MCV/DEVELOP News, events, research and jobs from the games industry
The Mario Kart 8 effect on Wii U sales appears to be over in Japan. Famitsu sales data for the week ending June 22nd shows that Wii U sold 8,373 machines throughout the week. That’s slightly less than the 8,858 sold in the week before Mario Kart 8 was released, …
Read More »Football Manager 2014 breaks PC record
Sports Interactive’s hugely successful Football Manager series has claimed another PC milestone. Football Manager 2014 has now broken the record for the most weeks spent at number one in the UK PC game chart, with 22 weeks at number one – 18 of those consecutively. The news comes as Sega’s …
Read More »Wii U sales fall in Japan as Vita sales creep back up
The PlayStation Vita has crept ahead of Wii U in Japan as the momentum gained from the release of Mario Kart 8 has started to wear off. The latest Famitsu data shows that Nintendo’s machine sold 10,366 units in the week ending June 15th. That’s down from 12,576 units last …
Read More »Watch Dogs still No.1 as World Cup game rises up charts
Watch Dogs has held onto the top spot for the third week running in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It does so with in spite of a 47 per cent decline in sales. But EA’s 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil is climbing up the charts, going from …
Read More »FIFA 14 back on top of UK chart; Minecraft PS3 debuts in 3rd
Titanfall has missed out on sixth UK No.1 thanks to fellow EA chart rival FIFA 14. It’s the 12th time the sports title has topped the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, taking it beyond the 11 No.1’s claimed by FIFA: Road to the World Cup 98. There’s a …
Read More »Second month at the top for EA’s Titanfall
Titanfall is the UK No.1 for the second month in a row. Data from GfK Chart-Track reveals that the EA shooter was bolstered by the launch of an Xbox 360 SKU, which accounted for the majority of Titanfall’s sales during April. The game was part of a bumper month for …
Read More »Titanfall edges FIFA 14 to claim another UK No.1
Xbox and PC shooter Titanfall is back on top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the fifth time the game has claimed the UK No.1 spot, although it had to fight hard with EA rival FIFA 14, pipping it by just 400 sales and losing 25 …
Read More »Amazing Spider-Man 2 takes No.1 from Titanfall
Activision’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 has knocked off Titanfall to debut at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the publisher’s first No.1 since Call of Duty: Ghosts back in December last year. The game outsold its predecessor The Amazing Spider-Man, which peaked at No.2 in 2012. …
Read More »The UK download chart is dead
The UK PC download chart has collapsed, MCV understands. It officially launched in May last year, but hasn’t been seen since MCV published the statistics for Q2 2013 last October. The chart was put together by UKIE and stat giant IPSOS. To build it they would receive data from publishers …
Read More »Hitman Go and Spider-Man top UK App Store charts
Square Enix’s bald killer made it to the top of the UK iPhone paid chart last week. This is Hitman Go’s first week at No.1 – it debuted last week at No.2 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 leads the way in the iPad paid charts, no doubt helped by the film …
Read More »