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Rebellion and 505 Games’ Sniper Elite 3 is once again at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It holds on to the top spot despite a 36 per cent week-on-week drop in sales, matching the successive No.1’s of its predecessor. Watch Dogs sits …
Read More »Wolfenstein: The New Order guns its way to No.1
Bethesda’s new entry in the Wolfenstein series has debuted at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. The sixth game in the Nazi-shooting series becomes the second biggest new release of 2014 behind EA’s Titanfall and accounted for a quarter of all physical software unit sales …
Read More »Clever creative iOS game Blek tops UK iOS charts
Simplistic and brilliant iOS game Blek has topped the iPhone charts this week. The game – which has been available since earlier this year – challenges you to slide your finger across the screen to make a black line, which snakes off around the screen. Gamers must get the colour …
Read More »InFamous: Second Son holds on to No.1
Sony’s PS4 exclusive InFamous: Second Son has managed a second consecutive week as UKIE GfK Chart-Track No.1. The superhero title saw sales slip 67 per cent week on week, but that was still enough to fend off Konami’s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, which itself saw sales fall 64 …
Read More »UK No.1 for The LEGO Movie Videogame
FIFA 14 has been knocked off the top of the UK charts by The LEGO Movie Videogame. Warner’s licensed outing is the sixth LEGO game to reach the UK top spot, with the last being LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes last year. Chart-Track adds that one eighth of the …
Read More »Call of Duty still top as Gran Turismo 6 stalls at the green light
Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts has claimed the Gfk Chart-Track All Formats No.1 for the third time in four weeks. The upper reaches of the chart are beginning to form a regular pattern as we approach Christmas, with FIFA 14, Battlefield 4, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Grand Theft …
Read More »Shock – Call of Duty: Ghosts is UK No.1
Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts is, of course, the new UK No.1 according to the latest UKIE GfK Chart-Track figures. However, while most would have expected the shooter to claim the title of second biggest launch of 2013 behind Grand Theft Auto V it actually falls short of that, becoming …
Read More »Batman: Arkham Origins debuts at No.1
Warner Bros third game in the Arkham series has entered the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 in first place. Batman: Arkham Origins only managed to sell around half the units achieved by its predecessor, Arkham City, in its first week although it matches the performance of the first …
Read More »That’ll be the third No.1 for Grand Theft Auto V, then
Grand Theft Auto V has claimed its second successive UK No.1 and its third since release, Gfk Chart-Track has revealed. FIFA 14 manages to hold onto to second place ahead of a brand new entry at No.3 – Activision’s Skylanders Swap Force, although its sales actually fall 35 per cent …
Read More »FIFA 14 knocks Grand Theft Auto V off the top of the charts
Grand Theft Auto V has been knocked off the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 in only its second week. The reason? EA’s FIFA 14, which debuts in first place… although the fact that GTA V stock is pretty hard to come by in the UK …
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