Month: January 2019

The UK’s best-selling physical video games of 2018 have been revealed, with the usual suspects leading the charts. FIFA 19 came out on top, selling just under 1.9m units.

Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 was the second-biggest seller, shifting 1.75m copies, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 found its way into 1.2m UK homes, placing it at No.3. Sales monitor GfK Chart-Track says the PS4 exclusive Spider-Man–which finished at No.4 in the overall chart–sold more copies than any other exclusive game in 2018. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (No.5), God of War (No.8), and Forza Horizon 4 (No.9) were the other exclusive games to sell well.

Overall, video games now generate more revenue than any other entertainment medium in the UK. The games market has more than doubled in value since 2007, with a large portion of that growth coming from digital sources such as DLC and microtransactions. Digital sales make up over 80% of the UK games market.

“The games industry has been incredibly effective in taking advantage of the potential of digital technology to offer new and compelling forms of entertainment, said CEO of the Entertainment Retailers Association, Kim Bayley. “Despite being the youngest of our three sectors, it is now by far the biggest.”

Take a look at the top 20 biggest-selling boxed games of 2018 below. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

Position	Title	Company	Physical Unit Sales
1	FIFA 19	Electronic Arts	1,889,401
2	Red Dead Redemption 2	Take 2	1,757,212
3	Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4	Activision Blizzard	1,172,855
4	Marvel’s Spider-Man	Sony Computer Ent.	676,621
5	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	Nintendo	458,675
6	Far Cry 5	Ubisoft	434,133
7	Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy	Activision Blizzard	430,551
8	God Of War	Sony Computer Ent.	399,395
9	Forza Horizon 4	Microsoft	392,960
10	FIFA 18	Electronic Arts	351,788
11	Grand Theft Auto V	Take 2	339,805
12	Spyro Reignited Trilogy	Activision Blizzard	333,725
13	Battlefield V	Electronic Arts	313,100
14	Assassin’s Creed Odyssey	Ubisoft	305,937
15	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Nintendo	284,155
16	Super Mario Odyssey	Nintendo	240,710
17	Call Of Duty: WWII	Activision Blizzard	230,576
18	Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!	Nintendo	227,767
19	Shadow Of The Tomb Raider	Square Enix / Microsoft	226,125
20	Fallout 76	Bethesda Softworks	218,534

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The topic of dark matter and dark energy has been unraveling for years, as 95% of the universe is made up of the unknown, invisible material that astrophysicists are not able to fully understand.

In a new study from astrophysicist, Jamie Farnes, from Oxford’s e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford and published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, there may be a modification to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, bringing both dark matter and dark energy into one fluid, negative mass.

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Every year is a great year for PC gaming, but 2019’s list is already an impressive one. With more and more games making their way to PC, here’s a look at the biggest upcoming games we know are almost certainly coming in 2019:

Anthem

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