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With a lack of new releases hitting shelves, Call of Duty once again retains the top spot in the UK All Formats chart. Activision’s shooter manages with a mere 24 per cent drop in sales week-on-week. This is the sixth time in a row that Black Ops III has been …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops III starts 2016 on top in the UK
Activision’s Call of Duty starts 2016 as it ended 2015: in the No.1 spot in the All Formats Top 40. The title holds pole position, despite a 68 per cent drop in sales, ahead of soccer blockbuster FIFA 16. EA’s football game climbed two places this week and reaches No.2. …
Read More »Adele’s 25 pips FIFA 16 to become the biggest UK entertainment launch of 2015… if we pretend digital doesn’t exist
Unsurprising, Adele’s 25 album was the UK’s biggest entertainment product of 2015 with 2.6m sales, according to retail trade body ERA. But it was very close between the smash hit album and the video game FIFA 16. FIFA 16 sold over 2.5m units, and was on sale for a much …
Read More »UK digital game revenue is double that of physical, says IHS
Forget yesterday’s GfK Chart-Track figures, UK game revenue actually grew by 10 per cent last year. Sales of physical disc-based games dropped 2.2 per cent in revenue year-on-year to 927.6m. But according to IHS estimates, digital game revenue was up 17.1 per cent last year, rising from 1.622bn to 1.899bn …
Read More »UK games retail suffers disappointing 2015, as software sales tumble 6%
More than 28m physical games were sold in the UK last year, a drop of six per cent over 2014. That’s according to the latest figures from GfK Chart-Track. These numbers are actually all the more disappointing, because Chart-Track’s weekly data actually counted 53 weeks of 2015, whereas 2014 had …
Read More »Call of Duty Black Ops III claims fifth UK No.1
Call of Duty: Black Ops III has spent its fifth week in 2015 at the top of the UK All Formats charts. This is despite a 39 per cent dip in sales last week. The shooter’s five-week run at No.1 is a record only beaten by EA’s FIFA 16, which …
Read More »Call of Duty takes the top spot the week before Christmas No.1
One week remains until the UK’s Christmas No.1 is decided and Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III is once again the top dog in the UK All Formats chart. The shooter rose despite a 37 per cent decline in sales this week. Star Wars Battlefront climbs to one place …
Read More »FIFA 16 claims sixth UK No.1, Just Cause 3 debuts in fourth place
EA’s football blockbuster FIFA 16 has claimed its sixth No.1 this year. The title shot back to the top spot last week during the Black Friday sales period, and it maintains its position despite a 41 per cent dip in sales. The rest of the Top Three remains unchanged – …
Read More »November charts: Call of Duty, Fallout and Battlefront cause blockbuster month for the UK games industry
November proved to be a major month for the UK games industry, driven by a trio of major launches – Call of Duty, Fallout and Star Wars Battlefront. Activision’s military shooter sold over 1m units in just over a week. The game is part of the Black Ops line of …
Read More »UK physical games charts still AWOL
Just how did the UK games industry perform during an epic Black Friday sales period? Well, we’re still waiting for GfK Chart-Track to tell us. The firm normally releases its UK physical charts on Monday morning, but the data company said yesterday that these were going to be delayed following …
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