LA Noire is the number one in the Nordic chart - which collates sales data from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland - for a third consecutive week.
In second spot is a re-entry, The Sims 3: Generations, which knocks Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean down into third place.
There's just one new entry in this week's top 20 - Bethesda's Hunted: The Demon's Forge, which makes its debut in a lowly 14th place.
It stands to reason that as games approach realtime parity with cartoons, live action drama and Hollywood special effects, the job of the CG video maker might diminish. Why sacrifice a consistent look and a degree of creative control when you can keep it all 'in-engine'? But of course it's not that simple. So long as there are genres that can't emulate cinematic storytelling - the RTS, rhythm action game or gawky deathmatch shooter, for instance - the need for pre-rendered video remains.
Do-it-yourself conspiracy theory, step 1: write the word ‘Wargar’ – the name of the orc-like race at the centre of Hunted: The Demon’s Forge – down on a sheet of paper. We’ll wait here while you find a pen. Step 2: splice the word in half at the syllable break. Finished? Step 3: swap the order of these two words. If you’ve followed instructions properly, you should have arrived at the nonsensical phrase ‘gar War.’ Step 4: sandwich the preposition ‘of’ between the two words to get ‘gar of War’.
Ludlum Dare’s 20th competition – the theme was “It’s Dangerous to go Alone – Take This!” - has thrown out some fascinating games. Last week, I took a look at Drum Hammer Dig, Steven Burgess’ sweaty-palmed trip into monster-laden candy mines.
Tecmo Koei's 3DS title Dead Or Alive Dimensions has been effectively banned from sale in Australia after having its age rating revoked.
Tecmo Koei's 3DS title Dead Or Alive Dimensions has been effectively banned from sale in Australia after having its age rating revoked.
Satoru Iwata is as confused as the rest of us at the investor reaction to the Wii U announcement which has seen Nintendo's stock fall by some ten per cent in two days.
Speaking to Reuters, Iwata expressed surprise at Nintendo's falling share price, but pointed out that the Wii announcement in 2006 was met with a similarly lukewarm response - and that he was confident that would change once people got their hands on the innovative new controller.
Speaking to us at E3, THQ's executive vice president of kids, family, casual games & global online services Martin Good has dispelled any notion that Nintendo's recently unveiled Wii U controller treads on the toes of his company's uDraw peripheral.
Capcom's Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is the new number one in the Media Create Japanese chart, dominating an otherwise slow week of sales with 58,792 units sold.
The rest of the games on the chart came nowhere near to that volume of sales: in second place is another 3DS title, Namco Bandai's One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special, which sold just 16,753 units.
There's just one other new entry this week, and it's an Xbox 360 game: 5pb's Phantom Breaker, which enters the chart at number six with just shy of 10,000 sales.