It might be a fairly quiet period for gaming in this post-Holiday period, but that sometimes allows for titles that would otherwise have to fight through busier periods to simply saunter into the top spot. Case in point: New Super Mario Bro...

Despite Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 walking away with the coveted Christmas Number One slot, it seems that the status quo has been restored as we head into 2019, with Electronic Arts' footie-sim FIFA 19 returning to the top of the char...

According to figures released by the number-crunchers at The Entertainment Retail Association, 80% of all U.K. software-related sales were made digitally. This includes games, DLC and other paid items such as FIFA FUT packs and GTA Online S...

The final update of the UK's high-street retailer charts is now live and, as predicted, Rockstar's epic western adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 is this year's Christmas number one.The Christmas Top Ten features a glut of great titles, inclu...

After being briefly usurped last week by the amazing success of Nintendo's crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Rockstar's epic western adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 is back atop the UK Charts.Red Dead 2 is followed up by Electro...

It's mid-December and, hoo-boy, money is changing hands. With cash registers ringing and people grabbing up stuff for Tat-mas, it's been a very profitable week for video game publishers. None more so that Nintendo, whose biggest release of ...

It can't be denied that most games have struggled with physical sales this year. The UK Charts have featured a lot of major titles that saw a serious reduction in the amount of physical units shifted, compared to their previous releases.Spa...

We're at the end of one of the biggest shopping weekends of the retail calendar. Did you spend a lot of cash? I didn't, but clearly I'm in the minority, as the UK video game charts have seen a bit of a shuffle following the high street spen...

I should've seen it coming, of course it was going to happen. We're the country who put Crash Bandicoot back on top, for months, two years in a row. Yes indeed, folks, Spyro the Dragon is flying high, as Spyro: Reignited Trilogy has succeed...

There's very little to report in this week's UK Charts, as the Top Five of last week have successfully held firmly onto the current positions within the last seven days, a foothold they are no doubt hoping to maintain through the Holiday se...

Top titles are starting to take a firm foothold in the UK Charts as the all-important holiday season approaches, with this week's Top Three featuring no significant movement over the last seven days.Rockstar's wild west epic Red Dead Redemp...

Rockstar Games' latest title, Red Dead Redemption 2 has seen the second biggest UK launch in 2018 - as far as physical sales are concerned - debuting at the very top of the UK Charts. The wild west sequel has doubled the sales of its 2010 p...

This week saw the launch of Banda Namco's Soulcalibur VI, a character creation tool that also has some sort of fighting game attached. Despite the endless possibilities and some genius ideas already demonstrated by the community, SCVI faile...

This isn't going to come as a surprise to anybody, but Activision's multiplayer military shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is number one with a bullet, having debuted straight into the premier spot of the UK Charts this week. Particularly o...

Despite the strong critical and fan feedback for Ubisoft's Greek swashbuckler Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Microsoft racer Forza Horizon 4, neither title were able to knock EA's FIFA 19 from the top spot of the UK Charts.In fact Odyssey, w...

Harmless bugs in games are a guilty pleasure of mine. So long as the bug doesn't break the game or produces some kind of Eldritchian horror, I love to see what managed to slip by testers. This week's first FIFA 19 patch, which is live for P...

In a move that may come as a shock to anyone outside of the U.K. Electronic Arts annual football release, FIFA 19 has debuted straight into the number one slot of the UK Charts, usurping the rock-solid grip held for several weeks by Sony's ...

Insomniac Games' PS4 release Spider-Man remains the number one game in the UK Charts, making it now three weeks running for New York's favourite web-slinger, who has already broken records as the fastest selling Marvel game of all-time and ...

Does whatever a spider can indeed, like climb to a high, outta reach area and stay there, gloating down on your terrible attempts to throw a shoe at him. The shoes in this particular case being Square Enix' Shadow of the Tomb Raider and 2K ...

In a move everybody saw coming a mile off, Insomniac's amazing Spider-Man has thwipped its way straight to the top of the UK Charts, also bagging the title of fastest-selling game of 2018 to date within these humble shores.This means that, ...

After F1 2018 and Shenmue 1 & 2 succeeded in dethroning the long-standing reign of Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy in last week's UK Chart listing, things have gone very differently for the two new releases.Codemasters' F1 2018 has man...

It's been an amazing second Summer for yer boy Crash Bandicoot, but N. Sane Trilogy has finally been knocked off of the top of the UK charts, a position it has held for over a month straight.The two games responsible for finally pushing Cra...

"Survival Mode" sounds pretty intense, right? You expect that kind of mode in fighting games, or arcade shmups and other hard-hitting genres, so when I heard that it was coming to Electronic Arts' FIFA 19 I started to fear for the well-bein...

The latest expansion for Blizzard's still hugely-successful MMORPG, World of Warcraft, saw amazing sales in its release week, putting Battle for Azeroth straight in at number three in this week's UK Charts.This mighty debut still wasn't eno...

Despite a couple of new charts pushing their way into the Top Ten of the UK charts this week, nothing is stopping Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy from maintaining its grasp on the number one position.NFL title Madden 19 made a very strong s...