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Steam’s latest best sellers chart shows Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has taken the top spot for its fourth consecutive week. The latest in the MGS franchise beat out Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which hopped back all the way up to the runner-up spot on the list thanks …
Read More »Plague Inc back on top in iPad and iPhone charts
Ndemic Creations’ disease-based strategy game Plague Inc is No.1 this week in the iPhone charts, and takes second place in the iPad Top Ten. Last week the title was No.7 in the iPhone ranks, while it wasn’t in the iPad Top Ten. Plague Inc debuted on iOS in May 2012, …
Read More »Destiny: The Taken King crowned No.1 in the UK
The first boxed expansion for Activision’s Destiny debuts at No.1 in the UK, according to data from GfK Chart-Track. This is the publisher’s first time at the top spot since Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in Week Six of this year. The PlayStation 4 SKU took the lion’s share of …
Read More »30 million VR headsets will ship by 2020, analyst estimates
Virtual reality headset shipments will reach 30 million by 2020, a new report claims. Juniper Researchbelieves next year will see just over three million VR headsets sold. Hardware revenue from HMD sales is expected to exceed $4 billion by 2020. The biggest market for VR is expected to be North …
Read More »Worst August in 19 years for UK games retailers
Sales of physical games in the UK generated just 22.5m last month, the lowest figure for an August since the mid-1990s. It is the 14th worst month in UK games industry history – 12 of which took place during 1996 and 1997. The only month in recent memory to reach …
Read More »Star Wars: Uprising shoots to No.1 in iPad Free Top Ten
The new Star Wars mobile game Uprising was the best-selling free-to-play title on iPad last week. Uprising was released on September 9th and went straight to No.1. It was the seventh best-selling release on iPhone for the week, too. Meanwhile, Jonathan Topf’s Trick Shot was No.1 in the iPhone Paid …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid V claims second week at No.1, Super Mario Maker debuts in second place
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is top of the UK charts once again. Sales of the stealth blockbuster declined 78 per cent week-on-week. According to GfK Chart-Track, the average decline in sales Week One to Week Two this year has been 67 per cent. Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker …
Read More »Steam top ten: September 6-12
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Mad Max lead this past week’s Steam top ten sellers chart. The Phantom Pain holds its position from one week earlier, while Mad Max moved up a spot from third to second following its launch week. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt finished …
Read More »PS4 topped US hardware sales once again in August
NPD data has shown yet another monthly sales victory for the PS4 in America. VentureBeat reports that Sony says that its console outsold Xbox One in August, just as it has done in every month bar one – April – throughout 2015. It also shifted the most software. We would …
Read More »Games absent from Top 25 US mobile apps chart – report
New data revealing the top 25 most popular mobile apps in the US for June 2015 shows Facebook out in front, while games are no where to be found. Gamasutrareports on new data from analytics company ComScore, which reveals not one game made the list. The firm attributes the lack …
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