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Justin Verlander Shows the Rookie the Ropes in new MLB 2K12 Trailer

Joseph Haygood — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:53:23 +0000

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 devestating mix of the curve and fastball that Verlander hurls.

MLB 2K12 is set for release on March 6th, 2012 from 2K Sports for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and Wii.

UK Gaming Chart (w/e January 28th)

Tanya Horne — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:04 +0000

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 are still a lot of fitness titles hanging around at the end of January: Zumba Fitness (seventh), Zumba Fitness 2 (tenth), Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 (seventeenth) and Kinect Sports: Season Two (eighteenth). If you’re one of those still keeping up with your new year’s health drive, we salute you.

So once again, no real changes, not so surprising for this time of year. Can FIFA 12 hold off its rivals for another week? We’ll soon find out.

As always brackets denote the previous week’s position.

1. (1) FIFA 12
2. (4) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
3. (2) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. (3) Just Dance 3
5. (5) Battlefield 3
6. (-) Resident Evil: Revelations
7. (6) Zumba Fitness
8. (7) Saints Row: The Third
9. (12) Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
10. (8) Zumba Fitness 2
11. (10) Rage
12. (9) Rayman Origins
13. (11) Mario Kart 7
14. (16) Football Manager 2012
15. (24) Sonic Generations
16. (13) Super Mario 3D Land
17. (29) Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012
18. (25) Kinect Sports: Season Two
19. (20) Cars 2
20. (18) WWE ’12

Charts provided by Gfk Chart-Track.

U.S. Gaming Charts: January 8th – January 14th

Tabitha Wang — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:52:45 +0000

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 way up from the #21 spot to #10, and Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy made a surprise resurgence, moving from #34 all the way up to #16.

Brackets denote the previous week’s position.

1. (1) Kinect Adventures! (X360)
2. (2) Just Dance 3 (Wii)
3. (3) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (X360)
4. (6) Zumba Fitness (Wii)
5. (4) Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
6. (5) Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
7. (9) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (X360)
8. (8) NBA 2K12 (X360)
9. (7) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3)
10. (21) Zumba Fitness 2 (Wii)
11. (16) UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System (X360)
12. (19) Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 (X360)
13. (11) NBA 2K12 (PS3)
14. (10) Kinect Sports: Season Two (X360)
15. (20) Just Dance 3 (X360)
16. (34) Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy (Wii)
17. (17) Dance Central 2 (X360)
18. (22) Just Dance (Wii)
19. (12) Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
20. (27) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS3)

Charts are provided by VG Chartz.

UK Gaming Chart (w/e January 21st)

Tanya Horne — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:02:28 +0000

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 are in sixth and eighth, and Rayman Origins has leaped into ninth thanks to some clever sales tactics. WWE ’12 has also seen a big jump, from thirty-one to eighteen, as has Cars 2 (from twenty-seven to twenty).

As always brackets denote the previous week’s position.

1. (1) FIFA 12
2. (3) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3. (2) Just Dance 3
4. (5) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
5. (4) Battlefield 3
6. (6) Zumba Fitness
7. (14) Saints Row: The Third
8. (7) Zumba Fitness 2
9. (17) Rayman Origins
10. (8) Rage
11. (11) Mario Kart 7
12. (9) Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
13. (15) Super Mario 3D Land
14. (10) Need for Speed: The Run
15. (20) Wii Fit Plus
16. (16) Football Manager 2012
17. (18) Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games
18. (31) WWE ’12
19. (22) Skylanders: Spryo’s Adventure
20. (27) Cars 2

Charts provided by Gfk Chart-Track.

UK Gaming Chart (w/e January 14th)

Tanya Horne — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:23:49 +0000

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 Zumba Fitness 2 which is only one place behind.

Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 enters at number twelve, Kinect Sports: Season Two is at number nineteen and Wii Fit Plus has crept back into the top twenty (just). Phew!

As always brackets denote the previous week’s position.

1. (1) FIFA 12
2. (4) Just Dance 3
3. (5) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. (2) Battlefield 3
5. (3) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
6. (6) Zumba Fitness
7. (12) Zumba Fintess 2
8. (9) Rage
9. (10) Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
10. (7) Need for Speed: The Run
11. (13) Mario Kart 7
12. (-) Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012
13. (11) Forza Motorsport 4
14. (8) Saints Row: The Third
15. (15) Super Mario 3D Land
16. (16) Fotball Manager 2012
17. (19) Rayman Origins
18. (14) Mario & Sonic London 2012 Olympic Games
19. (18) Kinect Sports: Season Two
20. (27) Wii Fit Plus

Charts provided by Gfk Chart-Track.

MLB 2K12 Announces New Perfect Game Tournament for $1 Million Grand Prize

Joseph Haygood — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:41:12 +0000

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 odds of winning the million dollar prize, there will be a Live tournament for eight people that pitch a perfect game. No longer will you have to videotape yourself performing the perfect game, instead playing in the newly created Perfect Game Challenge mode of MLB 2K12. At the end of a perfect game, you will be given a unique code that you will enter at the MLB 2K12 Perfect Challenge website.

From all the contestants that submit codes through the month of April, eight finalists will be selected, based on the strength of their Perfect Game win. Those eight will duke it out in a Live tournament with the winner being crowned with a cool million dollars in cash.

Check out last year’s winner, Brian Kingrey, and his story about winning the million dollar challenge.

UKIE confirms the UK’s bestselling games of 2011

Vikki Blake — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:15:54 +0000

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 spot in as many years, which is now about as unexpected as a new Mario game with “Kart” stapled on the end.

Not everything is completely predictable, however. Remember those crazy few months in the lead up to Christmas? Seems they had a huge impact on sales this year.

“Most of the All Formats top ten best-sellers of 2011 were released in Q4,” explains GfK Chart-Track’s Business Group Director Dorian Bloch, “which meant that – for the first time – over half of the entire year’s software revenue occurred in just the last quarter of the year.”

“2011 finished strongly for the traditional console gaming markets thanks to the arrival of 3DS to re-invigorate the hand-held gaming arena,” he added, “and also the notable UK phenomenon of Xbox 360, which sold more software both in units and revenue than any year since its launch back in 2005.”

A good year for Xbox then.

But enough from me – here are the finalists in full. Enjoy!

All Formats
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2. FIFA 12
3. Battlefield 3
4. Zumba Fitness
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
6. Just Dance 3
7. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
8. LA Noire
9. Saints Row: The Third
10.Batman: Arkham City

3DS chart
1. Super Mario 3D Land
2. Mario Kart 7
3. The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time 3D
4. Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever
5. Rayman 3D

DS chart
1. Professor Layton And The Spectre’s Call
2. Pokemon White Version
3. Pokemon Black Version
4. Art Academy
5. Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo

PC chart
1. Football Manager 2012
2. Football Manager 2011
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. The Sims 3
5. Battlefield 3

PS3 chart
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2. FIFA 12
3. Battlefield 3
4. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
5. Assassins Creed: Revelations

PSP chart
1. FIFA 12
2. FIFA 11
3. Motorstorm: Arctic Edge
4. Gran Turismo
5. Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines

Xbox 360 chart
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2. FIFA 12
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
4. Battlefield 3
5. Gears of War 3

Wii chart
1. Zumba Fitness
2. Just Dance 3
3. Just Dance 2
4. Mario Kart Wii
5. Wii Sports Resort

So: your thoughts? Surprised? Unsurprised?

Via: CVG.com

UK Gaming Chart (w/e January 7th)

Tanya Horne — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:11:15 +0000

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, Kinect Sports: Season Two AND EA Sports Active 2 in the top twenty. Zumba Fitness seriously has more staying power than any other game I can think of over the past twelve months. Just when you think its time in the top ten is up for good, it surprises you by catapulting up the chart by thirteen places into number six, leaving even its successor in its wake. Enjoy burning off those excess calories, guys!

As always brackets denote the previous week’s position.

1. (1) FIFA 12
2. (3) Battlefield 3
3. (2) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
4. (4) Just Dance 3
5. (8) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
6. (19) Zumba Fitness
7. (7) Need for Speed: The Run
8. (6) Saints Row: The Third
9. (12) Rage
10. (5) Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
11. (10) Forza Motorsport 4
12. (28) Zumba Fitness 2
13. (9) Mario Kart 7
14. (11) Mario & Sonic London 2010 Olympic Games
15. (14) Super Mario 3D Land
16. (21) Football Manager 2012
17. (15) Sonic Generations
18. (16) Kinect Sports: Season Two
19. (18) Rayman Origins
20. (37) EA Sports Active 2

Charts provided by Gfk Chart-Track.

MLB 2K12 Shows Off Its Cover Art

Joseph Haygood — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:46:57 +0000

With NFL Football nearing the end of its regular season, and Basketball finally getting underway after a strike, we are closing in on the start of the American pasttime and 2K Sports is celebrating by releaing the box art for its upcoming baseball title, MLB 2K12. The cover athlete this year just happens to be Cy Young winner Jason Verlander from the Detroit Tigers.

MLB 2K12 is set to arrive on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PSP, Wii and PC before baseball season in 2012 and looks to add a number for fixes for those that were critical of last year’s release. Check out your platform of choice below.

The New Atlus Title Has Been Announced and It Is…

Joseph Haygood — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:40:48 +0000

Gungnir! Okay, so that may not get you quaking in your boots, but for those tha enjoyed Knights in the Nightmare, this game is for you. Gungnir is a strategy tactics/RPG title that will focus on several heroes. Not much else is known on this title beyond that, but we do have a batch of screens from the Japanese version of the title as well as the opening cinematic, which is very sharp for a PSP title. Check out more on Gungnir below.