Discounted Bandai Namco software floods the UK retail charts

The latest retail charts are filled with re-entries of older discounted titles, suggesting last week was sluggish for physical media sales. Almost half the top 40 comprises re-entries, in fact. These are turbulent times. Hogwarts Legacy has returned to the top spot, seemingly due to the Switch version being discounted somewhere, as the wand flicking …

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The UK top ten sees three new arrivals, including Atomfall at #2

Rebellion’s countryside ramble Atomfall doesn’t appear to be ‘bombing’ at retail, arriving at #2 in the UK physical top 40 chart. Assassin’s Creed Shadows remains no.1 for a second week. Atomfall is just one of three new arrivals within the top ten. Cel-shaded action RPG The First Berserker: Khazan – also published by Fireshine – …

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows braces itself with a UK no.1

The delays seem to have paid off for Ubisoft. The publisher is currently celebrating 2m sales of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which also claims the top spot in this week’s UK retail chart. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition had to settle for #2, although it did take no.1 in the Switch top 20. These aren’t the …

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II tops the UK retail chart

Another week, another new no.1 in the UK retail chart. This time it’s Deep Silver’s turn to take the top spot with their well-received medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. It was recently revealed that sales have been incredibly strong, with one million units sold within 24 hours of going on sale. It isn’t just …

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Sniper Elite: Resistance controls the UK chart

The UK retail chart sees a new no.1 this week in the form of Sniper Elite: Resistance, published physically by Fireshine Games. It not only takes no.1 in the all formats chart, but the PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series charts as well – despite being available on Game Pass. Ahead of the imminent sequel, the …

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EA Sports FC 24 outsold EA Sports FC 25 at retail last week

The latest UK physical release chart, for the week ending 25th Jan, had us rubbing our eyes. EA Sports FC 24 managed to return to #7 in the top 40, outselling the newest iteration – which is currently at #16, down a remarkable thirteen places this week. Why? The PS5 version of FC 24 appears …

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Donkey Kong ‘rools’ over the UK retail chart

This week’s UK retail chart features the first new no.1 of the year in the form of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. The Metacritic score (78%) is probably lower than Nintendo expected but it appears to be selling well regardless. Two other new arrivals can be found in the all formats top 40. Koei Tecmo’s …

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