BLOODFORGE and Trials Evolution took the top two spots in last week’s Xbox Live Arcade Top 10.
Both games are part of MICROSOFT’s new Xbox Live promotion, ‘Arcade Next’. The activity sees a new Arcade game come out every Wednesday during a four week period. It is similar to the firm’s ‘House Party’ and ‘Summer of Arcade’ deals.
1 THE WALKING DEAD
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Last week
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RE NEW Title TORCHLIGHT II (P)
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 DEAD SPACE 2
56 SNIPER ELITE V2 (P) 6
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Week ending April 29th RISEN 2: DARK WATERS
73 THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM 82 SERIOUS SAM 3: BFE 9
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Runic Games Activision EA
Rebellion
Deep Silver Bethesda
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE THE WITCHER 2: ASSASSIN’S OF KINGS (ENHANCED EDITION)
TOP CONSOLE DOWNLOADS XBLA (GLOBAL)
PSN (UK)
Devolver Digital THQ
CD Projekt
Based on these performances, Microsoft can expect this week’s Fable Heroesto shoot straight to the top. Arcade Next ends on May 9th with the anticipated released of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.
TELLTALE GAMES – fresh from bringing back classic IP such as Jurassic Parkand Back to the Future – has topped the Steam charts with its more contemporary horror The Walking Dead.
The episodic game is based on the comic book rather than the hit TV series, and debuted in the charts last week at No.7.
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MOTORSTORM RC Developer: Evolution Games Publisher: Sony
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2 PURE CHESS 3 TRINE 2
4 FIFA FOOTBALL 5 IDIOT SQUAD 6 FIFA STREET 7 ESCAPE PLAN 8 A-MEN
9 WHEELS OF DESTRUCTION 10 GREG HASTINGS PAINTBALL 2
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Ripstone Atlus EA
Majesco EA
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Bloober Team Gelid Games Hydravision
This week
1 BLOODFORGE Title 2 TRIALS EVOLUTION
3 GOTHAM CITY IMPOSTERS 4 DEEP BLACK EP. 1
5 NBA JAM: ON FIRE EDITION 6 ROCK BAND BLITZ 7 THE WALKING DEAD 8 FEZ
9 TOY SOLDIERS: COLD WAR 10 WORLD GONE SOUR
Correct as of April 27th. Xbox charts are worldwide. PSN chart are for UK includes PS3, PSP and PS Vita titles www.mcvuk.com
Developer: Climax Publisher: Microsoft Publisher
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Warner Bros 505 Games EA
Harmonix
TellTale Games Polytron
Signal Studios Capcom
Meanwhile, if you were under any illusion on how popular 505 GAMES’ Sniper Elite is to PC gamers, the game is still in the Top Ten this week, and it’s not even out yet. The highest charting pre-order of the week is RUNIC GAMES’ Torchlight II.
Over to the mobile and tablet market, and OMGPOP’s Draw Something remains the top grossing app. However, it has been been knocked down a place in the iOS free charts by generic sounding Logos Quiz Game.
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But its time at the top only lasted a week, with last Wednesday’s Bloodforgereplacing it. The game hasn’t reviewed particularly well, but consumers were clearly still willing to give it a crack.
Trials Evolution, the sequel to the 2009 cult hit Trials HD, was the first title to reach the service on April 18th and set a record for the highest grossing day-one sales in Xbox Live Arcade history. The game is created by UBISOFT-owned studio REDLYNX.