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FIFA 15 has held off competition from The Evil Within and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel to stay top of the UK charts for another week running. EA’s sports game made it a fourth week at the top, matching FIFA 13’s success, according to the latestUkie Games Charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track. …
Read More »FIFA 15 stays No.1 for third week in UK chart as Alien: Isolation sneaks into second
FIFA 15 has remained the UK’s biggest-selling game for a third week running, despite competition from Alien: Isolation. EA’s football game held offthe challenge posed by four new games in the Top Ten, according to the latest Ukie games charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track. The closest contender was Sega’s survival …
Read More »Peter Moore on football, FIFA and his ultimate dream
The preamble before any interview tends to last only a few seconds. We normally ask a basic question. Such as: How have you found the show? They give a brief response, and the interview begins. As MCV sat down with EA COO Peter Moore at White Hart Lane – the …
Read More »EA reckons it could make $1bn in DLC sales this year
Sales of additional digital content could reach as much as $1bn for EA in the current financial year. That’s according to Bloomberg, which quotes Longbow Research analyst as saying that the margins on Madden Ultimate Team are through the roof”. Revenue from madden DLC grew 350 per cent for the …
Read More »Chelsea star Eden Hazard joins Messi for FIFA 15 cover
Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard will join Lionel Messi on the front of FIFA 15. For those that don’t know Hazard, he is probably Chelsea’s best player. He scored 14 goals last season and is a damn good passer of the ball. According to EA, he set up 92 chance and …
Read More »EA Sports Season Passes to end next year
As EA prepares to launch its Access subscription model, it seems time is up for the EA Sports Season Ticket. The Season Ticket, for a 20 one-off fee, allows sports gamers to get early access to certain titles and discounts for Ultimate Team packs and DLC discounts. It launch back …
Read More »Tears, tantrums and stunning visuals: The return of FIFA
It’s a great time to be a football fan. We are in the midst of the World Cup in Brazil. The excitement of transfer mayhem is in full swing. And EA has lifted the lid on FIFA 15. Everything is pretty peachy over at EA, too. FIFA 14 is now …
Read More »Amazing Spider-Man 2 takes No.1 from Titanfall
Activision’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 has knocked off Titanfall to debut at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the publisher’s first No.1 since Call of Duty: Ghosts back in December last year. The game outsold its predecessor The Amazing Spider-Man, which peaked at No.2 in 2012. …
Read More »Titanfall holds onto No.1 in slowest week of 2014 so far
EA’s blockbuster Titanfall held onto the top spot with little effort as not a single new release entered this week’s chart. Titanfall takes its third consecutive UKIE gFk Chart-Track All Formats No.1 and fourth chart-topping performance since its launch back in March on Xbox One and PC. Elsewhere in the …
Read More »Happy New Year: January in numbers
January is always a quiet time of the year – this year more so than normal with only a handful of new releases. That didn’t stop a reasonable sum of money being generated by software. 58.5m was made through game sales, which is an impressive 24 per cent rise over …
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