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Read More »Black Ops claims 4th No.1 as Wii U software dips in UK charts
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the UK’s best selling game for the fourth week in a row. The busy festive shopping period sees sales of the title slip just 15 per cent. It’s only the fourth game to spend four consecutive weeks at No.1 this year, with …
Read More »Johann Sebastian Joust’s Sportsfriends closes in on Kickstarter target
Squeaky bums time. Sportsfriends is just $5,000 off its $150k Kickstarter funding goal with just 11 hours to go. It’s a fantastic turnaround for the project, which includes indie favourite PlayStation Move game Johann Sebastian Joust. Just 20 hours to go. We’re over 85 per cent of the way there, …
Read More »Call of Duty suffers 14 per cent sales decline in first month in US
Month one sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops II were down 14 per cent on the 2011 November sales of Modern Warfare 3, a report has claimed. Gamasutra reckons that the game shifted 4.5m on Xbox 360 and 2.9m on PS3. Sales of the Wii U and PlayStation Vita …
Read More »Analyst says Wii U has US software attach rate of just 1.2 games per console
Longbow Research’s James Hardiman believes that the Wii U has achieved just 1.2 software attach ratio in the US. This means that for every console sold consumers bought an average of 1.2 games. Another way of looking at it is that only one in five Wii U buyers bought an …
Read More »Fate of Bioshock Vita game ‘in the hands of business people’
New, less promising, info on the Playstation Vita Bioshock game last mentioned back in April has come about. Irrational Games head honcho Ken Levine tells IGN that the game remains something he’s interested in, but its fate is currently out of his hands. That is in the hands of business …
Read More »Minecraft 360 edition averaging 50,000 sales a week
It looks as if the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft has a good chance of running down its PC predecessor in terms of sales. Gamasutra reports the XBLA version is still selling between 40,000 and 60,000 copies a week just over half a year from launch. As of the end …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 2-8
Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling titles for the past week, with the release of Far Cry 3 vaulting Ubisoft’s sequel to the top of the list. Black Ops II finished in the runner-up spot, ahead of several titles who made the list thanks to Steam’s Big Picture launch sale. …
Read More »Bioshock Infinite delayed a month, now arrives in March
Bioshock Infinite has been pushed back by a month, Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine has announced. The game, which was previously scheduled for 26th February 2013, will now arrive on 26th March. Levine said that the extra month will give the team enough time to add some extra polish …
Read More »Wii U owners can only download adult games between 11pm-3am
Mature-rated video games like Ubisoft’s ZombiU can only be downloaded from Nintendo’s eShop between the hours of 11pm-3am. This startling discovery, first reported by CVG, stems from a response issued to an Italian Wii U owner. We would like to let you know that Nintendo has always aimed to offer …
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