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Top 10 UK Sales Charts: GTA 5 Still Selling Well, Secures No. 1 Spot Again
Grand Theft Auto V is back at No. 1 in the UK physical sales chart for the 10th time, according to sales monitor Chart-Track. For the week ending January 14, Rockstar’s open-world behemoth beat off competition from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which dropped to No. 2 after coming top last week. FIFA 17 fell…
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Official World of Tanks APAC Tournament Kicks-Off This Week
Season 2 of the Wargaming.net League is up and running, with teams from around the Asia-Pacific region competing in a World of Tanks triple-round-robin tournament for a share of the USD$200,000 season prize pool. Last year’s APAC season closed with the undefeated EL Gaming taking home the top prize, and gaining access to the Challengers…
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Look at This Concept Art for Canceled Darth Maul Star Wars Game
More concept art for the canceled Darth Maul Star Wars game has emerged. Posted by developer Thomas Szakolczay on ArtStation (via Game Informer), the images show off some of the game’s characters, including Darth Maul, as well as a peek at a colorful downtown Coruscant. Go to ArtStation to see all the images. According to…
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GameStop Sells Through Initial Nintendo Switch Stock
Retailer GameStop today announced that it has sold through all of its Nintendo Switch stock, at least its first batch of systems. Preorders opened at GameStop on Friday, January 13, just hours after the big-time Switch presentation where the console’s price and release date were announced. “The fact that this initial allotment has been completely…
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Top 10 Movies at the US Box Office This Weekend
The top-grossing movies at the US box office for this weekend have been revealed. Fox’s Hidden Figures was the No. 1 movie in the US for a second straight week, winning the weekend with $20.5 million, according to EW, which supplied all the numbers. Rounding out the top five were La La Land ($14.5 million),…
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Awesome Games Done Quick Raises $2.2M, Smashing Last Year's Tally
Video game speedrunning event Awesome Games Done Quick wrapped up today, January 15, and it was a huge success. According to the event’s funding tracker, more than $2.2 million was raised for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, shattering the 2016 event’s $1.2 million in funding. There were some pretty awesome speedruns during the course of the…
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Nintendo Exec on NES Classic Shortages, Nintendo Switch Supply
Nintendo of American president Reggie Fils-Aime has responded to the NES Classic shortages and discussed the company’s plans for the Switch launch in March as it relates to supply. Discussing the NES Classic shortages (the system remains sold out basically everywhere following its November 2016 launch), Fils-Aime said it was simple matter of demand outpacing…
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Portlandia Renewed for Season 8, Its Last One
IFC’s silly sketch show Portlandia is coming to an end. According to EW, the network announced that the show, which stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, has been renewed for an an eighth season–this will be the show’s last. Portlandia is a wacky show, set in Portland, Oregon, that had many really good sketches (about…
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Last Chance to Get These Free Xbox One and Xbox 360 Games
It’s January 15, which means today is the last day that some Games With Gold titles will be free. On Xbox One, now is your last chance to grab the horror game Outlast for the low, low price of free. It is one of December’s freebies that carried over to January. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 users…
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Halo Games for Younger Audience Not Ruled Out, Microsoft Teases
Over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion about Halo games for a younger audience after a Halo Mega Bolks game leaked. Now, Halo developer 343 Industries has teased that, in the wake of the positive feedback to the awesome-looking Mega Bloks game, a Halo game of that type–or something along those…