This week’s UK chart is par for the course

In what was a slow week for UK game sales, Mario Golf: Super Rush had no trouble maintaining the UK chart top spot. FIFA 21 also held onto #2 for the second week running. The rest of the top ten merely saw a slight shuffle, with the only noteworthy occurrence being Switch launch title Zelda: …

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This week’s UK chart, with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built-in

Nintendo was the winner of this week’s UK chart battle, with new release Mario Golf: Super Rush managing to claim no.1 in the all-formats top 40. It wasn’t the only new arrival. Bandai-Namco’s multiformat action RPG Scarlet Nexus – which boasts an impressive 80% Metacritic – entered at #8. SEGA’s Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – …

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Mario Golf: Super Rush, Worms Rumble, Alex Kidd, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Legend of Mana and LEGO Builder’s Journey hit the Switch

The list of publishers behind this week’s Switch eShop assortment reads like a ‘who’s who’ of gaming. There are new titles from Nintendo themselves, Square-Enix, Activision, SEGA, Team17, Outright Games, Merge Games and LEGO. Indie specialists eastasiasoft and Sometimes You have new games out this week too. We can’t forget the little guys. We’re still …

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Out this week: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, Mario Golf: Super Rush, D&D: Dark Alliance, Scarlet Nexus, more

It’s a moderately busy week for new releases, presumably because we’re getting two weeks’ worth of games due to the E3 hiatus. On the agenda for this week, there’s SEGA’s Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game – with an unexpected silly steak, adding daft costumes – Baldur’s Gate spiritual successor Dungeons & Dragons: …

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