Call of Duty – Games Asylum

Steep breaks UK top 10 while Dead Rising 4 and The Last Guardian depart

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is the UK’s Christmas number one, becoming the 7th game in the series to take the Christmas crown. Chart-Track claims that it â€œcomfortablyâ€ managed to hold off FIFA 17, which is at #2. Battlefield 1 remains at #3. Watch_Dogs 2 moved up to #4 and then at #5 it’s good …

Eight things that didn’t exist 15 years ago

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Games Asylum is 15 years old this weekend, which means we can finally watch Die Hard. Yippee ki-yay indeed, melon farmers. Much has changed since 2001, so to wish ourselves a very bloody happy birthday, here are eight things that didn’t exist 15 years ago when we started this nonsense. 1. Motion control The first …

Top of the Blops 2

UK Charts

It feels absolutely pointless to report that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is #1 in the UK chart this week, because of course it bloody is. Since last Tuesday it has become the biggest launch of 2012 and the fourth biggest of all time, with 60 percent of copies sold on Xbox 360 and …

And the UK’s Christmas number one is…

UK Charts

…The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, ladies and gentlemen. The mammoth RPG has become the first UK Christmas number one not to be published by either EA or Activision since 2002’s GTA: Vice City. Neither EA or Activision has made #2 â€“ it’s Just Dance 3 that clocks in below Skyrim. Sales between the two were …

Modern Warfare 3 takes an arrow to the knee

UK Charts

A lot of people must have thought the heavy high street discounts for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were too good to miss â€“ it’s back at #1 in the UK chart this week, pushing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 down to #2. It’s a shame that GAME/GameStation’s Â£22.49 deal was only for one …

Super Mario Chart

UK Charts

Mario Kart 7’s arrival means that there are two 3DS games in the top 10 this week â€“ Mario Kart 7 at #8 and Super Mario 3D Land at #10. After the photo above was taken, Reggie was told to stop messing around and go back to work. Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call â€“ …

Skyrim does its thing

UK Charts

With just under two million copies sold in the UK, there was no doubting that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t going to be this week’s #1. However, it hasn’t sold as well as Black Ops did during its launch week, selling 1.6% less. Chart-Track tells us that the Xbox 360 version proved to …

Licensed to ill

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The recently announced Call of Duty Gunnar sunglasses strike us as a very bizarre piece of merchandise. Do hardcore Call of Duty players even go outside that often? Even more bizarre is the Call of Duty Jeep Wrangler – last time we played CoD the microphone chatter was akin to how a classroom sounds before …

Games I keep meaning to play

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As is evidenced by the declining number of reviews I’ve written for this site over the past decade, I haven’t really been playing or writing about as many games as I’d like. Once or twice a year I go manic and indulge, usually every October (traditionally the month of big game releases and nostalgic birthday …

Homefront on the range

UK Charts

Chart Track are bursting with statistics this week. To wit – Homefront has become THQ’s first #1 since UFC: Undisputed in 2009 with an astounding 70% of copies sold on Xbox 360. Kaos Studio’s last game – Frontlines: Fuel of War – managed to get to #4 in the chart in 2008; already Homefront has …

Isaac docks in at #1

UK Charts

So far this year we’ve had a new #1 every week. Last week it was LittleBigPlanet 2; this week it’s Dead Space 2. The original only managed to get to #6 in the chart, so well done EA. I think this proves that games can sell well even in the dark and depressing month of …

Sony unveil ‘Next Generation Portable’ (PSP2)

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The rumour mill has been churning for the last few weeks, with talk of the PSP2 being as powerful as a PlayStation 3 and launching with a Virtual Jeremy Clarkson game. Now the day and hour has come – 3PM January 27th 2011, Japanese time – and Sony are unveiling the next portable PlayStation to …

Top of the Blops

UK Charts

FIFA 11 has been top of the chart for a couple of weeks but now Call of Duty: Black Ops has re-taken the top spot. Kinect Sports has risen from #10 to #5 and this week also marks the appearance of the first new entry of 2011 – DC Universe Online at #10. The Xbox …

2010: The games that you brought lots of

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With the dust now starting to settle on 2010, the UKIE (The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment) have released charts for the best selling games of last year.

To learn that Call of Duty: Black Ops sold a shit load of copies isn’t a massive surprise. To see both Just Dance games in the chart though is a little surprising, as is the appearance of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I was under the impression that it charted quite highly upon release and then swiftly vanished. The biggest surprise of all though is to find that Art Academy was one of the best selling DS games of last year.

The best seller list for PSP makes for sad reading – two of the five games are FIFA. A similar thing has happened in the PC chart too, with both Football Manager 2010 and Football Manager 2011 being present.

You can view the charts in full by clicking on the link below.

Legs eleven

UK Charts

UK Charts This week’s chart is the first since Christmas. This means that a lot of new console owners have been contributing to game sales over the last seven days, and also those who have been out looking for bargains in the sales. There’s a change over on the top of the chart for starters …

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