This week’s UK chart looks quite familiar, with GTA V on top of the charts, sitting above FIFA 14. There is however a new entry at #3, in the form of Skylanders: Swap Force, Activision’s latest attempt to sell children more plastic figurines. Pokemon X and Y fall slightly to #4 and #5 respectively, showing …
This week’s UK chart sees GTA V back on top, knocking FIFA 14 down to #2. With Pokemon X and Y’s sales double that of last year’s Pokemon Black 2/White 2, the first 3DS monster battler arrives at #3 and #4. Then at #5 it’s another new entry – Beyond: Two Souls. Quantic Dream’s last …
FIFA 14 is still the UK’s number one, but that hasn’t prevented Grand Theft Auto V from breaking yet another record – Chart Track reports that it has already outsold GTA IV’s lifetime UK sales. It’s no wonder the GTA Online severs are beyond crowded. Chart Track also reports that FIFA 14’s sales are down …
If any mega franchise was going to be able to dislodge Grand Theft Auto V from the top of the UK chart after just one week, it was FIFA. And that’s exactly what has happened, even with sales of FIFA 14 down 24% that of FIFA 13. Chart-Track believes that’s “possibly due to all the …
It took just 72 hours for Grand Theft Auto V to make more than $1 billion, recouping its massive development cost many times over and making it the fastest selling console game ever. You’re probably already playing it, enjoying the expansive world and occasional hooker killing. Which makes a review somewhat irrelevant, but let’s proceed …
Grand Theft Auto V is this week’s UK number one, of course. Only a buffoon would have thought otherwise. The story lies in just how well it has done. 1.57m copies were shifted on launch day alone, netting revenue of £65m. That means sales were 2.4 times greater than that of GTA IV, leading it …
Grand Theft Auto V isn’t just this week’s biggest release, but arguably the biggest release of this generation. Chart Track has revealed that 1.57m copies were sold on launch day, leading it to become the UK’s fastest selling game ever. The previous record holder was Call of Duty: Black Ops with 1.41m copies sold. If …
At a reported $250 million GTA V takes the accolade as being most expensive videogame ever created, costing even more to produce than blockbusters movies The Avengers and James Cameron’s Avatar. Is it any good though? Of course it bloody is. The embargo lifted at 3pm today, where it was met to overwhelmingly positive reviews …
It has been a good week for Ubisoft. Far Cry 3 is this week’s UK #1, knocking Call of Duty: Black Ops II off the top spot. Not only this, but out of all the publishers Ubisoft has the most titles in the top ten this week with Just Dance 4 at #6 and Assassin’s …