Mad Max

Veering away from massive open world destruction into post-apocalyptic, vehicular exploration, Mad Max was an odd turn for Avalanche Studios. It was about upgrading your car, the Magnum Opus, and taking on convoys. It was about assaulting bases and brawling with baddies. There were the unoriginal side quests, sure, but the sheer expanse of its rolling dunes and spectacle of the vehicle combat helped Mad Max stand out.

Total War: Three Kingdoms has been a huge success for Sega and Creative Assembly, from both a sales and critical reception point of view. In fact, it may even have been bigger than originally thought. We got a look at the first ever weekly digital chart sales for the UK, and it paints a much different picture than its physical counterpoint– and Total War rules the roost.

GamesIndustry got a look at the first weekly digital UK chart, the GSD, and it puts Total War: Three Kingdoms on top, with Grand Theft Auto V in number 2. It’s a startlingly different picture than the physical sales chart. For instance, number 1 there at debut, Team Sonic Racing, didn’t even crack the top 10. According to GamesIndustry, it was number 13. It’s worth noting that the chart did not include statistics from Nintendo (along with Bethesda and Konami opting out), and that could help explain the huge disconnect without the Switch version.

Still, it is quite a difference between the two lists, but it just goes to show there’s still a pretty big difference between how people purchase games physically and digitally, and that discounts can play a big impact in digital charts, as seen by the presence of Cities: Skylines, Uno, and Monopoly Plus.

You can see the top ten for the week ending May 26th below.

1. Total War: Three Kingdoms
2. Grand Theft Auto V
3. Monopoly Plus
4. Minecraft
5. FIFA 19
6. Cities:Skylines
7. Red Dead Redemption 2
8. Uno
9. F1 2018
10. Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

Rockstar’s highly popular and ever-evolving Grand Theft Auto Online is offering out some big bonuses over the next week. Starting now and running up until April 24^th, you will receive double rewards for Contact Missions and the Doomsday Scenario Finale.

For Contact Missions, you start off by giving any one of Gerald, Lamar, Ron, Trevor, Lester, Martin, or Simon a call. For the Doomsday Scenario Finale, you will need to infiltrate Mount Chilliad, where an armed nuclear warhead is set to destroy everything. You’ll have to prevent the warhead from launching and escape however you can. The Doomsday Heist was free DLC and should be available for all current players.

To help with the Heist, there’s also a 40% off sale on Facilities, the Pegassi Oppressor, TM-02 Khanjali, HVY Chernobog, Mammoth Thruster, and more to help you out. There’s also some premium races for Muscle Cars on Route 68 from April 19 to April 22, and Sports Cars at Wiwang Park from April 23 to April 24.

Grand Theft Auto 5, which includes Grant Theft Auto Online, is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You can read more about the events Rockstar’s website. In related news, we recently got a bit of a mini-update on the elusive yet inevitable Grand Theft Auto 6- read more on that through here.

The main rules to keep in mind for this list are that we deliberately avoided major crossover titles like Smash, PlayStation All Stars and MvC because then it would be no fun, and that really, that fun, is what this is all about, so you probably shouldn’t take it any more seriously than we are, which is not at all.

We begin our journey in the inconspicuous little golf game, Everybody’s Golf 5, perhaps better known in North America as Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds on PS3 takes us for a relaxing day on the links. As it turns out, even patricidal Greeks get a bit of downtime now and then. Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta, was introduced to the game in 2008 as a playable DLC character, where he could channel his unquenchable rage into something a bit more productive, using a rather unique chain club. Since this was before 3, I guess he chilled out between his latest PS4 game by taking up pottery instead?

Super Meat Boy

As an early indy hit, Super Meat Boy had to earn all of the praise it got to show that smaller teams could be worth just as much attention. Super Meat Boy then had a lot of confidence in the mechanics surrounding the super tight platforming gameplay to not offer players a way to just cruise to the credits. Losing the idea of lives lives and allowing the player to restart the small stages roughly 12 times per second until the proverbial brick wall was beaten down allowed many to find their groove and not really even notice death.

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Trevor – Grand Theft Auto V

While later entries on this list might make him seem like a teletubby, Trevor from GTAV is still quite a reprehensible person. A product of circumstances and environment that make Trevor the sociopath he is becomes a huge part of the commentary of the game, and make Trevor one of the more sympathetic examples here, even if we still wouldn’t have him over for dinner.

Within the usual suite of weekly events that PC, Xbox One and PS4 players of GTA Online can enjoy such as new vehicles, discounts and events, Rockstar Games is celebrating Business Week with a whole lot of free money. Players who log into the game between now and Monday, May 14 will receive in game cash to the sum of $250K. Each subsequent login will add 150K to that payout, meaning that simply logging into the game each day this runs will earn you a cool $1,000,000 in GTA fun bucks.

If that still isn’t enough money for you, Double GTA$ and RP will come from any contact missions you do, as well as stunt races and the special vehicle circuit races. But wait, that’s not all. As even further incentive, a Vanilla Unicorn t-shirt and Black Ammu-Nation hat will be given to you just for playing. 

If you need something to spend all of that money on, a wide array of properties have been discounted to 50% off, a list of which can be found below the story. If you need a new ride, the Overflod Tyrant and Vapid Dominator can be purchased at Legendary Motorsport for $2,150,000 and at Southern San Andreas Super Autos for $35,000 respectively. 

Properties

• Executive Offices – 50% off
• Biker Clubhouses – 50% off
• All Yachts and Yacht Modifications – 50% off
• Bunkers – 40% off
• Hangars – 40% off
• Facilities – 30%

On the Ground

• Mobile Operations Center – 30% off
• Armored Kuruma – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• Nagasaki Shotaro – 30% off (Purchasable once you play a round of Deadline)
• HVY Barrage – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• Ocelot Ardent – 30% off
• BF Dune FAV – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• Bravado Half-Track – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• BF Ramp Buggy – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• Cheval Taipan – 30% off
• Ocelot Pariah – 30% off
• Pegassi Tempesta – 30% off
• Grotti Cheetah – 30% o
• Grotti Stinger  30% off
• Truffade Z-Type – 30% off

In the Air

• Mammoth Avenger – 30% off
• FH-1 Hunter – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• Buckingham Akula – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)
• Western Company Seabreeze – 30% off (Buy It Now & Trade Price)

Vehicle Upgrades & Weapon Customization

• Mobile Operations Center Upgrades – 30% off
• Mammoth Avenger Renovations – 30% off
• Benny’s Upgrade – 30% off
• Engine Upgrades – 30% off
• Handling Upgrades – 30% off
• Brake Upgrades – 30% off
• Transmission Upgrades – 30% off
• Turbo – 30% off
• Suspension – 30% off
• Spoilers – 30% off
• Mk II Upgrades – 25% off (Cost to upgrade to Mk II weapon)

Grand Theft Auto has been one of the major players in games media for years, at least since GTAIII in 2001 brought the series to 3D and into the mainstream attention. It’s now estimated by Marketwatch that the originally released in 2013 Grand Theft Auto V has sold 90 Million units and raked in roughly $6 Billion dollars worth of revenue for Rockstar. 

While some of the data cited by Marketwatch is suspect, such as the platform breakdown which uses VGChartz as a source, the rest of the data comes from more solid sources and can likely be taken at face value. What does this mean? Well this means that not only has GTAV vastly outsold the closest competition in gaming, but that GTAV is the single most profitable piece of entertainment ever created. 

The highest grossing movie of all time, Avatar comes up pretty far short of Rockstar’s opus with a pride shrinking $2.8 Billion dollars. Grand Theft Auto V has also seen stock in the company rise nearly 1000% since release. While Rockstar swims in their money vaults, let us know if you’re still playing GTAV in the comments.

Here are fourteen moments from the last decade when a video game had that sort of an impact on us. If you agree or disagree with any of our choices, sound off in the comments section below.

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UNCHARTED 2: AMONG THIEVES- THE TRAIN SET PIECE

The train set piece from Uncharted 2 is a thing of legends at this point, much like the rest of the game itself. With Uncharted 2, Naughty Dog showed the world that blockbuster action sequences can be done as well as they can in movies, if not better, and that they don’t just have to be lengthy, flashy cutscenes. The train section from Uncharted 2 combined everything that the game was so good at. Platforming, combat, heart-pumping action and flashy cutscenes all came together into a single, seamless sequence, that was made even better by the fact that it was all completely interactive. The Uncharted series has been trying to one-up the train set piece ever since, with the plane crash in Uncharted 3 and the intense jeep chase in Uncharted 4, and while there’s nothing but good things to be said about both of those, the train remains, to this day, the undisputed king.

UPDATE: Added source link to ZHugeEX.

Original story continues:

We already knew that Grand Theft Auto 5 was a gargantuan success- after all, it is the highest selling game of all time, with over 50 million units sold worldwide. GTA Online continues to generate a steady source of revenue for Rockstar and their parent company Take-Two as well. But what we didn’t know was just how much ancillary revenue the game has managed to generate.

Take Two have revealed that sales of Grand Theft Auto products since July 1st 2013 through September 30th 2015 have accounted for approximately $2.3 billion in revenue, reports ZHugeEX. Now of course, the majority of these numbers come directly from GTA 5 and GTA: Online. But other GTA products that have launched since, such as re-releases of older games on other platforms, and merchandize, have also been generating a fair amount of that money.

That is seriously insane. Grand Theft Auto 5 is a great game, too, so it’s nice to see the masses agree to the critical consensus for once. Now be nice, Rockstar, and give us some good single player story DLC for the game.