Sports

THQ and Adidas have “amicably resolved” a dispute over a fitness game designed to tie in with the sports equipment firm’s MiCoach digital exercise measurement system. More >

FIFA Street is the new UK all-formats number one, EA's tricksy football game giving the publisher a third consecutive chart-topper following Mass Effect 3 and SSX. With another EA football game, FIFA 12, at number four, it means EA titles occupy the top four spots in the UKIE-compiled chart, a feat the publisher has only managed twice before, in two consecutive weeks in 2003. More >

Electronic Arts has moved to improve security on its FIFA Ultimate Team online game, which has been linked to phishing scams and the hacking of Xbox Live accounts. EA has staunchly denied that lax Ultimate Team security is behind the spate of Xbox Live account thefts; both it, and Microsoft, attribute it to players falling victim of phishing scams, which this update seeks to address. More >

SSX is the new UK all-formats number one, EA's snowboarding reboot taking top spot in its first week on sale. This will be the last EA game to be stocked by Game Group, the UK's biggest specialist videogame retailer, due to a credit dispute. The retailer's financial woes have also led to it failing to stock Nintendo-published titles including Tekken 3D Prime Edition, The Last Story and Mario Party 9, the last of which enters the chart at number three despite its absence from Game's shelves. More >

While the construction of fiendish, undulating assault courses will still likely be the main focus of most players, RedLynx has broadened its genre palette with scrolling shooters, pinball and even an FPS. More >

EA has confirmed that SSX, the upcoming reboot of its snowboarding series, will use the company's online pass. Rather than lock second-hand buyers out of the game's multiplayer component entirely, however, it prevents them from accruing the in-game currency used to unlock vanity items and additional events. More >

EA's FIFA 12 is once again the UK all-formats number one, retaining the crown it has held every week so far this year. In second spot is Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which climbs two places after sales rose eight per cent week on week. More >

FIFA 12 is the UK all-formats number one for a third week in succession despite a decline in sales of 63 per cent. Only one game in the entire top 40 saw its sales increase from the previous week, with the nation's collective downward gaze at its post-Christmas paunch helping 505 Games' Zumba Fitness climb 13 places to number six. More >

EA's FIFA 12 secured the last UK all-formats number one of 2011 after sales rose 34 per cent week on week. Christmas number one The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim slips seven places to number eight after sales fell 62 per cent. More >

Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD has been announced for release on "digital platforms" in the first half of next year. The game, revealed by Tony Hawk himself on the red carpet before last night's Spike VGAs, contains levels from the first two games in the series remastered in HD. Hawk said that the School and Downhill levels would be included, and the below teaser trailer reveals that Warehouse, the original game's opening stage, also features. More >

FIFA 12 is the new number one in the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The sight of EA's latest football title at the summit is no surprise after FIFA 11 occupied top spot for seven weeks out of ten over the summer. Last week's number one, Gears Of War 3, falls to number two. More >