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FIFA 15 has remained top of the UK charts for a sixth week running, despite strong competition from Sunset Overdrive. EA’s football giant claimed a sixth consecutive weekly number one – the most chart-topping appearances of any title so far in 2014. The game’s sixth success also puts it halfway …

EA says that on average FIFA 15 is attracting 50 per cent more players online than the numbers achieved by predecessor FIFA 14. FIFA 15 also attracted 3.4m unique players in its first day of availability – a record for the series. Boss Andrew Wilson told investors that overall Ultimate …

53.6 per cent of RPG players are now women, new research from SuperData has discovered. Females also claim 57.8 per cent of the mobile gaming market and 50.2 per cent of the PC market, Joystiq reports. Men, on the other hand, account for 66 per cent of both MMO and …

Civilization: Beyond Earth has taken the top spot on this week’s Steam best sellers chart, beating out last week’s winner Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. The recently released Borderlands title settled for runner-up this time around, while Payday 2 finished third—thanks in part to new content and a discount promotion. Football Manager …

The latest FIFA title is at the head of the UK All Formats Top 40 for the fifth week running, despite a surge from Minecraft: PlayStation Edition. This is the longest that any game has held onto the No.1 spot this year so far. And over the course of 2014, …

Look, we don’t know if it’s an MMO or a MOBA, so don’t shout at us. That aside, however, SuperData research has named League of Legends as the world’s biggest MMO (or digital online game, as we’d probably label it) with year-to-date revenues of $946m for 2014, claiming 11.9 per …

Monster Hunter 4G has remained top of the Japanese software chart for a second week, according to the latest data provided by Famitsu. Capcom’s hugely popular beast-slaying title saw its unit sales fall by over 1.3 million, but given that it sold over 1.6 million last week, it’s unsurprising that …

FIFA 15 has held off competition from The Evil Within and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel to stay top of the UK charts for another week running. EA’s sports game made it a fourth week at the top, matching FIFA 13’s success, according to the latestUkie Games Charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track. …

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel has dethroned Shadow of Mordor to nab the top spot on this week’s Steam top ten sellers chart. The two finished first and second respectively, ahead of Civilization: Beyond Earth – which rose two spots from its position last week. Borderlands: The Pre Sequel’s season pass offering …

Contrary to previous predictions, PS4 DID outsell Xbox One in the US in September. Analyst Michael Pachter had said earlier this week that Microsoft had last month sold 325k units in the region and Sony 250k units. However, while neither NPR nor Sony or Microsoft have released actual numbers, NPD …