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The United Kingdom market is a very important one for videogames and Nintendo seems to be dominating it in a big way. Looking at the videogame chart provided by GfK Chart Track, Nintendo takes three of the top spots, while six of the first ten games are released by the Japanese publisher.The GfK Chart Track top ten i... |
8 July 2009
02:35 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has had a couple of hard quarters, posting losses and even making some analysts say that the publisher might be ripe for a take over offer coming from a big media firm interested in getting involved in the videogaming business.But the company says that the restructuring process set to make it profitab... |
18 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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There's a sense of deja vu when taking a look at the videogame charts coming out of the United Kingdom. This week, the first four spots are occupied by the same games as last week, which is quite surprising and emphasizes the limited appeal of the new titles released at the moment.Wii Fit from Nintendo is still ... |
14 May 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Wolverine is huge. It is one of the biggest comic book characters in the world, with Marvel banking on its popularity by featuring it in comic series, offering it an Origins movie tracking its evolution and by building a videogame around that movie. Breaking with tradition, the videogame tie in is not just a cheaply ... |
7 May 2009
04:38 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, has announced that it has lost no less than 42 million dollars in the last fiscal quarter of 2009, which is quite a big sum but a narrower loss than analysts expected. In the similar period of the previous year, the company had reported a loss of ... |
7 May 2009
03:57 GMT |
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After a brief period of shaking up earlier during spring, with the release of titles like Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5, both from Capcom, the videogame charts from the United Kingdom seem to be returning to the rather monotonous image of a total Wii Fit domination.Considering that no blockbuster releases are... |
30 April 2009
03:11 GMT |
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EA Sports has just sent word that no less than 500 million on line matches have been played since June 2008, when the company implemented a tracking system. Gamers continue to increase that number by about 2.2 million matches each day, logging in around 4 billion gameplay minutes. The increase over last year is of 17... |
23 April 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Last week, the NPD Group numbers for the United States videogames market came out, chronicling the sales for the month of March. The best sold videogames was Resident Evil 5, the zombie shooter created by Capcom, which sold more about 1.5 million units in one month.Wii Fit only managed to come in fourth in the chart.... |
23 April 2009
04:30 GMT |
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The staying power that Wii Fit, the fitness game that comes packed with a Balance Board and enough exercise options to get anyone into shape, has in the United Kingdom is truly amazing.After being dethroned by Resident Evil 5 for a few weeks in a row, the game has managed to sell better than The Godfather II from Ele... |
16 April 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Resident Evil 5, the zombie-oriented shooter from Capcom, fought valiantly but, after quite a few weeks, was forced to cede the first spot in the United Kingdom videogame chart to the omnipresent Wii Fit from Nintendo, some betting that it will still dominate the chart in a year from now. Capcom should probably make ... |
9 April 2009
03:28 GMT |
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This year’s Game Developers Conference has seen an event that might be considered, a few years into the future, as the start of a new era in videogaming. John Rizzo, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Zeebo, and Mike Yuen, who is a senior director with Qualcomm, have announced the launch of a new gaming cons... |
24 March 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Publisher EA Sports and developer Bright Future have announced the release of the third patch for FIFA Manager 09, the football management game that accompanies football simulator FIFA 09.The update is very important, as it brings the player database up to speed, including all the transfers made during the winter bre... |
3 March 2009
08:12 GMT |
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The week leading to Valentine's Day was certainly a very busy one in terms of gaming for both the average players and for the companies that have released a lot of new information about their upcoming titles, consisting of both delays and new and interesting details and last-minute tweaks. Without further ado, h... |
14 February 2009
07:11 GMT |
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The Wii is expected to do great in January's NPD numbers, when they are released, even as Nintendo is wondering why Japanese gamers are no longer interested in home gaming consoles. To keep the balance positive, Nintendo should take into account the performance it has achieved in the United Kingdom, where only o... |
13 February 2009
02:40 GMT |
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If there's one thing that Electronic Arts has always known how to do is to build up on a successful franchise. The publisher really needs to push its profitable and favorably seen videogames as its earnings reports have been mostly in the red lately and as it has announced it's cutting 10% of the workforce ... |
10 February 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just reported a third quarter loss for fiscal 2008 of 641 million dollars. This is way more than in the same period of 2007, when the loss was of just 33 million. The third fiscal quarter ends on December 31 and comprises the crucial Christmas shopping season, when many videogame publishers releas... |
4 February 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Another week passes and the United Kingdom videogames chart is still being topped by Wii Fit, the Balance Board using the fitness title from Nintendo, which has been selling well ever since it was launched and took the top spot in the second week of 2009. Britons are apparently very interested in getting their exerci... |
29 January 2009
03:33 GMT |
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In the United Kingdom, Wii Fit, the Nintendo Wii sensation relying on the Balance Board add on in order to make people lose weight and improve their health, sits at the top of the sales chart, managing to take down the best sold game of last week, FIFA 09 from EA Sports. The football title, which began the year in th... |
22 January 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Who thought that the first week (OK, “work week”) of gaming reporting for 2009 would be so filled with announcements, reveals and, well, news? If this is a sneak peek of how 2009 will be, then we're going to have a really interesting and cool year. So, here at Softpedia, we're beginning a weekly... |
10 January 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Just before Christmas, FIFA 2009 from EA Sports took the top spot in the United Kingdom Top 40 of videogames, pushing Call of Duty: World at War, published by Activision Blizzard and developed by Treyarch, to number two. Now, in a surprising reversal, the latest installment in the Call of Duty series has staged a com... |
7 January 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The end of 2008 throughout the beginning of 2009 has been a period of chart making and awarding games for the innovations they brought to the industry. We've seen some charts made by Metacritic, but other sites made their own tops, in which they included some games, and, obviously, left other ones out. It seems... |
6 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, competing for number one with Activision Blizzard, which was only created this year. Still, the current economic situation and the big number of AAA titles released in 2008 mean that the company has seen some of its flagship titles flounder and ... |
9 December 2008
14:41 GMT |
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FIFA 09 is the latest installment in the most popular sports game made by Electronic Arts. The company is really trying to make this year’s FIFA extra special, as EA Sports is fighting hard to hold off a determined challenge from the Konami developed Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, which has managed to get good sale... |
18 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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With gamers entering the busiest videogame release period of the year, charts are a good way of seeing how players greet each title; they also allow you to find out what best fits your gaming preferences and budget.Chart Track, the company which reports sales data for the United Kingdom, says that Gears of War 2 has ... |
13 November 2008
05:57 GMT |
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During the week ending on October 26, the United Kingdom videogames market was dominated by two sequels. Fable II, from Peter Molyneux and Lionhead, which is published by Microsoft, comfortably settled in the top spot and is followed by Far Cry 2, developed and published by Ubisoft. Following the sequels are ot... |
31 October 2008
13:51 GMT |
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The United Kingdom videogame chart is a good indicator of how the various releases are doing this fall. After all, the NPD Group data for the North American market is coming out only once a month, while this chart is released weekly. So, let's take a look.The big news is that Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 from Konam... |
23 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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EA Mobile just announced its autumn mobile games lineup for Europe, featuring top sporting titles and action packed racers. Kicking off the new lineup is EA SPORTS FIFA 09, the most authentic football experience EA Mobile has ever delivered, while additions to popular EA franchise Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 provide a br... |
22 October 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Konami has barely shipped Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 and it's already preparing to create and release a patch. Don't worry, it's not one of those day one patches required because the game has some show stopping bugs, but rather a patch which is said to add more content and depth to the title.The patch i... |
21 October 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The weekly chart which ranks videogame sales regardless of formats in the United Kingdom came out to show that FIFA 09 from EA Sports managed to sell faster than any other installment in the series and be the third quickest selling game of the year, with only Grand Theft Auto IV and Halo 3 selling faster on the Xbox ... |
9 October 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Video games are quickly starting to become an accurate virtual version of what happens in real life and Electronic Arts, with its latest installment in the FIFA franchise, plans to prove us that everything is possible. And that is something that really manages to make us actually want to get our hands on the game - u... |
20 August 2008
12:36 GMT |
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When we found out earlier today that FIFA Manager 09 would hit the stores this autumn, we also started to dream about the new FIFA 09 and wondered how much it takes until Electronic Arts announces it, too. As you can see, we were not left waiting for too long, since the official announcement is here, filled with deta... |
1 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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