As you might expect given how much most consumers seemed to love it, Ubisoft’s open world shooter Far Cry 5was the best-selling game of March 2018 in the US.

If ever you needed a poster child for big budget gaming with a trio of As done right, then GTA V is the benchmark that all games wish to surpass. Only problem? It’s looking highly likely that GTA V’s position as a $6 billion highest selling form of entertainment will ever be toppled. Not even by GTA itself or even the old west in the form of Red Dead Redemption 2.

According to Ubisoft, Far Cry 5 is now the fastest selling game in the series, the second biggest launch for an Ubisoft game and has so far managed to rake in over $310 million in sales from both physical and digital units being moved.

Despite what might have been expected, Micrsoft's Games Pass isn't stealing away business from traditional games sales. Or at least Sea of Thieves is proving to be a strange first anomaly.

If Capcom wanted to start the day off on a good note, then here’s a piece of good news that currently has the suits in company pouring champagne and making it rain with dollar bills: Monster Hunter World is doing well. Damn well.

To date, the system has sold over 15 million units, which isn’t at all bad for an underpowered hybrid system that people didn’t think they wanted. There are still holdouts though. People who want a Switch, but are waiting for the inevitable hardware revision before making their purchase. Don’t hold your collective breath.

If you’ve played one Ubisoft game, you’ve most likely played them all. When it comes to the sandbox genre, the French developer and publisher is utterly obsessed with larger arenas within which to ply their various licenses such as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, Tom Clancy’s Watch Dogs or Tom Clancy’s Assassin’s Creed for example. It’s a genre which isn’t just …

The console itself has sold nearly 15 million, more than the Wii U did in its entire run.