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Watch out Call of Duty – EA believes FIFA 14 could be the best selling game of the year. The upcoming soccer sequel was unveiled to the press at a special event in Guildford last week. It boasts a number of new features, which EA believes will fire the game …

Warner Bros’ new fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is the new UK No.1. It’s the first Warner title to top the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 since LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes in mid-2012. The game improves upon the performance of its spiritual predecessor Mortal Kombat …

Cult TV quiz IP Catch Phrase is back thanks to hugely popular iOS app Classic Catch Phrase. The game is second in the UK paid iPhone charts behind chat software WhatsApp Messenger and top of the paid iPad charts. In the free listings, meanwhile, King.com’s Candy Crush Saga continues to …

BioShock Infinite remains the boss of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It’s the third successive UK No.1 for the game, although sales declined 44 per cent week-on-week. Square Enix’s Tomb Raider is at No.2 for the fourth week in a row although it suffers a …

2.67m boxed games were sold last month in what was a decent March for retail. That number is a slight 1.5 per cent drop over the same period in 2012, but it’s a big improvement over the significant declines posted in January and February. In fact, games stores generated 70.6m …

UK games execs were left scratching their heads last month after a string of big budget action games failed to lift games retail out of the gloom. Last month UK games stores sold 1,854,954 games, a drop of 19.9% over February 2012. And that’s despite big name releases including Dead …

UKIE GfK Chart-Track has confirmed MCV’s earlier report that Namco Bandai’s Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is the new UK No.1. Last week’s No.1, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II drops to third place, with EA’s FIFA 13 holding firm at No.2. Square Enix’s Hitman: HD …

Namco Bandai is celebrating what some would call a surprise chart victory for Ni No Kuni this morning. The PS3-only JRPG, co-developed by established Japanese developers Level 5 and film animation master Studio Ghibli, will shortly be unveiled as the UK’s new No.1 in the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II is once again at the top of the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the game’s seventh No.1 and the first following its six-week run at the tail end of 2012. It also managed the rare feat of growing sales week-on-week – …

Just two physical games sold over 1m units in the UK last year, according toUKIE and GfK Chart-Track data. Call of Duty: Black Ops II and FIFA 13 were comfortably the No.1 and No.2 sellers last year. In contrast, there were five million sellers in the UK in 2011 – …