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Sales shift to digital makes perfect sense for this year’s more service-style outing
Read More »Analysis: Black Ops 4 smashes digital records but slumps at UK retail
Sony’s Spider-Man is proof that the right license still has the ability to shift big units
Biggest game of the year to date falls only just shy of equalling Uncharted 4’s week one total
Read More »GAME profits fall despite market growth across key trading period
Concentrating on BELONG arenas for long-term growth
Read More »Toys R Us makes redundancies, all shops expected to close in the next six weeks
Administrators have confirmed that no buyer has come forward to salvage the retail chain
Read More »Ukie: UK games market was worth £5.11bn in 2017
12.4 per cent up on 2016 with gains for physical, digital and hardware
Read More »New year chart update: Xbox down and PS4 up YoY while market holds against digital shift
With two weeks of chart data coming in today, we can announce that Call of Duty ticked off weeks eight and nine at No.1 as well. That now puts its level-pegging with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in terms of consecutive weeks at the top. Congratulations to Activision UK …
Read More »Destiny 2 claims third UK No.1
Destiny 2 has claimed its third UK No.1 in the weekly charts, beating new entries Project CARS 2 and Pokken Tournament DX to the punch. Sales were down 47 per cent week-on-week for Activision’s online shooter, but it was still enough for the publisher to claim itseleventh No.1 this year, …
Read More »Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and F1 2017 dethrone Crash Bandicoot in UK charts
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, becoming the sixth PlayStation exclusive title to debut at the top spot so far this year. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, meanwhile, fell to No.3 after sales declined by 10 per cent week-on-week, allowing Codemasters’ F1 …
Read More »Crash Bandicoot beats Splatoon 2 to No.1
Only a handful of copies prevented Splatoon 2 from debuting at the top of the UK charts this week. Renewed stock for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy allowed Activision’s title to be back at No.1 this week, with sales increasing 59 per cent. With three weeks at the top of …
Read More »Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age pushes Crash Bandicoot off the top of UK weekly chart
Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy remaster has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, finally dethroning Activision’s Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is Square Enix’s first No.1 since Deus Ex: Mankind Divided topped the UK charts last summer, and together with …
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