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The long awaited release of Halo Reach last week was the biggest games event of 2010 – but 2009’s gaming champ isn’t much impressed. According to figures from Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the most played game on Xbox Live for the week ending …
Read More »Halo gives High Street reason to cheer
The blockbuster arrival of the latest Halo put the UK games market back on track. The 360 exclusive helped retailers make over 28m in sales. It was the best week for games retail all year, and a far cry from the week prior, when the UK market value plummeted to …
Read More »Halo boosts Xbox 360 hardware sales
Not content with boosting the weekly video games software market in the UK last week, the release of the latest instalment in the Halo saga also provided a welcome boost for Microsoft’s hardware sales. The release of Halo Reach helped increase Xbox 360 console unit sales by 99 per cent …
Read More »MS: Halo Reach sales are staggering
As millions of gamers continue to plough millions of hours into Bungie’s Halo Reach, Microsoft has praised the staggering” achievements that the game has already celebrated. The title shot straight to the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 yesterday, selling 300k copies in the UK alone on …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Halo Reach is No.1
It’s no shock to see Microsoft’s Xbox 360 shooter Halo: Reach shoot straight to the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. The game now claims the title of biggest ever week one sales performer for Microsoft on Xbox 360. The game also becomes the …
Read More »MS aware of Halo Reach disc issues
Microsoft has stated that it is looking to address problems with some copies of Halo Reach that are preventing some gamers from playing the game. A number of consumers have claimed that their Xbox 360 consoles are unable to read the game disc. An isolated report on Maxconsole even went …
Read More »Halo Reach sells 300k in UK on day one
MCV can reveal that 300,000 copies of Microsoft’s Halo Reach were sold in the game’s first 24 hours on sale in the UK. This already puts Halo Reach at number ten in the all-time UK weekly sales league table, leaving it in prime position to climb the listings through to …
Read More »New low for UK games market
The UK games market’s weekly value has fallen to its lowest point since May 2006, according to Gfk Chart-Track. According to MCV’s calculations, based on today’s Gfk-ChartTrack/UKIE weekly report, the UK market has hit 11.8 million for the week ending September 11th, down from 14.2 million the week before. The …
Read More »Halo: Reach arrives at last
One of the biggest releases of the year has finally made its worldwide debut, and store workers across the country put in a late shift last night to usher in the arrival of Halo Reach in style. At GAME’s leading launch event at the Westfields London Shopping Centre, two Noble …
Read More »Halo: Reach price roundup
Halo: Reach is shaping up to be one of the releases of the year having ignited a price war between the country’s biggest retailers. Sainsbury’s is leading the charge with a retail price of 34.99, while Tesco is selling the game for 28 when purchased with an Xbox Live 2100 …
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