Comments on: Sickeningly Rich Men

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:38:37 +0000

It is THE Rogue Trooper!

I bought this game on a whim some time ago, because I used to get the 2000AD annuals at Christmas when I was younger and because it was half price on Steam.

It was a fun little game though I found myself wishing it had been a lot deeper. The controls were fun though, as was the sentient gun you could place and leave to fire at people and the holographic image you could project. It is a shame the game wasn’t a bit longer, or perhaps bigger is a better term. It seemed to aim to be a fairly simple game and never really took advantage of the fun simple control system. Still the comic it is from was always pretty simplistic too. I found myself wishing they had been a bit more ambitious with the game though.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:19:42 +0000

No it’s a Rogue Trooper.

By: Wroth

Wroth — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:15:52 +0000

Is that Dr Manhatten?

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:51:03 +0000

“Hence, the whole list, for all its curiosity value, isn’t a terribly meaningful picture of videogaming in 2007.”

Absolutely. I can’t remember the last time I bought a game in a shop; most of my purchases are through play.com and Steam. Surveys like this just give a completely skewed view of the PC gaming industry, with is then picked up on by the “PC gaming is dying” crowd.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:29:51 +0000

Nintendo! ^_______^

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:13:26 +0000

Wahoo! Great to see SI Games up there, and generally good to see so many UK based devs in there too.

Just a shame it doesn’t take into account digi distribution though, kind of missing a big chunk of data.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:04:16 +0000

Traveller’s Tales Games is listed at number 10 as a British company. Why isn’t that the number 1 independent European developer?

EDIT:

Bought by Warner Bros Entertainment Interactive back in November 2007. Answered my own question.

They paid an undisclosed sum in excess of £80MM, so it’s only going to take them a few years to make that back @ £27MM p.a. (assuming that is net)

By: Alex Hopkinson

Alex Hopkinson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:49:58 +0000

I don’t know if things actually work this way but I like to think that the squillions Rebellion are earning on these licensed games are being used to fund their awesome, ever increasing, line of 2000AD trade paperbacks. My shelves may hate the 9 huge volumes of black & white Judge Dredd reprints, and so on, but I loves it (and who cares what talking shelving units say anyway!).

By: UncleLou

UncleLou — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:24:54 +0000

Really interesting. Have you seen the Top 100 selling games from March 2007 to March 2008 in USA/Western Europe? There is only one PC exclusive there (hint, is not World of Warcraft related).

I saw this list the other day and wondered how credible it is – there are games in there with far lower numbers than what some PC exclusives like Crysis or The Witcher sold (from what we know).

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:24:32 +0000

Yeah, my bad.

By: CdrJameson

CdrJameson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:23:10 +0000

> Rebellion #1 European Studio? What’s Ubisoft France doing there at #11 then?

Not even UK #1. See: Traveller’s Tales, no 10.

They’re the #1 UK Independent Studio, if you look at the small print on their massive double page advert right at the front of the supplement.

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:52:00 +0000

@Acosta; the Next-Gen article also doesn’t include digital distribution and even then their numbers don’t seem that correct, it’s like they’re relying on NPD and just guessing for the Europe stats. If EA, CD Projekt already announced a few months back that Crysis and The Witcher sold more than 1 million and 600k copies respectively then where are those titles in that top (don’t tell me those were all online sales because that’s bogus)? That Orange Box sales number (1.1 million for all formats) seems a bit odd too if you know that Valve said a month ago they already passed 1.5 million copies on consoles alone and that the PC version did much better than that.