The 3DS remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has had to settle for second place in the UK all formats chart, as keep fit title Zumba Fitness returns to the number one spot once again.

Zumba Fitness saw a 43 per cent surge in sales over the course of the week, with a 51 per cent increase in Wii sales. Nintendo's home console accounted for 89 per cent of sales of the title this week.

The title's continuing success prevented Nintendo's critically acclaimed 3DS Zelda title from topping the charts, although according to Chart Track it was bought by 20 per cent of all 3DS owners. Sales are reported to be "not that far away from the top-selling title so far (Pilotwings Resort)".

Following an almost universal critical panning Duke Nukem Forever saw sales drop by 58 per cent in its second week on the charts, although it only fell as far as number three.

The second highest new entry of the week, after Zelda, was Square Enix's Western-made dungeon crawler Dungeon Siege III at number nine. The previously PC-exclusive franchise saw 52 per cent of its sales on the Xbox 360, 25 per cent on the PlayStation 3, and 19 per cent on the PC.

Outside the top 10 EA's Alice: Madness Returns debuted at number 13, with 59 per cent of sales on the Xbox 360, 33 per cent on the PlayStation 3 and 8 per cent on the PC.

Ubisoft's Kinect-enhanced title Child Of Eden did not break into the all formats top 20, but did appear in the Xbox 360 chart at number nine.

This Week Last Week Title
1 3 Zumba Fitness
2 New Entry The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
3 1 Duke Nukem Forever
4 2 L.A. Noire
5 7 Brink
6 5 Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
7 6 DiRT 3
8 4 inFamous 2
9 New Entry Dungeon Siege III
10 11 FIFA 11
11 9 Call of Duty: Black Ops
12 8 Red Faction: Armageddon
13 New Entry Alice: Madness Returns
14 12 Wii Sports Resort
15 13 Lego Star Wars III
16 Re-entry Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters
17 10 Portal 2
18 Re-entry Homefront
19 19 Crysis 2
20 18 Mario Kart Wii

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-uk-number-one ...

Sega's latest entry in the Yakuza franchise has proved a significant hit in Japan, with the PlayStation 3 game selling 298,717 units in its debut week.

Although it retains many of the same characters as the previous titles, the new game is a more action-orientated spin-off featuring a zombie attack on Tokyo. Despite the strong sales, the debut is still less than that of the more serious-minded Yakuza 3 (372,000 units) and Yakuza 4 (384,000 units).

Sales in the rest of the chart were as slow as previous weeks, with Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D on 3DS holding onto second place but selling only 15,551 units.

The second-highest new entry of the week was an anime-themed pachinko game at number six with just 6,808 first week sales.

Although its chart position is higher than that achieved in the UK individual format charts Red Faction: Armageddon at number nine sold only 5,436 units on PlayStation 3.

In terms of hardware sales there was little change from the previous week, with the gap between the PSP and 3DS remaining much smaller than previous months. Sony's portable was still the biggest-seller though at 26,681 units to 24,649.

The success of Yakuza did little to affect PlayStation 3 sales, with only a minor increase to 17,104.

Last Week This Week Title Format
New Entry 1 Yakuza Of The End PS3
1 2 Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D 3DS
3 3 Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS DS
4 4 Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional DS
2 5 One Piece Unlimited Cruise SP 3DS
New Entry 6 Gekiatsu!! Pachi Game Tamashi Vol. 1: CR Evangelion - Shinjitsu no Tsubasa PSP
13 7 Wii Party Wii
7 8 Akiba's Trip PSP
New Entry 9 Red Faction: Armageddon PS3
9 10 Patapon 3 PSP
Platform This Week Last Week
PSP 26,681 30,155
3DS 24,649 27,357
PlayStation 3 17,104 16,510
Wii 6,357 6,315
Nintendo DSi XL 5,283 5,452
Nintendo DSi 5,232 5,187
Xbox 360 2,370 2,499
PlayStation 2 1,291 1,228
Nintendo DS Lite 146 138
PSPgo 69 62

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...apanese-charts ...

Sega's mobster/zombie mash-up Yakuza: Of The End takes the top spot in this week's Japanese sales chart, and by some margin.

According to the latest Media Create numbers, as reported by Andriasang, the PlayStation 3 exclusive sold 298,717. That's leagues ahead of runner-up Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, which managed 15,551 in its second week on shelves.

Elsewhere in the chart, Red Faction: Armageddon managed to creep in at number nine, selling 5436 copies.

Here's the full top 10:

Yakuza Of The End (Sega, PS3): 298,717 NEW!
Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom, 3DS): 15,551 (Life-to-date: 74,343)
Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS (Pokemon, DS): 11,421 (130,812)
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (Square Enix, DS): 10,526 (530,022)
One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special (Namco Bandai, 3DS): 8,384 (105,625)
Gekiatsu!! Pachige Tamashii Portable Vol.1 Evangelion Shinjitsu no Tsubasa (Fields, PSP): 6,808 NEW!
Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 6,243 (1,911,195)
Akiba's Trip (Acquire, PSP): 5,523 (89,477)
Red Faction Armageddon (Spike, PS3): 5,436 NEW!
Patapon 3 (SCEJ, PSP): 5,306 (116,798)
Yet again, the PSP took the hardware crown, although sales were down from 30,155 last week to 26,681.

3DS came in second, though sales slipped from 27,357 to 24,649 following a couple of weeks of modest growth.

Nintendo will be hoping the release of Ocarina of Time 3D this week will push the struggling system back to the top of the pile.

The full hardware chart played out as follows:

PSP: 26,681 (Last week: 30,155)
3DS: 24,649 (27,357)
PS3: 17,104 (16,510)
Wii: 6,357 (6,315)
DSi XL: 5,283 (5,452)
DSi: 5,232 (5,187)
Xbox 360: 2,370 (2,499)
PS2: 1,291 (1,228)
DS Lite: 146 (138)
PSP go: 69 (62)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...s-japan-charts ...

Amazon offers buy one, get one half-off on select games

f last week's video game industry festivities filled you with an unquenchable thirst to buy more video games, you should turn your unhealthy impulses towards Amazon. For a limited time, the retailer's offering buy one, get one-half off on a beefy list of 186 titles across various platforms.

Notable titles eligible for the offer include:
Killzone 3: Helghast Edition -- $59.99
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood -- $39.99
Heavy Rain -- $27.99
Fallout New Vegas -- $59.99
Medal of Honor -- $19.97
Demon's Souls -- $19.73
Metal Gear Solid 4 -- $19.16

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...96491&plpage=4 ...

News via http://www.emucr.com/2011/06/pcsx2-svn-r4738.html

PCSX2 SVN r4738 is released. PCSX2 is an open source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. With the most recent versions, many PS2 games are playable (although speed limitations have made play-to-completion tests for many games impractical), and several games are claimed to have full functionality.

PCSX2 SVN Changelog:
r4736
i18n: round 2, fix po and upload new version of pt_BR/pl_PL/es_ES/sv_SE
r4737
i18n: remove the loading of ter&dev mo. Upload latest mo align on lastest po (several new languages too)
r4738
codeblock: add gtk include file and remove some define
=> wx directly include one gtk include file directly and it seem to use also deprecated stuff ...

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US boxed video game sales in May 2011 totalled $743.1 million, a 14 per cent decline on the same period in 2010 and the lowest since October 2006.

That's according to data released by the NPD Group, which reported that software sales were down 19 per cent to $375.8 million and hardware down 5 per cent to $228.9 million. Accessories was also down 6 per cent to $114 million.

"Keeping in mind that these sales figures represent just the new physical portion of the market for video game hardware, software, and accessories and not the growing portion of the industry that is comprised of digital format content distribution, May 2011 was the lowest month of sales for the industry since October 2006," said the company. "A light slate of new releases is at the heart of this month's performance."

Sales of the PlayStation 3, PSP and Xbox 360 were all up over May 2010, with 360 seeing the highest increase.

NPD noted that "sales of the 3DS were light, but with next Sunday's release of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, we will begin to see a slate of strong content come to market for the 3DS, which should help to significantly boost sales of hardware during the remainder of 2011."

"Combined sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360 (HD hardware) are up 28 per cent for the month and 21 per cent year to date. Although the declines in console hardware sales in 2011 are attributable to the Wii, the platform remains the best-selling of this generation at nearly 36 million installed in the US."

NPD suggested that at the current rate of growth and decline, the Wii will still maintain the lead in the console space, although the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will have closed the gap. "Of course, new details on hardware introduction could certainly change the picture," added the company.

During May there were 42 new software SKUs released compared to 58 last year and 72 for May 2009.

"Keep in mind that purchases of content are increasingly occurring in digital format, and May saw a notable digital release in the second map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops which was titled Escalation. Undoubtedly, this shifted some dollars that might have been spent on new physical content at retail," noted NPD.

The biggest release of the month was Team Bondi's L.A. Noire, followed by Brink, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat.

The top ten best sellers for May follow:

01 L.A. Noire (360, PS3)
02 Brink (360, PS3, PC)
03 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (Wii, 360, DS, 3DS, PS3, PSP, PC)
04 Portal 2 (360, PS3, PC)
05 Mortal Kombat (PS3, 360)
06 Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, DS, PC)
07 Zumba Fitness: Join the Party (Wii, 360, PS3)
08 NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, PC)
09 Just Dance 2 (Wii)
10 LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Wii, DS, 360, PS3, 3DS, PSP, PC)

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...e-october-2006 ...

Duke Nukem Forever, the FPS which began development fifteen years ago and seemed to have stalled irrevocably several times during development, has debuted at number one in the UK charts despite a Metacritic rating of just 50 per cent on Xbox 360 - its leading platform by sales.

The game sold 56 per cent of its copies for the 360, six per cent of which were the £64.99 special edition version. It pushes L.A. Noire, also from publisher Take-Two down into second place for the first time since its release. Sales of L.A. Noire dropped by 54 per cent from last week.

505 Games' multi-platform workout game, Zumba Fitness, climbs a place to third, putting PS3 exclusive Infamous 2 in fourth place on its debut week. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean drops to fifth place from second, with DiRT 3 slipping to sixth from third.

THQ's Red Faction Armageddon debuts at eighth, with seventy per cent of sales on Microsoft's console.

This Week Last Week Title
1 New Entry Duke Nukem Forever
2 1 L.A. Noire
3 4 Zumba Fitness
4 New Entry Infamous 2
5 2 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean
6 3 DiRT 3
7 5 Brink
8 New Entry Red Faction Armageddon
9 7 Call of Duty: Black Ops
10 9 Portal 2
11 8 FIFA 11
12 6 Wii Sports Resort
13 13 Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
14 12 Art Academy
15 10 The Sims 3: Generations
16 14 Hunted: The Demon's Forge
17 15 Just Dance 2
18 11 Mario Kart
19 17 Crysis 2
20 18 Wii Fit 2
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...from-l-a-noire ...

GSdx SVN r4723 is released. GSdx is a GPU plugin for PCSX2.

GSdx SVN Changelog：
r4723
GSdx: No more blinking characters/objects when using EE/VU cycle speedhacks in God of War 2.

http://www.emucr.com/2011/06/gsdx-svn-r4723.html ...

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PCSX2 SVN r4727 is released. PCSX2 is an open source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. With the most recent versions, many PS2 games are playable (although speed limitations have made play-to-completion tests for many games impractical), and several games are claimed to have full functionality.

PCSX2 SVN Changelog:
r4726
GSdx: No more blinking characters/objects when using EE/VU cycle speedhacks in God of War I (also maybe better fix for GoW2)
Added some NTSC-J CRCs found by users of 2ch.net. Thanx
r4727
SPU2-X: partial and probably incorrect (but good enough for the BIOS) support for reading back key on and key off registers, just returning the last written value.

We need testing to determine how these actually behave and want to do some game testing to find other partially implemented registers before that.


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