news.bigdownload.com - 12/3/2008
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Why is the G-Man smiling? Maybe he's happy because of all the money that has been made by the commercial version of Garry's Mod , the Source Engine -based sandbox game that started life as a small but innovative Half-Life 2 mod. Garry's Mod , created by UK-based Garry Newman, finally turned ...
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Garry's Mod Rakes In Over $3 Million In Sales
The Escapist : Latest News —
... service in November of 2006, Garry's Mod has sold 312, 541 copies. At $9.99 per copy, that totals to over $3 million in revenue, according to Big Download's math . Garry's Mod, which began as pet project for ...
Garry Makes $3 Million
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... You know that little sandbox mod for Half Life 2 called Garry's Mod? Welp, thanks to that little gem, the real Garry behind it (Garry Newman), has managed to bank three MILLION dollars. Well, that's $3m in sales, not necessarily banked. Big Download has that story: ...
Garry's Mod Tops 300K Sales
Blue's News —
A post from a few days ago on Garry’s Blog noticed by Big Download mentions the second anniversary of Garry's Mod going on sale via Steam , offering the commercial version of this mod that allows a great deal of freedom in using Valve's Source engine to create machinima movies and to play with game assets in a sandbox environment. The post thanks Valve, the members of Team Garry, and other contributors for helping make this project so successful, and reveals just how successful it has been, as over 300,000 copies have been purchased over those two years, ...
Garry's Mod Makes Garry Rich [Machinima]
Kotaku —
... out it's not just good for laughs. It's also good for cash money. Since releasing the commercial edition of his editing suite, creator Garry Newman has seen 312,541 (and counting) copies fly off Steam's shelf. At $9.99 a pop, that's $3.12 million worth of Garry's mod. Course, he doesn't pocket all of that, but we're sure he pockets enough to look at himself in the mirror every day and smile smugly. GMod10 is 2 years old today! [Garry's Blog, via Big Download]
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