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Having surged back up the charts to claim second spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track Top 40 this week, Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 should in the next few days cement its position as the UK’s best selling game ever. In doing so it will pass Nintendo’s …
Read More »GTA IV sales hit 17m
As well as confirming the Red Dead series’ status as one of the modern games industry’s big-hitters, publisher Take Two has also updated investors on the latest sales successes of its other blockbuster IP. 2008 release Grand Theft Auto IV has now sold over 17m copies worldwide, meaning that in …
Read More »US: Smash Bros is Nintendos fastest selling title
Having shifted a considerable 1.4 million units since its release in the territory on March 9th, Wii title Super Smash Bros Brawl has officially become the fastest selling Nintendo game ever in North America. A huge 874,000 copies of the game were sold on its first day at retail, and …
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