Tudou, a Internet video company in China, said it has reached 227 million monthly unique visitors in December 2011. In addition, monthly unique visitors including multiple users accessing from home, office, Internet cafes and from outside of China, have exceeded 300 million unique visitors in December 2011.

In San Francisco, where the games industry is attending GDC, Bethesda's fantasy title, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, garnered "Game of the Year". It was not just major studios that won, but an indie developer Supergiant Games, took home a prize for "Best Debut" and "Best Downloadable Game".