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Sleeping Dogs beats 'New Super Mario Bros 2' to UK all-formats number one

Sleeping Dogs has made its debut at the top of the all-format weekly chart.

The open-world action game charts ahead of New Super Mario Bros. 2 in second, knocking London 2012: The Game down to third.

Retail promotions see both Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 climb to eight and ten respectively, the latter charting above Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Elsewhere, Sonic Generations props up the chart at 20, below Grand Theft Auto: Tales From Liberty City and Super Mario 3D Land.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations suffers this week's biggest drop, falling from eight to 17.

The top 20 in full:

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teedogg804303d ago

Loving this game right now.

Acquiescence4303d ago

Way to give Activision the middle finger. Maybe next time Bobby And Co. will stop and think before needlessly pulling the plug on the development of a game for no good reason. Jerks.

Stephen55434303d ago (Edited 4303d ago )

This game was originally a "True Crimes" game, and the name was only changed because of licensing issues (Activision owns True Crimes, but dropped this game. Square Enix decided to pick up the developers).

So I wouldn't really count this as a new IP, but still worth supporting

Lol_Lmao4303d ago (Edited 4303d ago )

EPIC FAIL!
This was a new IP called Black Lotus but Activision slapped the True Crime name on it for brand recognition.
Activision really dropped the ball on this one. Great for Square Enix and a big middle finger to Activision.

Stephen55434303d ago

Ah, I was unaware of that. I only knew about True Crimes: Hong Kong. They also in a recent interview only talked about the reasoning for the new change in name from True Crimes, so I didn't know about that.

Alos884303d ago

Great news! A shame Darksiders 2 isn't even listed though.

Knight_Crawler4303d ago

Played DS 2 and its more of the same from part one which is not bad but really disappointed that the developers gave us a DS 1.5 instead of DS2.

Soylent_Green4303d ago

Darksiders hasn't been released in Europe yet, won't be out until tomorrow or Friday I think. I was planning on getting it last week but when it wasn't in the shop picked up sleeping dogs instead. Loving the lack of guns so far.

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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's Scope Was Impacted by Xbox Series S Limitations

Wccf tech writes: "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's scope was impacted by the Xbox Series S hardware limitations, as developers could only make a game that was 25% bigger than its predecessor."

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-Foxtrot9h ago

This is the issue with things like this

Xbox Series X is apparently to MS the worlds most powerful console

However the Series S is obviously a limitation because it’s underpowered and developers have to go for parity.

So what’s the point of the world’s most powerful console if you are holding third party developers back? They aren’t going to push themselves if they have to think about the weakest console.

The issue wouldn’t be as bad if it was just Xbox but you are also affecting the PS version aswell

I think developers need to start just taking advantage of a console and if one of them can’t do X Y and Z then f*** them…why should the others suffer. What’s MS going to do? The bigger the franchise the least chance MS are going to tell them to f*** off. Baulders Gate 3 seemed to have stood their ground and suddenly their “strict” parity rule didn’t really matter. We suddenly got super optimisation efforts for the Series S that got things sorted.

anast5h ago

I agree, and the sad part is use normal folk saw it the second they announced their plans.

Abear211h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Agree 100% this is why I didn’t want the M$ Monopoly, now PS5 version will be held back too.

If PS5 Pro comes out and Series S is still a thing it’ll be interesting what differences and what devs choose to do. Really hoping Rockstar pushes the PS5 pro with GTA6 and we get the best version possible.

LucasRuinedChildhood10h ago

More info from the author of the article, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/ki...

Quote:
"1) I was told this info from the producer of the game Martin Klíma.
2) He specifically said the game will have only one mode.
3) And this mode is 4K 30 on PS5/XSX and 1440p 30 on XSS.
4) He said that the game is already running north of the 30 FPS cap so the performance should be stable on launch, much better than KCD1.
5) The limitation was XSS because of the 10GB memory. He said that's why they wanted to make the game 25% larger.
6) Speculation on my part: the output resolution is probably upscaled and the reason why there won't be a 60 FPS mode is because it'll most likely be very CPU heavy, like Dragon's Dogma 2 for example."

Doesn't seem like they're adding a 40fps mode on PS5/Series X for launch even if they can handle it.

Sgt_Slaughter5h ago

I'd much rather have 1440p/60fps or even 45fps. Having just one, even with the Series S in mind, is disappointing.

franwex4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Remember when xbots were adamant that the series s won’t hold back the gen?

Microsoft just needs to let go of the mandatory parity. Who cares if your grandma doesn’t understand that a game cannot be played on the S. It’s not like it she can buy you a physical game for it anyway. Before buying the game put up a notice that it only works on series X. If you’re buying for a friend-allow for a refund.

Bam. Everyone is happy. Most series s owners are for casuals that want Game Pass anyway and most likely don’t purchase most games.

If the developers want it to run on S, let them figure it out.

Jin_Sakai4h ago

“During the event, the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 producer also revealed that on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the game will run at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second“

Another “creative decision” right? 🤦‍♂️

IHateNate3h ago

Amateur hour. Very incapable developer.

Outside_ofthe_Box3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Since you're not an amateur and clearly know more than them, can you over there and help get the game running on the S without having to sacrifice their true vision. Us gamers would really appreciate you using your wisdom for good 🙏

IHateNate3h ago

Thousands of games run just fine on S.

But Kingdom Come is the game that can’t. Must be one hell of a game!

franwex1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Thousands of games run on PS4 and on Switch. If developers want them to run on those systems. Fine. Those two platforms still get new games. Sony isn’t making studios also make a ps4 pro version, or Nintendo a wiiu version. Microsoft technically is.

IHateNate44m ago(Edited 43m ago)

If games like Alan Wake 2, GTA6, COD, hellblade all run on S, no excuse for this 100x smaller and 100x worse looking game to be held back.

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Celebrate the Diablo Anniversary with March of the Goblins

Come celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Diablo IV and the 2-year anniversary of Diablo Immortal! There are heaps of rewards to mark these celebrations with a bounty of devilish goods across both games.

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anast11h ago

This game is about to get buried by Path 2.

LordoftheCritics10h ago

Still no global chat or group finder.

The emptiest MP game ever made.

OtterX9h ago

1 more month then I can celebrate 1 year since i stopped playing and uninstalled the game.

Walalon8h ago

We are on the same team brother!

Rynxie5h ago

I uninstalled d4 after they kept screwing over the sorc build and I beat the game. I also uninstalled immortal after reading the end. I actually went back to d2r here and there.

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Tales of the Shire Stands at a Fork in the Road Regarding Magic

Tales of the Shire has many hurdles to jump to live up to the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, and magical elements might be its most pertinent one.

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