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While the NPD Group has ceased providing weekly sales charts for the boxed-copy PC market in the US, it still hands out its monthly - and often hilarious - lists. Let's look at February's. More »
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It's not until you look at these charts that you realise that PC has been having a big couple of months. More »
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I've got to hand it to Heavy Rain. Or Sony's marketing team. Although I thought the game was pretty good, I also thought it would be a tough sell to Average Joe. Guess not, since it's gone #1 in the UK. More »
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Perhaps because it features environments that are wet, rather than covered in ice, Britons flocked last week to stores to get hold of BioShock 2, which has promptly knocked Just Dance from the nation's video gaming pedestal. More »
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Space and laser guns feature prominently in this week's PC sales charts, last week's consumers opting for aliens and bright-coloured uniforms over olive-grey outfits and the real world. More »
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Just Dance ahead of Mass Effect 2? Sort it out, Britain. I don't care if you have to hit the streets shouting, placards in hand, you sort this out. More »
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Collaborating like they do in times of great need, market research companies The NPD Group (North America), GfK Chart-Track (PAL) and Enterbrain (Japan) have combined to bring us the five best-selling games in the "world" for 2009. More »
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The PC charts were last week dominated by the likes of Mass Effect 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Star Trek Online. No surprises there. So we'll instead focus our admiration on Tim Schafer's Psychonauts instead. More »
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Just Dance's reign of terror has finally come to an end, BioWare's Mass Effect 2 cruising straight into the top spot on the British charts. More »
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Not much has changed in a week in the UK. Wii games keep on selling, Modern Warfare keeps on shooting and Just Dance just keeps on dancing. More »
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It seems our warnings were for naught. And now Britain suffers, with Ubisoft's Just Dance the best-selling game in the country. More »
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Look, Britain. Pull up a chair. It's time we had a heart-to-heart. About Just Dance. And how it's getting dangerously close to being the #1 game in the United Kingdom. More »
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After a Christmas break, we're back this week with some PC sales charts, outlining some of the big sellers (or at least big revenue earners) of the new year period. More »
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Finally, a little variety in Britain's sales charts, as the PS3 version of Modern Warfare 2 and FIFA 10 make way for...oh. Just Dance, for the Wii. Way to go, Ubisoft. Way to go, Britain. More »
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Is there an echo in here? I only ask because last week's British sales charts look an awful lot like this week's British sales charts. More »
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In the penultimate holiday season charts, there was only going to be one system dominating the top 40. And it's not the Xbox 360. Not the PS3, either. More »
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Not going to talk about the top titles this week. Instead, I'm going to talk about a series that isn't even in the charts, a series that even 2-3 years ago would have been challenging for top Christmas honours. More »
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Britain looks set to party like it's 2008 this Christmas, with the weekly sales charts headed by Wii games after what seems like an eternity of 360/PS3 domination. More »
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You laughed when Reggie bet the farm that New Super Mario Bros. Wii would outsell Modern Warfare 2. We laughed too. But last weeks British sales charts show he may be onto something. More »
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Big surprise this week, as Modern Warfare 2's cross-platform domination is abruptly ended after only seven days, with the PS3 version nudged aside by a stealthy, Italian newcomer. More »
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Well, whaddya know. Modern Warfare 2 came out last week, and finished last week as the #1 game on Steam. On Direct2Drive, however, it didn't fare as well. More »
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As expected, Activision's Modern Warfare 2 has marched straight into the top spots on the British charts, breaking practically every sales record it passed along the way. More »
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I was on holiday, so the PC sales charts were on holiday. Now that I'm back, well, you've probably read the headline by now. More »
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Welcome to last week's British sales charts, where a number of games have done the chivalrous thing and kept the seat warm for the incoming Modern Warfare 2. More »
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No let-up for sales of Aion this week, which if it keeps this up may well rank as one of the biggest surprise hits of the year on the PC. More »
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With the game out this week, you'd think sales of MMO Aion would have dropped off. That maybe it was one of those "get in early" types of games, with sales dying down once it was released. Nope. More »
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Last week's charts were dominated by two MMOs, Champions Online and Aion. This week? Same story. More »
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The British charts are a mostly predictable thing. Nintendo games most of the time, football games when applicable, shooters at Christmas. But last week threw up a little surprise. More »
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The NPD Group always announce the ten best-selling games for the previous month first. Let the glory boys get all the attention. Then, on Friday, they quietly pay respects to the ten games that didn't quite make the cut. More »
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The PC world went MMO mad last week, with both the Steam and Direct2Drive charts topped by the same two massively multiplayer online titles. More »
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No prizes for guessing what the most popular games were on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade last month, what with the release of a much-loved fighter and a modern take on Metroid. More »
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One thing that always gets me about the PC sales charts is the number of times you see a game tagged "pre-sale". More »
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Aion: I'm sorry. I've been ignoring you just like I ignore practically every MMO, but despite your silly name and bland art you are proving surprisingly popular. So, from here on in, I'll try and ignore you...less. More »
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There are sales charts for the US, sales charts for Japan, even sales charts for Britain and the PC, so why not for downloadable games on consoles? Why not indeed. So let's take a look. More »
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I'm going to look past the top PC games of the past week, and focus on a quiet achiever that's doing well on both the Steam and Direct2Drive listings: Hearts of Iron III. More »
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The #1 game in the UK last week was a Nintendo title. No surprises there. But numbers two through four were not. Nor were they EA games, or even Activision titles. They were Codemasters games. Codemasters! More »
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Here's a very good reason why Valve now base their Steam sales charts on revenue rather than sales: last week's Relic sale, which saw Dawn of War, Dawn of War II and Company of Heroes going for a song. More »
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Here's what last week's British sales charts look like: Nintendo, Nintendo, EA, EA, Nintendo, Nintendo, EA, EA, EA, Nintendo. More »
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Sorry about that. Anyway. Yes, Aion is doing surprisingly well for itself, having not only moved enough pre-sales to top the Steam charts last week, but to make an appearance on the Direct2Drive ones as well. More »
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It's been a fun few weeks for publishers not called Nintendo in the UK. But now that Fight Night and Harry Potter have come and gone, it's time for Wii games to return to their usual spot: atop the charts. More »
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