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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was the New Year No.1 in the latest GfK Chart-Track Top 40. The game was also the Christmas No.1, and secures its fifth time at the top of the charts with a 20 per cent improvement in sales. Activision’s FPS has reportedly suffered a weaker-than-usual …
Read More »FIFA 15 is UK’s biggest video game of 2014, but it can’t match Frozen
The Entertainment Retailer’s Association has once again revealed the 20 best selling video games, movies and albums of 2014 in the UK. And not a single parent will be surprised to discover that Disney’s Frozen tops the list. That movie sold a staggering 4.012m copies last year, which is 1.34m …
Read More »How well did Call of Duty do? Find out… this afternoon (maybe)
The UK games retail charts will not be available until this afternoon, MCV can reveal. It has been a big week for games retail with the launch of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare arriving on Tuesday (or was it Monday?) last week. So we’re all on tenterhooks to discover just …
Read More »UPDATE: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare blocks SharePlay on PS4
PS4 owners are not able to use Sony’s new SharePlay feature to access Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. GameSpot reports that the gameplay footage is censored on the console owned by the user attempting to remotely stream the gameplay. Sony has previously said that the feature would be usable on …
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