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It’s a New Year and we have a new UK Number One. Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has seen its reign at the top of the listings disrupted for the second time with EA’s FIFA 11 overtaking it to claim the weekly crown. In the last week of November …
Read More »Big chill freezes UK games market
It’s usually the biggest spending period for the games industry – but the last weekend before Christmas offered no growth for the UK games retail. According to MCV calculations based on exclusive UKIE/Chart-Track data, the UK retail market was worth 78.7m last week – a small drop from 79.6m the …
Read More »Black Ops targets Xmas No.1
With just two days of selling left in Chart-Track’s current sales week, any title hoping to capture one of the year’s most coveted sales crowns has its work cut out if it wants to topple this week’s chart topper Call of Duty: Black Ops. The shooter currently sits comfortably at …
Read More »Games dominate Kindle listings
Amazon’s own-branded monochrome e-reader Kindle is proving a surprisingly popular games machine. Kotaku spotted that according to the retailers Kindle charts, which show the best selling titles of the last 90 days, eight of the top 12 best sellers for the device were games. Games also managed to oust books …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Gran Turismo claims pole
It may have taken its time in getting to market, but the long wait for Gran Turismo 5 has rewarded Sony with a welcome UK No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. To claim the crown Polyphony Digital’s racer had to topple the mighty Call of Duty: …
Read More »JAPAN: Wii sales rise 300%
Nintendo’s 25th Anniversary Mario Wii has gone down a storm in Japan during its first week on sale. The new limited edition console – which comes bundled with a WiiMote Plus, a copy of New Super Mario Bros Wii and a digital copy of Donkey Kong – helped lift week-on-week …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Football Manager is No.1
The Premier League big guns may have had a torrid time at the weekend with both Arsenal and Chelsea dropping vital points, but Sega’s own Premier League title has hit the spot – Football Manager 2011 is the new UK No.1. It’s Sega’s second No.1 of the year after Aliens …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Fable III dethrones Fallout
Fable III is the new UK No.1, having debuted in top position in its first week of release in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It betters the week one sales performance of its predecessor Fable II by just 6,000 copies, becoming the 13th biggest UK Xbox 360 …
Read More »September Charts analysis
FIFA 11 was on sale for jsut 48 hours of September yet still managed to be the biggest selling video game of the month in the UK. 738,839 copies of the football title were shifted over the two days, generating over 26 million, making it FIFA’s most successful opening weekend …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Fallout is No.1
Fallout: New Vegas is the new UK No.1, according to this week’s charts courtesy of UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it beats the week one sales of predecessor Fallout 3 by 29 per cent. Bethesda’s win comes at the expense of last week’s chart-topper Medal …
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