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His success record is less then exemplary, but Superman will never give up and is to make his video game return next month. Chillingo has been revealed by IGN as the publisher of a brand new Superman title for iOS devices. Superman features 18 levels and an array of the …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market falls to £26.3m
It’s the post-FIFA blues this week, with unit sales falling 43 per cent to 887,494 and the market value plunging further, down 51 per cent to 26.3m week-on-week. It’s an expected drop, but was perhaps a little steeper than retail would have hoped – it’s a bigger drop than the …
Read More »iPhone 4S tops 3m pre-orders
Around 3m customers have pre-ordered the upcoming Apple iPhone 4S in less than one week. Bloomberg Businessweek reports 3m units of the new smartphone may be sold in its first weekend on sale, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky. That would be almost double the number of iPhone …
Read More »PES 2012 for 99p: Where’s cheapest?
HMV has lifted the lid on yet more aggressive trade-in deals of two of this week’s biggest releases. The retailer will this Friday be selling Konami’s PES 2012 for just 99p to anyone willing to hand over their copy of EA’s FIFA 12. HMV is also offering Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport …
Read More »iPad claims 97% of US tablet market
New research from comScore – ‘Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media Consumption Habits’ – merely consolidates what we all knew: in the US, the tablet market is the iPad market. It also found iPads have also begun to account for a higher share …
Read More »Where’s cheapest? Forza 4 for £4.99, Ace Combat for 99p
Leading UK retailer GAME has unveiled trade-in offers for two of the biggest releases this week – Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport 4 and Namco Bandai’s Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. Forza 4 will be available for just 4.99 for any consumer willing to trade in one of the following titles – F1 …
Read More »GAME: ‘It’s foolhardy to fear digital’
GAME insists it has nothing to fear from digital retailers after backing Xbox Live, PSN and streamingservice OnLive. CEO Ian Shepherd dismissed the notion that he was giving away customers to these digital rivals by promoting them, and reiterated the firm’s strategy to become more than just a retailer. We’re …
Read More »Transformers: Fall of Cybertron confirmed
A successor to the popular Transformers: War for Cybertron has been announced. As revealed by US mag GameInformer, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has been built very much around fan feedback from the last title, with Activision saying that developer High Moon Studios has gone back to the drawing board” for …
Read More »Software Sales Monitor: Market soars to £53.8m
The market value leaped 94 per cent week-on-week to 53.8m following FIFA 12’s release – the biggest week for games retail so far this year. Units are up 73 per cent to over 1.5m. FIFA 12 beat FIFA 11’s launch week with 18 per cent more games sold. And retail …
Read More »EA top of the league with 1m FIFA sales
Electronic Arts has netted 1m UK sales of FIFA in record time. MCV understands that the latest game in the hit franchise passed the 1m unit barrier earlier this week.It means that FIFA 12 has enjoyed the most successful launch for the series to date. According to Gfk Chart-Track, 18 …
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