Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Tops PC Sales Charts

Funcom’s MMO is doing really well in sales, infact, Age of Conan is now No.1 best selling title on the PC platform in Germany, UK, Australia, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Spain. Impressive.

Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan rises to number 1 on the PC charts, and the game even competes very well on the all-format lists. The normal edition is now sold out in many outlets due to the initial success of the game, and Funcom aims to resupply new boxes as fast as possible. With more than half a million customers, Age of Conan is already one of the biggest ever western MMO games, and this happens just a week after launch.

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Doom 4 Announced!

We all knew it was coming and here it is! id Software has officially announced Doom 4. The next chapter in Doom franchise. id Software is currently hiring applicants to work on the title.

Production has begun on DOOM 4™, the next journey into the legendary DOOM universe. We are expanding our internal team and are currently hiring to work on this highly anticipated title.

“DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry to bring the next installment of our flagship franchise to Earth,” said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software.  “It’s critical for id Software to have the best creative minds in-house to develop games that meet the standards synonymous with our titles.”

The DOOM franchise is one of the most recognizable and important in gaming history, having been named “one of the ten most influential games of the decade” by PC Gamer and “the #1 game of all time” by GameSpy.  DOOM 4 will join the award-winning series which has consistently topped sales charts throughout the world.

We are looking for talented, ambitious and passionate individuals eager to join our accomplished team of developers working on the industry’s most innovative and anticipated games.  For a complete listing of available positions, visit our id Careers page.  Resumes can be submitted via email to jobs@idsoftware.com.  All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

Valve: “NPD Group is to blame”

Recently, “PC Gaming is dying” has been a hot topic across many, many forums. This argument was originally sparked when Crysis was released; Crysis was critcised heavily for being overly resource intensive and alienating a large player base by demanding a powerful PC to run on. Hence most people assumed PC gaming had peaked and it was time for it to go downhill… If that wasn’t bad enough, recent NPD sales charts showing poor sales have added fuel to the fire. If that wasn’t bad enough, developers have starting blaming piracy and statements like “Trying to make a game for PC is a freaking nightmare” certainly don’t help. Valve’s Dough Lombardi sat down with GamaSutra to for a QnA session discuss all these matters. Here’s a snippet from the interview:

Lombardi blames the retail-heavy NPD report for the anxiety wave. “That totally ignores the money changing hands, and properties like World of Warcraft with their monthly subscriptions. That totally ignores Steam sales, and any other MMOs and online distribution systems and a host of others… it also ignores things like PopCap games. Peggle’s not in that number.”

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Audiosurf: Steam’s Best Selling Title in February

Audiosurf: Ride your Music, Invisible Handlebar’s puzzle-racing-music hybrid, was the highest selling game on Steam in the month of February. Outselling the likes of The Orange Box and Counter Strike. Audiosurf is developed by Dylan Fitterer, who came up with the design for Audiosurf after six months of running BestGameEver.com, where Fitterer released a new game every Friday. Fitterer’s favorite design produced during this period was Tune Racer, which was iterated and evolved into Audiosurf. Audiosurf is also the first title that use Valve’s SteamWorks distribution technology. Full press release after the jump. Read more