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The latest RPG franchise from Electronic Arts has stormed the charts in its debut week, taking No.1. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is the first new IP to reach the top of the charts since Deep Silver’s Dead Island last September – and the first new RPG IP to grab No.1 …
Read More »UKIE: Digital Chart coming February
Industry body UKIE has announced a digital chart for PC games will be published next month, two years after it began the project. It’s the first measure of downloadable video game sales and UKIE says it will be continually improved in the months ahead. The basic PC chart – which …
Read More »Lack of digital chart is "turning off investors"
Potential video game investors are being put off by the lack of digital data, say industry experts. The UK games industry’s Digital Group – which is supported by UKIE – says it’ll be easier to persuade financial giants to invest in games if they could see the size of the …
Read More »Digital chart would be ‘pointless’
Publishers do not want to share data to make a download chart, says Paul Jackson OBE. Comments from the former EA UK and ELSPA boss come in stark contrast to the message from trade body UKIE, which says the industry must unite and start sharing data. When asked what he …
Read More »OPINION: The digital PC chart
The introduction of the new digital chart presents a significant milestone for the industry. You might not think so at first glance. Yes, it’s just a list of numbers – like every other Chart-Track report. And yes, there are things missing – no MMOs and micro-transactions just yet, and it’s …
Read More »Sales boom puts EA back on top
It’s been a bumper 2010 so far for EA, thanks to a 3.6 per cent year-on-year rise in sell through for the publisher. The latest numbers from ELSPA GfK Chart-Track show EA claim 19.1 per cent of the year-to-date UK software market, driven in no small part by a highly …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Heavy Rain claims no.1
So new, risky IP can’t be a commercial success, right? Wrong. Sony’s hugely ambitious and totally off-the-wall interactive crime thriller Heavy Rain has lived up to the hype and debuted in top spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It’s Sony’s first UK number one …
Read More »How Just Dance became a chart hit
The surprise news that Ubisoft’s Just Dance topped the All Formats Chart last month was, let’s be honest, a bit of a jaw-dropper. While the game had grown in popularity since its debut, rising from No.100 to No.3 in the space of six weeks, few would have expected it to …
Read More »MW2 tops all-time Amazon pre-order chart
Amazon.co.uk has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the most pre-ordered game in the company’s history, racking up double the amount of interest of former title holder Grand Theft Auto IV. The level of interest in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been unprecedented,” Amazon.co.uk’s …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA scores a hat-trick
It’s three weeks at the top of EA’s FIFA 10 in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, despite a strong challenge from Sony’s chart debutant Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Naughty Dog’s PS3 exclusive manages to grab second place in its first week of release, knocking Codemasters’ realistic …
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