "The popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection made a splash in the art world this month with its own Sotheby’s auction for a lot o...
Friday, 10 June 2011

Online game Moshi Monsters has 50m registered users

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"Moshi Monsters, the UK based social network aimed at kids that takes many a visual cue from Nintendo's Pokemon series, has hit a l...
Friday, 6 August 2010

3 million new characters are created in Habbo Hotel each month

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"Habbo Hotel has just joined the exclusive club of websites that can claim ten years online. The public beta of the first incarnation, ...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010

World of Warcraft generated $2m in 4 hours from the sale of Celestial Steed 'pets' to players

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"If you haven’t been surfing through Bilzzard’s pet store in the past two days, you might have missed one of the new pets for WoW: Cele...
Monday, 7 June 2010

Club Penguin is the most popular virtual world among EU kids aged 7-10

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Click to enlarge Source: Dubit, reported by the Kzero Worldwide blog, 8th April 2010
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Friday, 23 April 2010

Some stats on The Sims

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"The Sims franchise celebrates its ten year anniversary this year and an impressive more than 125 million units sold since its launch i...
Monday, 28 September 2009

Teens would rather save money by cutting back on clothes and accessories than console & PC games

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"Shopping for clothes and accessories is the first thing that teens cut back on with 23%, followed by console and PC games (19%), food,...

There are an estimated 400,000 'gold farmers', mainly based in China

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"In basic terms, gold-farming [the production of virtual goods and services for players of online games] is a sizeable phenomenon. The ...
Saturday, 26 September 2009

Habbo has 144 million registered users

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Some stats about Habbo (August 2009): "# 31 local communities # Registered users: 144,000,000 # Unique visitors: 13,000,000 / month # P...
Thursday, 27 August 2009

Over 118 million avatars have been created for the video game Spore by it's players

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Source: Official 'Sporepedia' site retrieved 27th August 2009 (see the box in the top left hand side for the most up to date figur...

Players of the video game LittleBigPlanet have created over 1 million of their own levels

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"Each week the data-miners in our IT department here at Sackboy Central send us a big spreadsheet full of numbers. Some of the numbers ...
Friday, 14 August 2009

Membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in Q2 2009

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"The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 mi...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Chinese site QQ generated an estimated $500m in profits from avatars and virtual goods in 2008

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"In China, a number of services rely on avatars and virtual goods. The most successful is QQ (Tencent, 1998), which recorded an estimat...