The home video game software and arcade machine segment generated more sales and operating income than the rest of Konami's business divisions, which include slot machines and health and fitness segments.Total unit sales for video game software RS Gold were nearly halved year-on-year in the first half. The company recorded 5.89 million units sold during the period, down from 10.05 million a year prior. PlayStation 3 software generated 29 percent of the first-half game unit sales, followed by PSP with 28 percent, Nintendo DS with 14 percent, Wii with 12 percent, Xbox 360 with 8 percent and PC with 3 percent.Top-selling software for the period included the PSP game Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, which Konami said had sales that "progressed steadily." The game released in spring this year during Konami's first half.The multiplatform soccer game World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 Aoki Samurai no Chosen saw "steady" sales (the series is known as Pro Evolution Soccer in the West), Konami said, having been released alongside the World Cup.

Other releases for the publisher during the period were LovePlusPlus, the baseball games Jikkyo Pawafuru Puroyakyu and Puroyakyu Spirits 2010 and the romance sim Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story, among others.The Independent Games Festival's outreach into Asia is part of GDC China, which returns to the Shanghai International Convention Center on December 5-7th, and for which early registration is open until November 5th. Further information on IGF China can be found at the event's official website.Promoting from within can cause companies to lose their best employees, cautions Lucien Parsons, operations manager of 4mm Games (Def Jam Rapstar) as part of a wide-ranging new lecture on becoming a successful game creator. In his IGDA Leadership Forum talk on Friday, Runescape Gold Parsons, a veteran of studios like BreakAway and Zenimax Online, discussed the four major traps that successful businesses fall into, using data from a variety of business schools and publications. We'll discuss his points trap-by-trap.