News just in: FIFA is still popular

UK Charts Only an idiot would doubt that FIFA 11 would take the top spot in the UK chart this week. How many copies have been sold though is really quite astonishing – 821,000 in just one weekend. In total FIFA 11 counts for 51% of all games sold in the UK last week, helping …

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Codemasters’ Formula 1 gets the job done

UK Charts Thinking that Halo: Reach would be #1 until Call of Duty: Black Ops turned up? Think again – after just one week it has been shoved off the top of the chart by Formula 1 2010. It’s the first Formula 1 game to reach #1 since Sony’s Formula 1 2001 over nine years …

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Halo: Reach

Would a Mario game feel the same if Mario was replaced by, say, a shiny robotic baboon? I’d say that it wouldn’t do as some of the charm and the connection between the player and lead character would be lost. Halo: Reach is the second game not to feature Master Chief yet it still looks …

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Halo:Reach is around

UK Charts It’s really no surprise to find that Halo: Reach is top of the all formats chart. It has become Microsoft biggest ever launch week and the 5th biggest ever in the UK, selling 200,000 more copies than Halo 3: ODST did upon release. The PlayStation Move hasn’t done too badly either – Sports …

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The news at X10

Microsoft’s X10 press event is underway. Halo: Reach, Lost Planet 2, Fable III, Crackdown 2, Alan Wake and more got an airing but the real big news is that most of them now have release dates. The long awaited Alan Wake is set for a 21st May release in Europe; Americans get it a few …

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New Game Explosion

Spike TV’s annual videogame award show aired on US televisions last night. Snoop Dog performed live, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves took game of the year and a whole host of new titles were announced. Thanks to the miracle of the internet trailers for the freshly unveiled (breathe in) Batman: Arkham Asylum 2, Star Wars: The …

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