Max Payne beats Diablo to UK No.1

Max Payne 3 outdid its predecessor by a factor of 10:1 in its first week on sale, pipping Diablo III to the UK All-Formats number one. It was the second-biggest launch of the year so far--just behind Mass Effect 3, and Take 2's first number one since LA Noire hit the top spot in 2011.


The official sales charts only include physical sales, however, as digital downloads are not tracked as part of the main chart. In stores and from traditional online retailers, 11 percent of Diablo III's sales were of the limited collector's edition, compared to two percent for Max Payne 3.

FIFA Street kept up its strong performance, slotting in at three, refusing to budge from the top five despite a 17 percent drop in sales. Last week's number one, Sniper Elite V2, saw a 68 percent drop in sales as it found itself in fourth place.

FIFA 12 rounded out the top five following an eight percent drop in sales, while Prototype 2 dropped to six after a 15 percent decline in sales. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 bucked the trend to post a 21 percent rise in sales and re-enter the top 10 at seven, sneaking ahead of Battlefield 3, which saw sales slip two percent.

The top 10 was rounded off by Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics.

Players in FIFA 2013 will look more realistic

The latest EA game, FIFA 13, will - in the words of artists - actors look much more realistic than in previous parts of the franchise. Will they hold the promise?


In previous parts of FIFA has been only a handful of players in the game a bit like the real players, but many have been in appearance almost unrecognizable (particularly those from slightly inferior clubs), but this will be the new part of the world-famous football franchise has changed.

Mike Harrison, Capture Manager of  EA says: "Only existent some three years ago, we slowly begin to realize how very important it is that faces are as realistic as possible. This year we are strongly focused on that. Through computers and through the studio Dimensional Imaging, slowly and carefully create a realistic and recognizable faces of large numbers of players. "


Director of Dimensional Imaging, Colin Urguhart, said this: "The graphics are improved from year to year, so it is even more necessary that through improved graphics, creating people who are almost to the last detail like real people in real life, but this process is very demanding, but also takes a long time - even creating a video game. "

Electronic Arts has been one of the first studios that were in operation on a more realistic image of a man in computer games. Dimensional Imaging, assisted by EA since 2009, when the game was released with FIFA 10 and believe that they will successfully fulfill their mission.