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Ubisoft's latest led sales charts for its first three weeks on the market.

Much to the chagrin of all dead mouse alarm "go woke, go broke" losers everywhere, Assassin's Creed Shadows is already 2025's second-best selling title. Video game industry analyst and executive director at Circana (NPD), Mat Piscatella, states that Assassin's Creed Shadows "has been the best-selling video game in the US for each of its first (three) weeks in market."

The sales...

Mortal Kombat takes the second spot.

New figures from Circana (formerly NPD) put Starfield as the top selling title for September 2023. Todd Howard's latest masterpiece, Starfield, beat out Mortal Kombat 1 and EA Sports FC 24 for the best selling title over the entire month. These sales figures are only for the United States. Globally, the picture might be quite different, but we just don't have the data to know for sure.

What makes Starfield's position at the top a...

And the hits just keep on coming.

Over the weekend, information was shared suggesting that The Callisto Protocol failed to meet sales expectations by a considerable margin. Today we have further information, this time from the NPD Group, that sheds some additional light on just how poorly this new sci-fi horror/shooter performed.

The NPD Group shared their sales information for December 2022 along with their full year 2022 details. The full year isn't all that exciting,...

The free-to-play brawler surpassed all challengers.

MultiVersus is the newly released platform fighter/brawler from WB Games and Player First Games. Despite the game being completely free-to-play for everyone, it ended up being the best-selling game of July 2022. According to the latest sales report by the NPD, the various Founder's Packs for MultiVersus propelled it to being the highest-grossing game for the past month.

To those keeping up with news on MultiVersus, this...

The best reviewed game in years is a huge seller. Surprised?

Elden Ring is the best-selling game in the United States thus far in 2022. The latest data from the NPD say that FromSoftware's latest release is the second-best launch of the past 12 months, coming up just short of topping Call of Duty: Vanguard.

This means that Elden Ring had a better launch month than some of the other recent megahits like Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Horizon Forbidden...

Well, for one month at least.

The Nintendo Switch has been the top-selling console in the United States for 33 months straight according to data gathered by the NPD Group. That all came to an end in September 2021 when the NPD Group showed that the PlayStation 5 was the top-selling console for the month. The PlayStation 5 sold the most consoles and made the most money compared to the competition.

The Nintendo Switch has been the best selling console every month since November...

Nielsen, the company that already tracks what shows you're watching, wants to broaden its horizons a bit. Today, they finalized the acquisition of SuperData Research in order to track digital game sales and eSports. This acquisition will bolster their Nielsen Games and Nielsen Esports divisions. Nielsen is often very useful for various production companies to see what consumers are watching or purchasing. It helps them to see and understand various market trends. That kind of stuff is...

Review bombing is when a bunch of Steam users get together in an effort to drastically raise or drastically lower the user scores for a game. It's usually the case that a developer or publisher has done something that people don't agree with so they "get back" at them by submitting a bunch of negative reviews. Those mass spammed negative reviews are then upvoted in a mass circle jerk while any positive reviews are mass downvoted. This is all done in an effort to... do... something? I guess their...

Review bombing is when a bunch of Steam users get together in an effort to drastically raise or drastically lower the user scores for a game. It's...

For the first time since October 2015, the Xbox One was the best selling console in the United States. In case there is any question, the other months were occupied with the PlayStation 4 as the top seller in the US. Microsoft issued a brief statement ahead of next week's NPD sales figures. They said that they are "honored that Xbox One was the best-selling console in the U.S." They go on to say that the hours that consumers spent using all Xbox products was up "18 percent" over the same per...

For the first time since October 2015, the Xbox One was the best selling console in the United States. In case there is any question, the other...

The software figures for the May 2016 NPD have been made public. Curiously, information about hardware sales is very difficult to come by at the moment. Though it was stated that overall hardware sales are down 10% compared to May 2015.
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The software figures for the May 2016 NPD have been made public. Curiously, information about hardware sales is very difficult to come by at the...

The NPD figures for February 2016 are now live for public consumption and debate. Once again, the PlayStation 4 was the top selling hardware in North America. Shockingly, Far Cry Primal was the best selling software for February in the region.
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