It's not as if we didn't see it coming. Sony's sombre father and son adventure, God of War, has handily strolled straight into the number one spot of the UK Charts. Sega also have reason to celebrate, as their roaming brawler Yakuza 6: The ...

This month saw the release of the BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Xbox One. After shifting over 50,000 units in first few weeks, developers Ninja Theory are to donate thousands of dollars to the Mental Health America org...

PlayStation Store is highlighting a small selection of digital games as part of its new "Totally Digital" Spring campaign. The five titles will also receive a price cut for PlayStation Plus subscribers who plonk down a pre-order.The five ga...

It's another successful week for Joseph Seed and co. as Ubisoft's foreboding shooter Far Cry 5 maintains its position at the top of the UK charts. EA's FIFA 18 is still a permanent fixture at number two, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe roaring int...

This week's UK Charts saw very little change, with more than half of the Top Ten's entries maintaining their slot from last week. Leading the charge was Ubisoft's Far Cry 5, which is selling by the bucketful, EA's FIFA 18 and Microsoft's sw...

NIS America has finally released action-RPG title Penny-Punching Princess. The colourful adventure, which launched in Europe last week, is now available in North America, with the publisher putting out a fast-paced launch trailer to celebra...

Eden's Gate just got a helluva lot of new members, as Ubisoft's open-world shooter Far Cry 5 slammed straight into the number one spot of this week's UK charts. The Montana-based iteration is the fastest-selling Far Cry release to date.The ...

Independent UK gaming chain Grainger Games appears to have reached the end of the line. Just yesterday, the company contacted a selection of its stores and told them not to open. This morning, the same message was relayed to the rest of its...

UK developer/publisher Team17, most famous for the Worms series, are reportedly plotting a huge IPO float, in the region of £200 million, on the London Stock Exchange. The financial decision is poised to make the company the biggest t...

In what is easily the biggest shakeup in months, the top four slots in the UK Charts were all captured by debuting titles last week, which forced their way into the big leagues.The string of successful debuts was led by Microsoft's seafarin...

Korean financial publication The Bell is reporting that long-running Japanese studio SNK is preparing to go public on the stock market, alongside plans to buy up Japanese IPs and help boost profits.The report suggest that the funds received...

Vivendi has had its eyes on Ubisoft for years now, buying more and more shares, but that takeover-in-the-making story comes to a close today -- and not in the way many of us were expecting. Ubisoft and Vivendi have reached an exit agreement...

EA's updated racer Burnout Paradise Remastered has slammed straight into number one of the UK Charts, some 10 years after Burnout Paradise' original release. Nintendo's Kirby Star Allies also had an excellent debut, landing the number two s...

Former PlayStation head-honcho Jack Tretton has announced plans to start up a new company, with aims to provide both financial and managerial assistance to small studios on the independent circuit.Interactive Gaming Ventures will use Tretto...

The chart figures were late coming in this week, presumably due to the folks who gather the data having to check it over ten times out of disbelief. Rockstar's magnum-opus, Grand Theft Auto V, which isn't going away until GTAVI, is back in ...

Square Enix have proudly announced, on the anniversary month of its Western release, that NieR: Automata has topped 2.5 million shipments and digital sales since launching in 2017.PlatinumGames' stark-but-chaotic hack 'n' slash title launch...

Indie developer Fatshark have proudly announced that their recently released (as in last week) title Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has already sold over 500,000 copies on PC.The first-person action-adventure sees a band a warriors, the Heroes of ...

One of the more difficult things, for me, about being a gamer is finding ways to display my love for the medium in ways that aren't entirely tacky. Sure, I'm wearing a juvenile Mega Man 9 shirt as I write this, but I try to be fashiona...

Sony are currently offering their European PlayStation customers the chance to sign up for a year of the PS Plus online service at 25% off of its usual price.The service, which offers online gaming, exclusive discounts and provides players ...

The status quo (your dad's favourite band) continues this week in the UK Charts, as EA's FIFA 18, Activision's Call of Duty: WWII and Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V remain a lock in the Top Three.A serious boost was given to some of the Swit...

Capcom have proudly announced that open-world adventure Monster Hunter: World has now seen over 7.5 million combined shipments and digital sales. This makes it the best-selling game in the developer/publisher's history.The latest in what wa...

It's one year since the release of open-world adventure title Horizon: Zero Dawn. Developer Guerilla Games are proudly touting the game's success, which has seen an amazing 7.6 million copies shift on its exclusive home format, PS4.The all-...

One of last year's biggest success stories was the phenomenal re-release of the original Crash Bandicoot games. Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy sold gangbusters upon its PS4 release, holding chart supremacy for weeks and inspiring a host of...

NIS America has announced, via email and social media, that their online stores suffered a serious security breach within the last week, leaking the personal data of multiple new accounts to the hackers responsible.The publishers have since...

Last week, I mentioned how, as we move toward Spring, the UK video game charts were starting to shake up a little. Well, this week put paid to that, as FIFA 18 still sits atop the mountain, while Grand Theft Auto V and Activision's Call of ...