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This article was written on December 22, 2010 by CyberNet.

Earlier this year we wrote up a review of Solipskier on the iPhone and iPad, and followed that up with some detailed sales stats the developers provided. If you haven’t grabbed the game yet now is the perfect time because it has joined up with five other independent game developers to put their games on sale for just $0.99 each, and that’s not all. They will also be donating 1/3rd of all the sales (after Apple’s cut) to Child’s Play Charity.

What games are included in this sale? Here’s the list along with a brief description for each:

• CANABALT (iTunes Link – Universal iPad/iPhone Game) – Outrun the destruction of your city with just a tap of your finger! The genre-defining, one-button parkour phenomenon is on sale for the first time ever, and runs great on your iPad too.
• SOLIPSKIER (iTunes Link – Universal iPad/iPhone Game) – Solipskier is a fast paced skiing game where you draw the slopes to pick up speed and do jumps. Paint your own cliffs, do tricks and slalom through gates to get huge scores!
• SPIDER (iTunes Link – iPhone Game) – You are a spider. Search for clues as you adventure from room to room on the hunt for your next meal. Build webs of your own design: in the corners, under the furniture, and in the forgotten places too small for humans.
• OSMOS (iTunes Link – iPhone Game) – This award-winning PC game has been fully redesigned for the iPhone, featuring fluid multitouch controls, lush, flowing visuals, and an atmospheric electronic soundtrack.
• ELISS (iTunes Link – iPhone Game) – Your job is to keep up harmony in an odd universe made of blendable planets. Touch-control multiple planets at once, join them together into giant orbs or split them up into countless dwarf planets, and match their size with the squeesars.
• DROP7 (iTunes Link – Universal iPad/iPhone App) – Tetris meets Sudoku in this original, addictive puzzle game. One of Time Magazine’s Top 10 iPhone Games, Esquire’s Best Downloadable Games Ever, and Edge Magazine’s #2 Best iPhone Game of All Time.

There is also a freebie page set up that includes some wallpapers they’ve designed for your iPad and iPhone. You’ve got until December 31st to get your hands on these discounted games, and if you’re on the edge about purchasing them you should keep in mind that both Canabalt and Solipskier had never been put on sale previously.

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Don’t look now, but Lenovo just became an industry bellwether. While reporting strong first quarter results that include a record $8.8 billion in revenue and $170 million in profit, the tech giant revealed that its combined smartphone and tablet sales have overtaken those of its PCs. Yes, you read that correctly — the world’s largest PC vendor is now a mobile-first company, unlike previous title holders such as HP. It’s not hard to explain the shift, however. About 42 percent of Lenovo’s total sales come from its native China, where the company’s predominantly Android-based phones and tablets fare very well. The firm’s Windows PCs and tablets are also performing above industry averages, but CEO Yang Yuanqing makes it clear that Lenovo is quickly becoming a “PC Plus” brand — IdeaPads and ThinkPads are just parts of a larger puzzle.

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Mobile, Lenovo

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Nintendo’s Wii U may not be selling as well as hotcakes, but sales of its 3DS continue to soar which has sparked the company to remind its critics just how well the company has been doing over the years in terms of sales.

Nintendo published a report today where they share just how well their console sales have been ever since the launch of the Famicon in 1983. Since then, Nintendo has sold a total of 268.97 million consoles and 385.15 million handheld units. These numbers include every SKU for all of Nintendo’s consoles, which include the NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii and Wii U as well as its handhelds Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS.

In addition to its lifetime of console and handheld sales, Nintendo also says they have sold a total of 2.195 billion software units for its consoles and 1.907 billion for its handheld devices so far.

It’s interesting Nintendo chose now to detail just how many consoles, handhelds and software units they’ve sold throughout the years considering how poorly its Wii U has been performing ever since its release. Maybe this reminder is exactly what critics and gamers need in order to believe in the Wii U’s future.

Nintendo Sells Over 268M Consoles, 385M Handhelds In 30 Years original content from Ubergizmo.

Ballmer and Co. have been tight lipped when it comes to Surface sales figures, but they’ve just opened up a little to Uncle Sam. An SEC filing reveals that the first-party tablet raked in a total of $853 million in revenue between its debut and June 30th, the end of the firm’s fiscal year. To put that in perspective, the cash Microsoft managed to rake in is eclipsed by a $900 million hit it took through Surface RT inventory adjustments. To make matters worse, the company spent more on advertising for Windows 8 and Surface ($898 million), than its tablet brought in. Though details on how many slates have shipped or sold are still MIA, price drops make us suspect that those numbers are still too modest for Redmond’s taste.

Filed under: Tablets, Microsoft

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We’ve heard a lot of numbers from Apple today, including record iPhone sales for the third quarter, as well as iPad and Mac sales that were slightly down, but still better than expected by the company. However, what didn’t get mentioned at all in the press release or the earnings call was how well the iPod is doing.

In the simplest of terms, the iPod isn’t doing well at all. In fact, revenue for the iPod business dropped a staggering 31% year-over-year, and the number of units sold dropped 32%. This is the biggest hit that the iPod has ever taken in an earnings report within the last few years. The second-biggest hit that the iPod took was Q4 2011 when iPod sales were down 27% from the previous year.

Of course, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, as we’ve known for awhile that the iPod has been on a slow downward trend, even with the iPod touch still getting a lot of love from Apple as the phone-less iPhone device for those who want a portable multimedia player without the communication radios.

Apple didn’t provide specifics as far as sales figures for each individual iPod device, but we’re guessing the iPod touch is up there as the best-selling iPod, while the Nano and Shuffle might be up there as well, but the iPod Classic is seeing its dying day, considering that Apple hasn’t touched it in a couple years, and hasn’t bothered updating it in a while.

This all goes to show that Apple is cannibalizing their own products, but that’s not a bad thing at all. It’s merely the circle of life and the progression of technology. iPods and music players were all the craze in the early 2000s, but it’s the smartphone that’s taking over now, and Apple is more than happy to follow along that route.

iPod sales down 31% from last year, gets no mention from Apple is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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