Top 10 Interesting Nuggets from the Microsoft GDC Keynote

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  1. The US video game industry revenue is now $18 Billion and continues to grow.

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  2. Games have not only surpassed the movie industry, they have also surpassed the music industry (source: Jupiter Research)

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  3. 7 different Xbox titles sold over 1MM units in the 2007 holiday season

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  4. Xbox has the highest number of games rated > 80 by Metacritic

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  5. As well as an even higher number of games >90

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  6. Xbox Live has unlocked 1 billion achievements

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  7. Over $250 million spent online through Xbox Live (just content/games, not subscription revenue)

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  8. Innovating on Xbox Live - Video is Popular: Halo 3 Save Films has 30% more videos uploaded to it than YouTube on a daily basis (Halo has 100K+ videos uploaded every day)

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  9. Announcing Xbox Live Community Games - Democratizing Game Distribution - Anyone can upload games, but they are going to be peer reviewed by the XNA Creator's community

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  10. With XNA Game Studio 3.0, you'll be able to build games, including multiplayer games, that can run on a Zune (video below).

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