31 Jan, 2012

With baseball season fast approaching, 2K Sports has released a new trailer for their upcoming baseball title, MLB 2K12. This new trailer puts a focus on the My Player mode, with a rookie working his way to the majors to face 2011 Cy Young winner, Justin Verlander. The moral of the story – Sit Down Rook, as our rookie wiffs out with three swings to the...

30 Jan, 2012

FIFA 12 successfully held off against a surge in Modern Warfare 3 sales to remain at number one last week, with Skyrim dropping into third place and Just Dance 3 into fourth. Battlefield 3 remains in fifth place and – finally – we have some new blood in the chart in the form of 3DS title Resident Evil: Revelations which has entered in sixth. There...

24 Jan, 2012

It was a game of musical chairs in the Top 10, but it was a deathmatch for the Top 20. While Mario Kart and Mario 3D Land fought with the Dragonborn, Kinect Sports, Just Dance 3, and Dance Central battled it out with SWTOR and UFC Personal Trainer. Let’s just say that the Force wasn’t too strong with that particular one. Zumba Fitness 2 climbed its...

23 Jan, 2012

EA’s FIFA 12 is celebrating its fifth week at the top of the chart and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. Skyrim and Just Dance 3 have switched places and are now in places two and three respectively; Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 have done likewise and finish at four and five. Highly popular fitness games Zumba Fitness and Zumba Fitness 2...

16 Jan, 2012

I hope most people are having more luck with their New Year fitness pledges than I am – especially considering the amount of money being spent on sport and fitness games at the moment. Although FIFA 12 is still at number one this week, Just Dance 3 has managed to position itself in second place. Then we have Zumba Fitness which remains at number six and...

12 Jan, 2012

The last few years, 2K Sports have held a contest for someone to win a million dollars by being the first person to submit a video of a perfect game. You may have heard about last year’s winner Brian Kingrey, via his recent Google Stories commercial about winning the MLB 2K11 Perfect Game contest. This year, to spice things up, and to give people better...

11 Jan, 2012

Every year, the UKIE collate and publish the biggest selling titles of the previous twelve months, and every year, we pour over the results as though they might somehow be surprising. Which they never are. Ever. Case in point: taking the all-format top spot this year is Activision’s Modern Warfare 3. This is the Call of Duty franchise’s third top...

9 Jan, 2012

FIFA 12 is still sitting pretty at the top of a fairly uninspiring chart this week with same old faces Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, Just Dance 3 and Skyrim make up the rest of the top five. I’m guessing I’m not the only one to overdo it over the festive period as Just Dance 3 is joined by its equally active friends Zumba Fitness, Zumba Fitness 2,...