This week’s UK chart sees an all-new top three

We forget how long exactly, but a long time has certainly passed since we last saw three new arrivals occupy the top three positions in the UK retail chart. The ultra-violent Dead Island 2 claimed the top spot across the board – it’s no.1 in the multiformat chart, along with the PS4, PS5, and Xbox …

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning breaks UK top five

THQ Nordic are on a roll with their remasters of late with games such as Destroy All Humans, SpongeBob Rehydrated and Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered climbing the chart high at launch. Now we can Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning to their list of success stories – the hack ‘n slash role-player, originally released by EA in 2012, …

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The Switch eShop sees a bumper crop of new games, including Atomicrops, Xenoblade Chronicles, Minecraft Dungeons and three 2K collections

Big-name Switch releases are bountiful this week. In fact, it’s quite possibly the biggest week for the Switch so far this year – there’s a lot of good stuff on the table. Today’s foodstuff puns come courtesy of Atomicrops, incidentally. From Nintendo themselves there’s the anticipated JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition – a remaster of …

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Out this week: Minecraft Dungeons, Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Bug Fables, Atomicrops, more

Hot on the heels of last week’s surprise Mafia Trilogy come another bunch of 2K re-releases, this time for Switch. BioShock: The Collection, XCOM 2 Collection, and Borderlands Legendary Collection make for a busy week for Nintendo’s handheld hybrid, and that’s before taking Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition and Minecraft Dungeons into account. Minecraft Dungeons is, …

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