Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes secures UK top spot for second week

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 2nd 2012 8:30AM

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes "comfortably" kept The Amazing Spider-Man away from the highest spot on Chart-Track's UK sales chart. There were three new entries in the top five last week: the web-slinger swung into second, and Spec Ops: The Line and London 2012: The Official Video Game (about... London??) landed in third and fourth place, respectively.

The launch of Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC helped propel sales of the game up 121 percent. The launch of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on PS Vita had a similar impact, shooting the game into tenth place on the charts and sales of the game up 532 percent - making it the top selling Vita game last week "by a large margin."

Top 10 UK Software Sales (All Formats); week ending June 30:
Lego Batman 2: DC Super HeroesThe Amazing Spider-ManSpec Ops: The LineLondon 2012: The Official Video GameFIFA 12Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future SoldierSkyrimMax Payne 3Battlefield 3Metal Gear Solid HD Collection

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Nintendo secures Wii U-related domain names

by JC Fletcher on Jun 14th 2011 6:40PM

Nintendo went on a domain shopping spree recently, grabbing a few domain names related to Wii games (like rhythmheavenwii.com and kirbywii.com) as well as a lot of domain names related to Wii U, referencing things like New Super Mario Bros. Mii and several unannounced games and items like "Wii Zapper U," "Wii Fit U," "Wii Party U," Wii U Balance Board, and even "Wii Music U," most with variations like "Wii U Music." All redirect to nintendo.com at the moment. Check the full list after the break, as reported by Nintendo World Report.

While we'd love to say that we had an early look at, like, the entire software and peripheral lineup for next year's console, this looks a lot more like Nintendo just registered everything it could think of, just in case. The duplicate registrations for name variants support this theory. Take that, thwarted domain squatters!
kirbywii.commariobrosu.comnewsupermariobrosmii.comnewsupermariobrosu.comrhythmheavenwii.comrhythmparadisewii.comsupermariobrosmii.comsupermariobrosu.comwii-u.comwii-u.netwiibalanceboardu.comwiifitu.comwiimusicu.comwiipartyu.comwiiplayu.comwiispeaku.comwiisportsu.comwiiubalanceboard.comwiiufit.comwiiumusic.comwiiuni.comwiiuniverse.netwiiuparty.comwiiuplay.comwiiuremote.comwiiuremote.netwiiuspeak.comwiiusports.comwiiuware.comwiiuwheel.comwiiuzapper.comwiiwareu.comwiiwheelu.com

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