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Red Dead Redemption has racked up a third week at the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, due in no small part to a lack of new entries. The only new release to hit the Top 10 is EA’s The Sims 3: Ambitions, the second expansion …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Red Dead holds the fort
Red Dead Redemption has racked up a third week at the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, due in no small part to a lack of new entries. The only new release to hit the Top 10 is EA’s The Sims 3: Ambitions, the second expansion …
Read More »Red Dead Redemption movie dated
Red Dead Redemption: The Man from Blackwater will air on June 5th at 11:25pm on FIVE USA. The film, which has been built entirely by using in-game assets and technology, airs after 3:10 to Yuma and is directed by John Hillcoat – the man behind The Proposition and The Road. …
Read More »OPINION: Slump? Tell that to Red Dead
Rockstar Games must have missed the memo that the games market is supposed to be struggling. In the face of a heatwave and miserly customers, the firm this week shifted hundreds of thousands of Red Dead Redemption to secure the biggest opening of a single game so far in 2010. And …
Read More »Red Dead makes £10m in two days
Red Dead Redemption has enjoyed a impressive opening weekend, despite suffering from stock shortages on release day. MCV estimates that the Rockstar title generated in excess of over 10 million at retail in two days. The game is set to keep selling in the coming weeks – provided stock levels …
Read More »Rockstar ‘working hard’ to maintain RDR supply
Red Dead Redemption stock may be running low in the UK, but Rockstar has told MCV that the situation should be resolved within days. The current UK No.1 has arrived amidst strong reviews – and huge interest from consumers. Some retailers in fact say they won’t have stock until next …
Read More »Asda and Take Two resolve dispute
Supermarket chain Asda has confirmed to MCV that its dispute with Rockstar owners Take Two has been resolved. The result is that current UK no.1 Red Dead Redemption will at last arrive on Asda’s shelves on Saturday May 29th. MCV revealed last week that a dispute between the publisher and …
Read More »Xbox 360 tops Red Dead sales
Having ridden into town, hitched its horse, strolled into the local saloon and shot all other chart contenders in the face to claim no.1 in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 today, Red Dead Redemption has also given Microsoft plenty to cheer about. Xbox 360 accounted for over …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Red Dead Redemption claims no.1
Despite reports of widespread shortages and a few niggling issues with some major stockists, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption has claimed no.1 in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 in its first week of release. It’s one of four new games to swoop into the Top Ten this week, …
Read More »Red Dead Redemption wowing pundits
The latest free-roaming epic to emerge from the house of Grand Theft Auto has received a rapturous reception from the gaming press and looks to be on target to become one of the highest reviewed titles of all time. Red Dead Redemption is currently averaging 95 per cent on Metacritic. …
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