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One million UK sales. 13 No.1 chart positions this year alone. 10m fans worldwide. No, the game we’re talking about isn’t a Mario or a Zelda. Nor is it Call of Duty or FIFA. It’s not even from a Top Five publisher. This year’s best-selling Wii title was Zumba Fitness …
Read More »Cooking Mama series hits 2m UK unit sales
505 Games has confirmed that total UK sales of the Cooking Mama series have now hit 2m units. Furthermore, the brand has shifted 3.5m copies in all of Europe and a massive 12m across the world. It remains the best-selling third-party series on DS since its debut in 2006. The …
Read More »Zumba Fitness 2 out this month
One of the year’s bestselling games will get a sequel in just a few weeks. 505 Games has confirmed with MCV that it has officially signed up the rights to Zumba Fitness 2 for Wii. The game will debut on November 25th. A Kinect version will arrive in Q1 2012. …
Read More »505 teams up with Speedo
Zumba Fitness publisher 505 Games is donning its trunks to support the release of its motion-sensing swim sim. It has partnered with iconic swimwear brand Speedo to promote Michael Phelps: Push the Limit.Consumers can play the Kinect title at Speedo’s ‘Brand Wagon’ awareness tour of the UK and Europe, with …
Read More »What’s Out Today?
Codemasters’ F1 2011 is in pole position as a convoy of new releases race onto UK shelves. This year’s iteration of the best-selling racer builds on the phenomenal success of F1 2010. Highlights include revamped online multiplayer modes, a co-op championship mode and updated rosters. Meanwhile, 505 Games steps into …
Read More »UK CHARTS: There’s no stopping Zumba
With the release schedule utterly stagnant ahead of its reignition at the end of the month, there was little around to challenge 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness which still sits pretty at the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. That’s an amazing eight consecutive weeks …
Read More »505: PS Vita date is only speculative
Some parts of the internet became very excited an hour ago when 505 Games put out a press release entitled Supremacy MMA takes the fight to the streets with PlayStation Vita this fall”. However, the publisher has now confirmed to MCV that this is not a premature date leak, saying …
Read More »Zumba fends off new entries in UK charts
505 Games’s Zumba Fitness holds onto the top spot of the UK GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, despite the arrival of several new entries this week. This is the sixth consecutive week at No.1 for the dance workout game, making for a total of nine weeks at No.1 since …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Hat trick for Zumba Fitness
The success of 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness powers on as the title racks up a third consecutive week at No.1 of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Chart. The game has now achieved a total of six weeks at the top, and this week it outsold the next four titles …
Read More »Cooking Mama 4 ready November
The Nintendo 3DS’ new game line-up is heating up with Cooking Mama 4 due in the UK on November 11th. Publisher 505 Games has confirmed that the latest title in the 8m+ selling cooking simulation series will be out in time for Christmas. It joins a host of other 3DS …
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