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It has been reported that Grand Theft Auto IV sales have been much higher than expected. In the first week of sales there has been over 6 million copies sold which has reportedly raked in over $500 million in sales. That first week performance blows away the previous record held by “Halo 3″ which sold about 2.6 million units and earned $300 million. First day sales for “Grand Theft Auto IV,” including all pre-orders, totaled 3.6 million copies.

Even those guys at the Pirate Bay got on the Grand Theft Auto bandwagon and posted a nice logo and with some cheeky rips.

Emote Games a specialist production company founded by industry veterans Morgan O’Rahilly and Dave Rose to fund and produce cross-platform, interactive entertainment and to exploit emergent digital channels, will demonstrate its pioneering technology platform to select partners at the forthcoming Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Gamejump.com has reached 14 million downloads in just over 12 months. Gamejump’s model is based around providing mobile gaming content which is ad supported rather than the normal paid downloads. GreyStripe who ownes GameJump took $8.9 million in Series B funding in May.

Gamejump.com features 800 games by 70 publishers and includes a variety of genres to appeal to different users. Gamejump has seen users download an average of 3.4 games each and the number of females users downloading games has been fairly close to the number of male users.

The gaming market place has seen a interest rise in the past few months with the purchase of Club Penguin by Disney for $700 million.