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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of the year – that’s the headline from Activision’s long-awaited sales press release. Some nine days on from the release of the game, Activision has revealed only that the shooter has beaten the sales of any other game, movie, album …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare beats PES 2015 to Japanese No.1
Western FPS king Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has beaten a firm Japanese favourite to the top of the Japanese weekly charts. Famitsu data reveals that the shooter, published by Square Enix in the region, sold 100,996 copies on PS3 to claim No.1, beating the 76,407 units PES 2015 sold …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Twitch streams top 6m unique viewers
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the most streamed launch week console game of 2014, video platform Twitch has announced. 75,000 unique broadcasters streamed the game for a combined total of 327m minutes during its launch week, while 6m unique viewers watched the available content more than 26m times. "Since …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 2-8
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has taken over the top spot on Steam’s weekly best sellers chart. The latest in Activision’s hit FPS franchise beat out runner-up Football Manager 2015, while popular indie game re-release The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth finished in third. Advanced Warfare’s Digital Pro Edition also made …
Read More »PS4 claims biggest slice of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare sales
More copies Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare were sold on PS4 than any other platform, although the overall Xbox performance bettered the PlayStation platforms. Videogamer reports that 35 per cent of the game’s week one sales in the UK were on PS4 and 32 per cent on Xbox One. However, …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare beats Ghosts’ week one UK numbers, tops charts
As revealed by MCV earlier today, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has bettered the week one sales numbers of predecessor Ghosts, grabbing the UK No.1 in the process. In doing so it becomes the fifth biggest Call of Duty launch in the UK. Advanced Warfare’s week one unit sales beat …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare UK sales up year-on-year, says Activision
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was bigger in its first week than Call of Duty: Ghosts. That’s according to Activision based on GfK Chart-Track figures and its internal digital numbers. We are still awaiting the official report from the stat tracker to confirm the claim. It’s actually a little hard …
Read More »Activision believes Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could still outsell Ghosts
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could yet outsell its predecessor Ghosts, the CEO of Activision Publishing Eric Hirshberg has said. Games Industry reports that Hirshberg claims that the publisher’s internal metrics show that purchase intent [is] well above last year” and that engagement with the brand in social media channels …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare hits digital snags on PS4 and Xbox One
Some users who chose to buy the latest Call of Duty via either PSN or XBL are experiencing problems getting the game up and running on their machines. Reports of a problem first arose amongst PlayStation users who had pre-ordered and pre-loaded the game, with Sony acknowledging the issue and …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – where’s cheapest?
Gamers worldwide are as of today able to head out and buy Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. That might confuse you a little as the game doesn’t officially release until tomorrow (Tuesday November 4th), but Activision this year has chosen to release the Day Zero Edition a day earlier than …
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