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Have you already forgotten what games you can expect to hit retail and virtual store shelves over the course of this week? Then your memory is just as bad as ours, so it’s a good thing we keep vast lists of these sorts of important details.
Now if only we could find our latest list of worldwide game releases for this week… ah, here it is!
Is February the biggest videogame release month of 2012? It’s surely going to be a contender to that claim, with roughly 70 games due for launch over the next 28 days. This number is boosted by the launch of the PS Vita this month, while no less than six EA games contribute to the line-up.
Can you handle February’s release schedule? Don’t worry, we’ll get through it, together:
It’s the very first weekly game release round-up of 2012 here on El33tonline, so let’s make it a special occasion with lots of awesome new games, shall we?!
… dang.
So, there aren’t that many new games releasing this week around the world, but the quality is exceptionally high with the sequel to a long-awaited RPG sequel, the adventures of an immortal demon slayer, and an eternally told tale of souls and swords all making their way to retail over the next few days. Plus more!
Let’s look over the list of quality titles releasing this week, like it was the first time:
Call of Duty has in years gone by appeared at the top of the UK’s end-of-year entertainment property sales rankings, both in terms of units sold and overall revenue, but it looks as though 2011 was a little different.
Singer Adele has managed to outdo the world’s most dominant videogame with her latest album, ‘21,’ and in terms of unit sales at least, has outsold Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by a margin of over one million copies.
Taking into account the price of a music album versus a copy of a game, Modern Warfare 3 is still safely the highest earner of last year in 2011, but that doesn’t make Adele’s feat any less notable.
UK sales tracking firm UKIE has revealed the top-selling games of 2011 in the UK, and unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is slap-bang at the top of the all formats sales listing, followed by FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3.
Familiar ‘faces’ in the fitness and dance genres are included in the top ten, as well as open-world offerings in the fantasy, comic book, sci-fi and contemporary categories.
Lists of top-selling games across individual platforms have also been released - find out what were the hottest games of 2011 in the UK below:
Late last year, Eat Sleep Play’s David Jaffe wrote a heartfelt post post on the official PlayStation blogs announcing the unfortunate delay of the studio’s Twisted Metal.
The game was originally meant to release in October 2011, but the team felt it was necessary to put in an extra few months of work to create the game fans of the series truly deserved.
It’s time to chart out this year’s gaming calendar to make sure we’re ready for the gaming goodness to come, but let’s start at the very beginning and take a look at some of the top releases of January 2012, across all platforms.
Not much to see here…
We’re not going to lie: There isn’t whole ton of new games or even downloadable content releasing this week, but despite currently being engaged in its death throes, 2011 still has a few morsels to offer up to gamers:
Konami has formally announced that the publisher’s unique-looking action shooter, NeverDead, will be available early next year for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, while a massive batch of new screenshots were released to accompany the reveal.
If you didn’t get that joke in the header, rather don’t bother trying to figure it out and instead focus on discovering who won codes for the PlayStation 3 puzzle platform game, Max & the Magic Marker: Gold Edition.
For a chance to win one of the codes, we recently asked you: “If you had Max’s magic marker, what object would you draw into the real world and why?”
There were a number of amusing answers, but here are the readers who won the codes:
By sea, land, and air… we shall race!
The absolute highlight of this week’s worldwide videogame release list is the launch of Mario Kart 7 for 3DS, Nintendo’s latest awesome kart racing game featuring all of your favourite characters from the Mushroom Kingdom!
There are a few other nice surprises available this week, too, so find out what else you can expect to find on retail and digital store shelves around the world over the next seven days:
One more time…
Even though this is the last week of significant videogame releases, we’re still being treated to a good collection of titles across all platforms and for all tastes, so if you enjoy some awesome 2D platforming fun with a friend, going on a journey in the sky, throwing muscle-bound fighters around in a ring or becoming the Dark Knight on PC, there’s a little something for everyone.
Find out what new games are releasing to retail (and digital) stores over the course of this week:
Nintendo has today announced that a black version of the new Wii (revealed earlier this year) will soon become available bundled with Mario Kart Wii, which the company says is “a perfect present for racing fans this Christmas.”
Is this the last big week of the year?
The massive, insanely hectic period of massive videogame releases starts wrapping up this week with another deluge of exciting titles, with opportunities to roam through Constantinople open-world style, race across the US in a deadly contest, revisit a classic adventure, jump and bop through a magical 3D land and paint the town red with a bunch of ‘saints.’
Discover the games you can expect to show up on store shelves around the world this week with El33tonline’s round-up below:
It’s time once again to win with El33tonline because we’re giving away download codes for the wonderfully charming puzzle platform game, Max & the Magic Marker: Gold Edition on PS3!
In the game, you’ll be tasked with drawing objects and shapes into the world to help Max progress through the levels - any shape you can imagine can be drawn to act as platforms or to help you solve environment puzzles, which definitely act as great, satisfying brain teasers!
Lisa’s review of Max & the Magic Marker: Gold Edition called the game “a wonderfully charming 2D puzzle platformer” and noted the multitude of challenging levels and tons of collectibles that will keep you coming back for more - high praise!
We’ve got two codes to give away - one for the US PlayStation Store and one for the EMEA Store - and for a chance to win one of them, simply answer an easy question at El33tonline’s Max & the Magic Marker: Gold Edition Competition page.
It’s a great game, so good luck with your entry!
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