2020 has been a very strange year for all the publishers and retailers that deal with physical versions of the game, but it’s going to end very soon, with FIFA 21 leading the UK’s boxed sales chart in the very last week of this year. Once again, another set of discounts for FIFA 21 worked
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It was pretty predictable that Cyberpunk 2077 would start its launch week at top of the UK sales chart, regarding the fact that there are no big launches other than CDPR’s highly-anticipated RPG in December this year. Despite its great number of sales at launch, Cyberpunk 2077 still stands behind FIFA 21 in the biggest
Another week passed and the UK sales chart is live again with new data. The new chart hasn’t experienced any significant change, despite some minor swaps at the end of the top ten table. FIFA 21 still secures the first place while Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War is following. Despite a 37% drop in sales compared to the week
A lot of publishers brought their titles with significant discounts to the market during last week’s Black Friday deals, and FIFA 21 has been the best-selling title among all the other rivals. According to GameIndustry, last week was a successful sale experience for most of the big games that had been launched in 2020. Over one
Ever since Google Stadia’s launch in November 2019, users around the world have had wildly different experiences. My time with the console has been relatively latency-free, but other memes and reports from around the internet show that’s not the experience everyone is having with Google’s fledgling cloud-based platform. In hopes to improve Stadia’s performance in
Microsoft has started emailing current Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the United Kingdom to notify them that the recurring subscription price will be increasing soon. Those who pay for the service month-to-month will have to pony up £7 instead of £6. Quarterly subscriptions will cost £18 instead of £15. And annual subscribers will have to dish out £50 instead of £40
Just last week Nintendo announced that they are remaking The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for the Nintendo Switch. With the hype building into a fever dream state, fans are digging up old promotional material for the original game on Game Boy. Some ads may have been better left alone though. Sparked by a reddit post
There aren’t a ton of games willing to touch anything political, with most exploring the notion of games as escapism. It appears developer Sumo Digital couldn’t resist jeering at the political state of Britain in the recently-released Crackdown 3. As a result, UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May and Brexit is finding itself at the butt end of