Flagging sales and fewer blockbusters have made it a tough year – but the outlook doesn’t have to be bleak, writes Johnny Minkley The weakness of the official UK games chart was exposed again this week, as Max Payne 3 snatched the top spot ahead of Diablo III by little more than 8,000 [...]
Rockstar Games’ Max Payne 3 shot to the top of the the UK sales charts in its opening weekend, marking the best-selling all-formats release since Mass Effect 3 . The other new entry last week, Diablo III , entered the charts just below Max Payne 3 at number two for the week ended May 12, and according to data from tracking firm Chart-Track. Note … [...]
Activision and Electronic Arts have reached an out-of-court settlement in their portion of the legal battle over EA’s hiring of Jason West and Vince Zampella, reports Bloomberg [...]
Fewer video game releases contributed to a retail sales decline that continued in April with total sales of $630.4 million, down 32% from last April’s $930.9 million, according to market-tracking firm NPD [...]
Michael Plant is chief editor and writer of gaming ezine and blog GamesCatalyst.com, as well as editor of ‘The Independent’’s games review printed in the Saturday supplement ‘Information’. Established in February 2011, Games Catalyst endeavours to bring its unique brand of fact and satire to the videogaming community and, in tandem with ‘The … [...]
Rebellion Developments and 505 Games’ tactical shooter Sniper Elite V2 launched at the top of the UK sales charts last week, while Warner [...]
UK CHART: Modern Warfare 3 returns to top ten, Sniper Elite V2 hits No.1 http://t.co/AKnrG51V #ukgameschart 505 Games’ Sniper Elite V2 has managed to debut at the top of the UK all formats chart for the week ended May 5. The Rebellion developed title also knocks Activision and Radical Entertainment’s Prototype 2 off the top spot on the PlayStation … [...]
Sega’s reported cancellation of the Platinum Games sequel has Nathan Brown fearing for the future of an entire [...]
With Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 , developer Treyarch is promising the unthinkable: It’ll crack the mold that made Call of Duty into publisher Activision’s crown jewel and one of the most successful video game series of all [...]
Let’s give the makers of the Call of Duty franchise some credit here. Activision has essentially colonized the month of November in the last few years, making ever-more-ludicrous sums of beluga-cash off of every new [...]
