Mortal Kombat X hits a hot streak

NetherRealm’s disturbingly brutal brawler is the UK’s number one for a third consecutive week. Just one more week is needed to topple Battlefield Hardline’s record of four weeks straight – the longest a game has dominated the top spot so far this year. With a 32% dip in sales and the anticipated Project CARS out …

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Battlefield: Hardline survives chart struggle

Battlefield: Hardline has snagged a fourth consecutive number one, albeit it by the skin of its teeth – Chart-Track reports just 100 copies were between Hardline and FIFA 15, which moves up to #2 this week. Sales were down throughout the entire UK top ten with the biggest faller being Bloodborne. The PS4-exclusive goes from …

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3D off to a slow start

When perusing Chart-Track’s new UK top 40 this morning we instantly noticed that Xenoblade Chronicles 3D hadn’t made a top ten appearance. Our eyes began to scroll down the chart, lower and lower still until we finally we found it sitting at #27. Oh. We can think of two possible theories for the less than …

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Battlefield: Hardline fights off Bloodborne and Borderlands

Bloodborne, Battlefield: Hardline and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection have been battling it out for the UK chart top spot. Chart-Track reports that Bloodborne “almost” became the fourth new IP to enter at no.1 this year, but fell short of the 22,500 copies required to dislodge Battlefield: Hardline. The PlayStation 4-exclusive settles for #2 while Borderlands: …

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Bloodborne review round-up

It may have taken far longer than anticipated, but finally the PlayStation 4 has an exclusive to be proud of. Or at least, an exclusive that isn’t a remake – The Last of Us: Remastered was arguably the first PS4 essential. At the time of typing From Software’s Bloodborne stands tall with a Metacritic of …

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E3: Everybody loves Sony

With last year’s E3 conferences all about the new consoles, this year the games were the centrepiece. Sony were keen on showing us quite a lot of them. If E3 was a fight – and it sort of is, let’s face it – Sony once again stepped it up. Microsoft’s Xbox conference was an improvement …

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