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The chart success fort Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs is not over yet. Having had to make way for NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 in last week’s listings, Sleeping Dogs is back at No.1 in the latest charts, although it did this despite a 42 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. Guild …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 2-8
Valve has released Steam’s latest top ten products chart, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once more coming out ahead. The order of things may have remained undisturbed had it not been for the introduction of XCOM: Enemy Unknown to the chart. Pre-orders for the game have it making a strong debut …
Read More »Guild Wars 2 tops ten European software charts
NCsoft has revealed that recent MMO release Guild Wars 2 has topped the software charts in ten separate European countries. One of them, of course, is the UK, there the game entered the All Formats listings last Monday at No.1, knocking Square Enix action outing Sleeping Dogs from its perch. …
Read More »Sleeping Dogs shows its resilience by holding onto chart No.1
Square Enix action title Sleeping Dogs has bucked expectations by retaining control of the UK charts this week. It makes it two weeks at No.1 in the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, despite a 15 per cent drop in sales. The biggest casualties are the two Top Ten newcomers, …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: August 19-25
Valve has announced Steam’s top selling titles for the week prior. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stays on the offensive, holding off Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for the top spot this time around. Pre-orders hit for War of the Roses this week, with Paradox’s upcoming title nabbing the sixth spot. …
Read More »3DS passes 7m in Japan, claims entire software Top Ten
The established Nintendo narrative amongst European journalists seems to be quite negative at the moment, but the story in Japan could hardly be better. The latest Media Create numbers for the region show that Nintendo’s 3DS was once again the best selling hardware of last week, shifting 111,857 units. This …
Read More »Sleeping Dogs beats New Super Mario Bros 2 to UK No.1
Square Enix action title Sleeping Dogs has pipped Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros 2 to become this week’s Uk No.1. The pair’s success comes as the lessening of Olympic fever sees Sega’s duo of London 2012: The Official Video Game and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: August 12-18
Valve has announced Steam’s top selling titles for the past week, with the latest in the Counter-Strike franchise holding its position at the top of the heap. ArmA II (runner-up) continues to sell as well while in the midst of many happenings for its popular DayZ mod. Elsewhere on the …
Read More »Download the Media Special issue of MCV now
The latest edition of MCV, featuring our Media Special, isnow available digitally. This week’s issue contains a 10-page examination of the games media business, looking at how magazine giants are coping with the decline of print, how online leaders are countering the rise of the ‘enthusiast press’ and how a …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Third No.1 for London 2012
The Olympics may be over for the rest of us but not for Sega, which enjoyed a third week at the top of the charts with its London 2012 tie-in. There’s no change in the Top Four, with Mario & Sonic and Warner’s Dark Knight duo still shifting the most …
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