Tag Archives: video games

Fitness video games are outselling their DVD rivals according to Chart-Track figures. In the UK, Davina McCall’s best-selling range of fitness DVDs have sold 830,000 copies in the last four years according to the British Video Association. In comparison, Wii Fit has sold 4.4m copies across the UK since April …

As ‘Antennagate’ rumbled on Apple responded with one of the most astonishing press releases ever released – not that any of it stopped the iPhone 4 outselling Microsoft’s Kin by what can only be described as a gargantuan amount. Developer Tim Schafer laid into Bobby Kotick and Microsoft finally confirmed …

HMV wants to be the next retailer to offer pre-owned games online following Amazon UK’s entry into the market. Last week, Amazon.co.uk began buying and selling second-hand titles. Customers can buy pre-owned games from the retailer, check prices using an online calculator and post old games in exchange for gift …

UK games retail sold 1m fewer games during November than it did during the same period in 2009, according to GfK Chart-Track data. Just shy of 9m games were sold at retail last month, while a little under 10m units were shifted during the same period in 2009. But retailers …

Consumers will snap up 3DTVs faster than when they upgraded to HD. That’s the message from SCEE president Andrew House who was responding to questions on when the tipping point will be for 3D in the home. He says that 2011 will be a major year for 3D games, although …

At a time when Britain prepared for what would be an historic general election, the industry was still trying to assess the potential implications of The Digital Economy Bill. Meanwhile, the BBC rocked established games models by announcing four free Doctor Who games while Gizmodo got into all sorts of …

It was a time before the iPad. It was also a time of economic turmoil as the industry continued to battle with the global recession and year-on-year sales continued to plummet. The first three months of the year also saw Project $10 pick up steam, meltdown at Infinity Ward and …

Kids spend too much time indoors watching TV and playing games BLAH BLAH BLAH. Let’s cut to the chase. The headline of this press release reads as follows: "One in five schoolchildren can’t tell the difference between a wasp and a bee, a study reveals today." A cutting edge study …

As was predicted by pretty much everybody last week, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has been named as the UK’s official Christmas Number One video game. The game has now sold over 3m copies in the UK, making it one of only three games to top the 100m mark …

With just two days of selling left in Chart-Track’s current sales week, any title hoping to capture one of the year’s most coveted sales crowns has its work cut out if it wants to topple this week’s chart topper Call of Duty: Black Ops. The shooter currently sits comfortably at …