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The market took another dive this week thanks to the current heat wave, a lack of new releases and the start of the summer holidays. Overall the market fell three per cent this week. The amount of revenue made this week was the lowest it has been this year so …

Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs is at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for the fifth week. The hacking title managed this despite a 12 per cent drop in sales. Last week the market dipped due to the hot weather and a lack of new releases. There …

The latest addition to 505 Game’s Sniper Elite series has gone straight to the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. The title came out on both current and next-gen platforms, with 65 per cent of sales being for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This is …

After three weeks at No.1, Watch Dogs is now in second place inthe UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It was deposed by EA Sport’s UFC. This is the publisher’s third No.1 title in 2014, following FIFA 14 and Titanfall. Watch Dogs suffered a 41 per cent sales decline …

Watch Dogs has held onto the top spot for the third week running in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It does so with in spite of a 47 per cent decline in sales. But EA’s 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil is climbing up the charts, going from …

FIFA 14 has taken the No.1 spot in the UK Chart-Track Top 40 for the eleventh time. Only four other titles have managed this before – Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, Wii Fit, Zumba Fitness and FIFA: Road To World Cup 98. The game’s success means Bethesda’s The Elder …

PlayStation was the only console brand to increase its video games sales last year. According to ERA based on GfK Chart-Track data, the number of PS4, PS3, PS2, Vita, PSP games sold last year was 11.4m, an increase of 1.8 per cent over 2012. These games combined generated 372m, a …

UK consumers spent half a billion pounds on PC games last year. It’s the biggest number in the platform’s history, but if you visited the UK High Street you wouldn’t know it. The boxed PC market has suffered its steepest decline yet, with 42.7m made from the sale of physical …

PS4 and Xbox One posted incredible sales figures in the UK, with Sony coming out on top. PlayStation 4 has sold 530,000 units in the UK in just five weeks, according to ERA (using Chart-Track data), while Xbox One has sold 364,000 units. It’s a significant gap between the two …

The FIFA 14 comeback is complete, as EA’s football title is Christmas and New Year No.1. The game’s initial launch sales were lower than its predecessor – FIFA 13 – which remains the fastest-selling FIFA game to-date. But FIFA 14 has now overtaken it and is on track to become …