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Originally Posted by wraggster

DiRT 3 has mirrored its Xbox 360 performance by reaching No.1 in this week's PlayStation 3 UK sales chart, nudging last week's headliner, InFamous 2, down to No.2

Rockstar's LA Noire finishes the week at No.3, ahead of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Virtua Tennis 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops at No.4, No.5 and No.6 respectively.

Bethesda and Splash Damage's Brink holds on to No.7, while this week's big mover, LittleBigPlanet 2, climbs eight positions up the chart from

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Codemasters' Dirt 3 dethrones FEAR 3 to take the top spot in this week's UK Xbox 360 sales chart.

Movie tie-in Transformers: Dark of the Moon holds on to No.2, ahead of UFC Personal Trainer, which climbs five spots to No.3, LA Noire, which moves down one spot to No.4 and Brink which shifts up one position to No.5.

Last week's biggest seller F.E.A.R 3 drops down to No.6 but manages to stay just ahead of Call of Duty: Black Ops, which moves an impressive ten spots back

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Ubisoft's happy to let EA and Activision fight it out for the FPS crown this Christmas, then bring a much slower tempo to the genre with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.

That's what Ubisoft UK brand manager Matt Benson told OXM, as well as admiring just how much pull the Call of Duty franchise has on gamers.

While distancing the Ubi shooter from Activision and EA's efforts, Benson did suggest that Ghost Recon had been too "dry" in the past and has learnt to be

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Activision's Call of Duty subscription service, CoD Elite, could cause a "small number" of loyal players to defect to EA's Battlefield 3.

That's according to the latest research note by Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, who expects Activision's shares to come under pressure when EA's game is launched - especially if it scores well with press.

"We expect EA's game to perform exceedingly well, eclipsing the 6.5 million units sold by the last iteration, and

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Originally Posted by wraggster

In a surprise admission, the boss of Microsoft Game Studios Phil Spencer has claimed that the platform holder has “lost its way” with the smash hit Halo franchise.

The statement comes as Bungie makes an emotional farewell to fans, having officially stepped away from the series that it helped make into one of the most popular console IPs in the world.

As Microsoft’s own studio 343 Industries takes the helm of the next Halo trilogy, Spencer says that the anonymous stars

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