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Steam’s current surprise hit is on the cusp of a big sales milestone. PC Gamer reports that Stardew Valley has to date sold around 425k copies. That’s in just 12 days since its launch at the end of February. The game, which has been likened to Harvest Moon, came out …
Read More »Analyst trims virtual reality sales forecast by 30 per cent
SuperData now reckons the new virtual reality sector will make nearly a third less money this year than it had originally forecast. VentureBeat reports that while its previous prediction pegged 2016 VR sales at $5.1bn, it now believes $3.6bn is more realistic. It says the change is due to an …
Read More »Far Cry Primal holds Twilight Princess HD from No1
The latest entry in Ubisoft’s Far Cry series holds fast at No.1 in the UK this week. The Stone Age survival game saw a 64 per cent drop in sales as a PC version launched alongside its PS4 and Xbox One brethren. The title holds off competition from Nintendo’s re-release …
Read More »Original Pokémon games back on top in Japan for series’ 20th anniversary
It’s 1996 again – Pokmon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow took the No.1 spot in Japan last week according to data from Famitsu. The four titles on 3DS sold 69,234 units between them, but didn’t result in a substantial increase in 3DS hardware sales as one might expect. New 3DS …
Read More »Far Cry Primal and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 shoot to the top of the charts
Two brand new releases fly to the head of the UK All Formats charts. Far Cry Primal shoots to No.1, marking Ubisoft’s first top spot of the year. Games in the Far Cry series normally launch in the busy Q4 period. GfK notes that this is the first entry in …
Read More »Digital Rise of the Tomb Raider sales three times that of Xbox One
It appears that the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider had a strong debut. SuperData’s January digital games market report claims that Lara Croft’s latest adventure sold three times as many copies on PC as it did digitally on Xbox One in its first month. This obviously precludes …
Read More »PS4 will sell 100+ million units, analyst predicts
Sony’s successful PS4 will go on to join its predecessors the PlayStation and PS2 by selling over 100m units worldwide, DFC Intelligence predicts. Only five consoles have ever hit that milestone – the record-holding PS2, DS, Game Boy, PSOne and Wii. Both PS3 and Xbox 360 fell between 10-15m short. …
Read More »Firewatch has outsold Campo Santo’s ‘wildest expectations’
Indie hit Firewatch has out-performed developer Campo Santo’s commercial predictions. The developer announced the good news via its Twitter account, saying: Firewatch has out-sold our wildest expectations. Campo Santo is going to be around for a while and we can’t wait to make whatever is next. Thank you to everyone …
Read More »Call of Duty holds No.1 spot as Street Fighter V debuts in second place
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III claims its 11th week at the top spot in the UK and outperforms newcomer Street Fighter V. No other entry in the first person shooter series has claimed this many No.1s – the previous record was 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 …
Read More »Windows Phone market share falls, overall smartphone growth slows
The market share enjoyed by Windows Phone handsets has more than halved in the last year. The latest Worldwide Smartphone Shipments report from Gartner shows that Q4 2015 shipments of Windows Phone devices fell to 4.4m units, giving it around 1.1 per cent market share of the period. That’s down …
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