April NPD: Mortal Kombat wins for Outworld, Xbox is top console again

The Mortal Kombat reboot rose up against franchise fatigue, an incapacitated PSN, and space-time-tunneling competition to claim the top spot on the NPD's April sales charts. Turns out there's a big audience out there for seeing inside some dude's body as his bones are breaking. Oh, and for accessible, fast-paced fighting games. (But mostly the X-ray bone breaks.)

According to the NPD, Mortal Kombat sold just under 900K copies. Portal 2, of course, came in at No. 2.

Likely as a result of these two games, total US spending was up 20 percent year-over year, from $802.4 million in 2010 to $961.2 million in 2011. Microsoft can also claim some responsibility for the high numbers -- it informed us that the Xbox 360 was the top-selling console last month, moving 297,000 units (a year-over-year increase of 60... (Continue Reading...)

Capcom files trademark for 'EX Troopers'

Capcom has filed a trademark for something called "E.X. Troopers." Your initial reaction might be one of excitement, but that's because you're confusing the title with Exosquad. It's okay, we did it too.

So what exactly is E.X. Troopers? We can safely assume it's a game of some sort but, beyond that, it's a mystery. We're going to guess these are the kind of troopers that shoot aliens (or monsters, etc), not the kind that pull you over on the... (Continue Reading...)


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