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Revenue up, sales down.

As is usually the case, the UK game industry went through a bit of a boost in March, after a quiet first two months of the year. Even with two of the main players in the console market coming into their twilight years, releases such as Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, and Gears of War: Judgment helped get the cash registers...

Defiance in at 3

Bioshock Infinite has held on to the top position in the UK All Formats chart, despite second week sales declining by a steeper-than-usual 75%. The week wasn't strong for videogame sales in general, with all of the top ten barring Defiance - which enters the chart at number 3 - selling considerably less copies than they did last...

Lara down to second place

Gears of War: Judgment has taken the top spot in the UK All Formats Chart, marking the end of Lara Croft's two-week reign at the top, and presenting Microsoft with their first top billing of the year. After a 44% drop in sales week-on-week, Tomb Raider slips to second position, ahead of another new entry in the form of...

Two weeks on the bounce.

Crysis 3 held off the advances of the erstwhile FIFA 13 this week, to ensure a second week at the top of the UK all formats sales chart. The rest of the chart was relatively quiet, unsurprisingly, with the only addition to the top 20 being a re-entry, in the form of the excellent Red Dead Redemption: Game of The Year...

Metal Gear Defeated.

In an interesting week in the UK All Formats chart, Crysis 3 has defeated Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance to take the top position on the ladder. Only 5,500 sales seperated the two, and the fact that Crysis 3 is also available for PC has clearly made all the difference. 57% of sales of Crytek's title were on Xbox 360...

Signourney Would Be Proud

Monday is up, and that can only mean one thing - the official UK game sales charts are in! Good news for Sega this week, as Aliens: Colonial Marines has blasted its way to the top spot despite more than a few qualms about the final product's quality. It snipes the bestseller position out of the hands of EA's Dead Space 3,...

Sweet taste of success

Halfbrick Studios' Fruit Ninja Kinect was the fourth best-selling game on Xbox Live Arcade in 2011, according to Major Nelson. The sensor-exclusive game outsold hits like Bastion, From Dust and LIMBO to take the fourth spot. Major Nelson says the stats only count "full versions purchased", but there's no...

Hardly a Heavenly Star-t

After months of waiting and hype, last Friday saw the long-awaited release of Child of Eden in the UK, but that anticipation failed to send the game shooting up the charts as it landed at number 25 in the UK All-Formats chart. It was still the second highest-selling Kinect game of the week — Zumba Fitness: Join the Party...

Two risers and three re-entries

With Kinects nestled under countless Christmas trees two weeks ago, it makes sense that the software would enjoy a sales resurgence as families spend their pennies to see what exists past Kinect Adventures. The updated UK sales charts show five titles moving up the ranks, with two breaking into the top ten. Kinect...

"What's 3 x 0?" you ask

Despite most Japanese gamers having to play Kinect in tiny apartments like this, the sensor's launch has still helped Microsoft to shift more hardware than the previous week: three times more, in fact. Of course, a 200% sales increase isn't likely to bring with it incredible sales figures, the machine shifting 7,083 units...