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The UK digital sales charts have been a long time coming, but Sega’s John Clark is confident the industry will be satisfied. The managing director for Sega’s UK arm also heads up the publisher’s digital projects, and has been involved with the creation of the digital charts from the beginning.While …
Read More »Just Dance 3 smashes sales of predecessor
Any fears that the dancing game craze had passed have been well and truly dispelled following the release of some impressive statistics from publisher Ubisoft. Worldwide sales of Just Dance 3, which was released in October for Wii and Xbox 360, are tracking 85 per cent ahead of its predecessor …
Read More »Scribblenauts Remix topples Angry Birds
It probably won’t last long, but hats off to Warner this morning for toppling Rovio’s Angry Birds from atop of the Apple App Store listings. Warner recently cut the price of the game to 69p – the lowest possible price point for a game on the service. Scribblenauts Remix, which …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Moshi Monsters beats MW3… on the DS
Trying to better Call of Duty at its own game is a pointless task, right? Trying to chart ahead of the new Call of Duty in its debut week is absurd. Or maybe not. For although Modern Warfare 3 may have re-written the UK record books, a quick look at …
Read More »EA shoots and scores in October
Huge sales of FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3 saw EA dominate the boxed games market in the UK last month, according to GfK?Chart-Track. The football sim topped the charts, while Battlefield 3 had to settle for second place. Battlefield’s achievement is notable as the game was only on sale for …
Read More »US market grows – but not by much
The US video games market managed to grow year-on-year in October, but by a far smaller margin that some analysts had predicted. The overall market grew one per cent to $1.08bn, with software climbing three per cent ($621.3m) and hardware six per cent ($295.6). Accessories fell five per cent to …
Read More »Japanese 3DS sales rocket as Super Mario 3D Land arrives
Nintendo’s 3DS was given a welcome boost in the Japanese charts last week thanks to the arrival of Super Mario 3D Land. Sales of the console more than doubled from 65,041 last week to 145,271, according to Andriasang. That’s more than every other console combined. PSP came second (27,952) followed …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Yes, Battlefield 3 is No.1
EA’s marketing drive has been a success with news that DICE developed shooter Battlefield 3 is the new UK No.1. It sold enough copies to become the 10th biggest week one seller in UK history. In revenue terms it’s the ninth biggest. Compared to EA’s 2010 shooting release Medal of …
Read More »Dark Souls debuts at No.1 in Japan
Ahead of its release in the UK this Friday (October 7th) Namco Bandai’s famously hard RPG Dark Souls has debuted at No.1 in the weekly Japanese software charts. The game, which is a PS3 exclusive in Japan, sold 279,567 units according to MediaCreate figures. Sony’s Ico & Shadow of the …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA 12 smashes FIFA 11 records
EA’s FIFA 12 has shot to the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week in an impressive way. The game enjoyed the third strongest launch week ever for a multi-platform release in the UK. It also outstripped FIFA 11’s week one performance by 18 per …
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