Category: Video games
The UK Top 10 video games chart: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare ends the year at the top
[nextpage title="Next"] Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare signs off the year in style, taking its fifth No.1 crown since launch. Grand Theft Auto V continues to deliver strong sales climbing to No.2 after four weeks in third place. FIFA 15 is relegated to No.3, which means that for the first time since 2009 a FIFA…
The Digest: Gmail blocked in China… and 5 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Google’s Gmail blocked in China | The Guardian "Google’s Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world’s biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the country’s 'great firewall' was to blame. Large numbers of Gmail web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, according to GreatFire.org, a…
The UK Top 10 video games chart: Call of Duty retakes the top spot for Christmas
[nextpage title="Next"] Advanced Warfare becomes the fifth Call of Duty game to claim the coveted Christmas No.1 position with a well-timed promotion on the PS4 version helping it leapfrog FIFA 15. Last year, FIFA 14 pulled off a similar trick, sneaking ahead of Call of Duty: Ghosts at the last minute to claim the festive…
The Digest: Apple ‘failing to protect workers’… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers' | BBC News "Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation. Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken. It found standards on workers' hours, ID…
Sony: Stop using the laws of supply and demand to sell your 20th anniversary PS4s
Fresh from, umm, asking journalists not to cover the Sony Pictures hack, it has now emerged that Sony don't want consumers selling their 20th anniversary edition PlayStations either. A couple of weeks ago Sony announced it was making some custom PS4s styled like the original PlayStation for the brand's 20th anniversary, and the company even…
The UK Top 10 video games chart: FIFA 15 stays at the top of the table
[nextpage title="Next"] FIFA 15 remains at No.1 in the run-up to Christmas and the Top Five remains the same, with Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare at No.2, Rockstar/Take 2’s Grand Theft Auto V at No.3, Ubisoft’s Far Cry 4 at No.4 and Warner’s Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham at No.5. Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2015…
The Digest: Net is ‘less free and more unequal’… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Berners-Lee troubled by 'growing inequality' on web | PC Mag "Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes access to the internet is a basic human right. The World Wide Web creator and founder of the Web Foundation, Berners-Lee suggested that, in an increasingly unequal world, the internet has the power to be a great equaliser. But…
The UK Top 10 video games chart: FIFA 15 is back at the top of its game
[nextpage title="Next"] FIFA 15 moves back into top spot for the first time in six weeks - which means last week’s No.1, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, is pushed down to No.2 while Grand Theft Auto V is a non-mover at No.3. Ubisoft’s Far Cry 4 also holds its position at No.4 in its third…
The Digest: Steam takes on Twitch… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Steam Broadcasting takes on Twitch with game streams | The BBC "Steam - the popular PC video gaming platform - is adding the ability to stream gameplay so that others can watch online. The move presents a challenge to Twitch, which is built around a similar service, and was acquired by Amazon for…
The UK Top 10 video games chart: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare shoots back to the top
[nextpage title="Next"] Black Friday shakes up the chart this week, shooting Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare back to the top from No.3, switching places with last week’s No.1, GTA V. As sales of the PS4 and Xbox One versions of GTA V drop off in their second week of release, it is the previous generation…
