Ubisoft’s scurvy simulator fends off EA’s army men

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Battlefield 4 enter at #1 and #2 respectively in this week’s UK chart. Neither however has managed to outsell their predecessors, which can almost certainly be attributed to the incoming PS4 and Xbox One versions. To make way for these new arrivals FIFA 14 falls to #3, followed by …

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Assassin’s Creed and Battlefield: the war of the fours

Two big games this week. You may have noticed. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag first, if only because it started bothering the world on Tuesday. It’s been sailing through a sea of 9s, including Eurogamer, GameSpot and CVG. CVG also lobbed a 9 Battlefield 4‘s way, while Eurogamer and GameSpot went with 8s. It’s not …

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Everyone’s talking about Ty – or not

On mobiles just as any other platform, a very few games generate blanket coverage in the specialist press, seep into the mainstream media, and become so ubiquitous that they’re virtually sat in the corner of your bedroom winking at you. Certainly that’s been the case recently. Boomerang Blast I refer, of course, to the iOS …

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