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AMD has yet to officially announce the R9 290 or R9 290X, but leaked performance charts suggest Nvidia’s Titan has been dethroned as the world’s fastest GPU. Videocardz reports that said charts suggest the vanilla R9 290X offers a six per cent performance boost over the Titan – and with …
Read More »GTA V reclaims UK No.1; Pokemon and Beyond debut in Top Ten
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V has claimed it’s second UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats UK No.1 after two weeks at the top for EA’s FIFA 14. Nintendo’s 3DS RPGs Pokemon X and Pokemon Y debut in third and fourth place respectively, with week one sales doubling last year’s Black 2 …
Read More »FIFA 14 still No.1 but GTA V continues to chase records
EA’s FIFA 14 has held off Grand Theft Auto V to claim its second week as the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats No.1. Sales of the football game fell 68 per cent in its second week, which is an improvement on the 72 per cent drop FIFA 13 saw in …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4 sales exceed 1.7m units two days out from launch
Capcom’s Monster Hunter 4 has sold a ton of copies out of the gate and, according to the latest charts in Japan,3DS sales are benefiting because of it. VG247 reports on Japanese analysis firm Media Create’s sales charts, showing the game moved more than 1.7m copies in just its first …
Read More »Fourth UK No.1 for Saints Row IV
Deep Silver’s Saints Row IV has claimed its fourth No.1 in the UKIE GfK All-Formats Top 40. With a certain other sandbox game due to arrive at retail this week, a fifth looks unlikely but the publisher will be delighted that its superhero romp has put in such an excellent …
Read More »The digital effect – Total War: Rome II was last week’s real No.1
Total War: Rome II would have been the UK’s real No.1 last week, if we counted digital sales, MCV can reveal. The strategy game was No.2 in the UK retail charts with over 32,000 units sold, narrowly missing out on the No.1 spot by just 200 copies. Yet if you …
Read More »Call of Duty: Strike Team tops iPad chart
Activision has topped the iPad chart with mobile Call of Duty entry, Strike Team. The publisher made no mention of the British-developed Strike Force following its arrival on the iOS app store last week. But the game has certainly made a splash amongst mobile gamers during its first week on …
Read More »Saints Row IV still topping UK charts
Deep Silver’s Saints Row IV has seen off plenty of opposition to remain this week’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 No.1. Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist hangs on to second, too, although last week’s No.3 – Disney Infinity – is knocked down one place by Square Enix MMO Final …
Read More »Saints Row IV tops UK charts in busy week for new releases
Deep Silver has claimed another UK No.1 with new release Saints Row IV topping the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. The game fell short of beating the week one performance of its predecessor Saints Row: The Third, however, although it manages to become the fourth biggest …
Read More »Third week at the top for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
The retail version of Minecraft for Xbox 360 has topped the UK charts for a third week running. The previously download-only hit represents Microsoft’s longest unbroken run at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Chart since the release of Forza Motorsport 2 in 2007. The only new entry …
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