Top 20 UK video game sales are 38% physical

Anne Hathaway has called director Christopher Nolan "an angel" for casting her in 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar when her reputation was suffering due to online toxicity – and, in doing so, keeping her career momentum going. 

The career of Yoshitaka Amano, the Japanese artist who is well-known for his art in the franchise, spans over 50 years, long before his work on Square Enix’s (formerly Square) popular gaming series. Amano’s work started off in the anime industry and has since reached far beyond, extending to games, graphic novels, comic books, and even music. Amano is wildly popular as an artist, having even illustrated the cover of .

A demo for Sand Land is out now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam, publisher Bandai Namco has announced.

Helldivers 2 was February’s best-selling game in Europe following an impressive launch.

Despite the game's release over a year ago, the community is still unearthing all kinds of secrets in the town of Hogsmeade. When they're busy learning spells and brewing potions in the myriad classes available, students who attend the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry can venture into one of the nearby hamlets to spend some of their hard-earned money on new items or simply poke about the town to see what can be found. As it turns out, magic is hidden everywhere if you know where to look.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has been considered among the best games of its kind for years, and demand for a remake of the RPG has been high for quite long as well. It’s no surprise, then, that ahead of its Switch remake’s looming launch, the game is already attracting quite a bit of people, as evidenced by how it’s performing on Amazon’s sales charts.

The Strong National Museum of Play has announced the 12 games nominated in 2024 for the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Asteroids, Elite, Guitar Hero, Metroid, Myst, Neopets, Resident Evil, Tokimeki Memorial, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Ultima, and You Don’t Know Jack.

Microsoft announced earlier in the year that Sea of Thieves would be one of several first-party Xbox titles getting multiplatform releases in the next couple of months. Shortly after pre-orders for Rare’s multiplayer pirate title went live, it’s proving quite popular with the PlayStation audience, with the game climbing high on PSN’s pre-order charts.

Sea of Thieves is currently the top of the pre-order charts on numerous PlayStation 5 digital storefronts.

Last week was another busy one with more major new releases hitting store shelves, a couple of which have found their way into the latest weekly charts for physical software sales in the UK. As shared by GamesIndustry’s Christopher Dring on Twitter, WWE 2K24 had a strong debut, taking the top spot in its first week on sale, with physical launch sales in the UK being 26 percent higher than what its predecessor managed in the region upon its release last year.

Helldivers 2 came out of nowhere and took the world by storm, and that continues to be reflected in sales. It was the UK’s best-selling game in February, and it’s been seeing consistent growth in sales in the US as well. On top of that, the game also managed to top the PlayStation Plus charts for top downloads for the month of February. In both North America and Europe, Arrowhead Game Studios’ co-op third-person shooter was No. 1.

Former EA and Microsoft exec, Peter Moore, says there are «serious questions» to be asked about video game hardware and whether or not there's a future for the traditional home console system.