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Retailer GameStop has suggested that the latest cut-price Xbox One bundle is selling well. Microsoft’s 349/$399 SKU for the first time doesn’t include the Kinect 2.0 camera and as a result is 50/$100 cheaper than the bundle that does include Kinect. It went on sale on June 9th. "They went …

Mario Kart has repeated what it accomplished in both the UK and Japan by giving Wii U hardware sales a boost in the US. Analyst David Gibson says that the game sold 450,000 units in its first three days of release in America, boosting Wii U console sales by 4.1 …

Mario Kart 8 has topped the weekly Japanese charts and boosted sales of the hardware in Nintendo’s home country. It may not have sent Wii U sales rocketing 666 per cent as it did in the UK, but the game’s arrival did double weekly Wii U sales to over 19k …

Watch Dogs has sold more than 4m units in its first week, Ubisoft has announced. The figure is a new industry record for sales by a new intellectual property in a seven-day span, as well as the best selling launch week ever for an Ubisoft game. Assassin’s Creed III had …

The latest entry in the Mario Kart series has already sold 1.2m units across the globe, says Nintendo. The game launched on Friday (May 30th) and has already become the fastest selling title on the Wii U. It is the second quickest selling title in the series, too. It also …

Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs has become the best-selling new IP ever in the UK. UKIE Gfk Chart-Track says that the game beat the previous week one sales record for a new IP held by Rockstar’s 2011 crime hit LA Noire by an amazing 58 per cent. It also becomes the 17th …

After what has been a very long wait, Watch Dogs has certainly delivered the goods for Ubisoft. The publisher has announced that the open-world action title has recorded the best day one sales for the company ever, outstripping all previous releases. I once said that the buzz around Watch Dogs …

Retailer GameStop reckons that consumers have started showing more interest in Xbox One since Microsoft announced a cut-price Kinect-less SKU is on the way. Microsoft confirmed earlier this month that it would slash 50 off the price of the current hardware with a new 350 bundle that doesn’t include the …

Sony CEO Kaz Hirai predicts the PS4 could become more profitable than the PS2. It is likely that PS4 will become the platform which exceeds the profits earned with PS2,” he told investors, according toImpress Watch,as translated byEurogamer. That’s a lofty goal, considering the PS2 sold approximately 155m units worldwide …

Global games retailer GameStop has seen sales and earnings have shot up after an expectation-hitting Q1. Total global sales for the quarter ended May 3rd climbed seven per cent to $2bn with like-for-like store sales jumping 5.8 per cent. Net earnings grew 24.5 per cent to $68m The retailer said …