Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs. Now that’s a name ripe for pun making. Had this free-roaming oriental adventure – which originally started out as a new True Crime game for Activision – turned out to be on the smelly side we could have rolled out such one-liners as “this dog should have been put to sleep” and “every …

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Square-Enix still top dog

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 hasn’t been able to dislodge Sleeping Dogs from the top of this week’s UK chart, having to make to with #2 instead. The individual format chart show us that the PlayStation 3 version has proven to be the most popular. In fact, the Xbox 360 version was outsold by The Sims …

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Sleeping Dogs scares off Guild Wars 2

Square-Enix’s Sleeping Dogs is back at #1 in this week’s UK chart. This is likely to be down to word of the game’s greatness still spreading, and Tesco has already dropped the price to £24.47. It’s a new entry at #2 – PC add-on The Sims 3: Supernatural. At #3 it’s New Super Mario Bros. …

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Guild Wars 2 slices the competition

The anticipated Guild Wars 2 has managed to ‘do the business’ for NCsoft, arriving at #1 in the UK chart. It’s the first PC game to go straight to the top spot since Football Manager 2011 back in November 2010. Sleeping Dogs moves down to #2. Then at #3 it’s New Super Mario Bros. 2, …

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Who’s a good boy?

Take note publishers who aren’t either Nintendo or Square-Enix – gamers are quite happy to go out and buy new releases during the summer. Both Sleeping Dogs and New Super Mario Bros. 2 have performed well, taking the top and second spots of the UK chart respectively. Sleeping Dogs is in fact the sixth best …

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Not quite so New Super Mario Bros. 2

After a dull few weeks with very little being released we finally have some exciting stuff upon us. If Square-Enix’s Sleeping Dogs had turned about to be poor no doubt the creatively void journalists out there would be reeling out lines like “This dog should have been put to sleep” and “Every dog has its …

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