Early news seeping out from last week’s games sales makes SPOnG beam with regional pride today, pushing out our manly chests in a Yorkshire-is-best-have-that type way – with Wakefield’s own Team 17 and Rockstar Leeds boasting three of the top four PSP titles in this week’s PSP section of the Leisure software charts from ELSPA (compiled by Chart Track).
SPOnG’s good mates over at Team 17 claim second and fourth spot respectively with Lemmings – the handheld version of its classic PC games - and Worms: Open Warfare – the Yorkshire stalwart’s other much-loved, long-running and highly lucrative franchise.
Rockstar Leeds, not to be ‘out-Yorkshired’, claim the third place in the PSP chart with Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories – a title that just keeps selling like a m*therf*cker and just shows no sign of slowing down. This being its 21st week in the chart.
Oh and hang on, eyup and ekky thump! There’s a fourth Yorkshire lad in the higher echelons of the portable gaming charts this week. Sheffield-based Distinctive Developments' 3D Pool maintains the 10th spot in the O2 mobile phone chart. Oh, actually, forget it. It’s a mobile phone pool game. That shouldn’t really count.
Team 17, Rockstar Leeds and Distinctive Developments are all members of Game Republic, a regional alliance of high-tech companies operating in the computer and video games business, which receives funding from Yorkshire Forward and is part financed by The European Union.
"We're extremely pleased with the chart success both Lemmings and Worms: Open Warfare have proffered," said Martyn Brown, popular Leeds supporter and Studio Director at Team 17, adding, "it just goes to show proven franchises such as these have plenty of life left in them yet and are finding a whole new audience in PSP."
See you at the pub in a bit Martyn. Your round, we believe.
SPOnG’s good mates over at Team 17 claim second and fourth spot respectively with Lemmings – the handheld version of its classic PC games - and Worms: Open Warfare – the Yorkshire stalwart’s other much-loved, long-running and highly lucrative franchise.
Rockstar Leeds, not to be ‘out-Yorkshired’, claim the third place in the PSP chart with Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories – a title that just keeps selling like a m*therf*cker and just shows no sign of slowing down. This being its 21st week in the chart.
Oh and hang on, eyup and ekky thump! There’s a fourth Yorkshire lad in the higher echelons of the portable gaming charts this week. Sheffield-based Distinctive Developments' 3D Pool maintains the 10th spot in the O2 mobile phone chart. Oh, actually, forget it. It’s a mobile phone pool game. That shouldn’t really count.
Team 17, Rockstar Leeds and Distinctive Developments are all members of Game Republic, a regional alliance of high-tech companies operating in the computer and video games business, which receives funding from Yorkshire Forward and is part financed by The European Union.
"We're extremely pleased with the chart success both Lemmings and Worms: Open Warfare have proffered," said Martyn Brown, popular Leeds supporter and Studio Director at Team 17, adding, "it just goes to show proven franchises such as these have plenty of life left in them yet and are finding a whole new audience in PSP."
See you at the pub in a bit Martyn. Your round, we believe.
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DoctorDee 3 Apr 2006 13:35
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See you at the pub in a bit Martyn. Your round, we believe.
There are many things that can be said about Martyn, but that he doesn't stand his round is not one of them.
tyrion 3 Apr 2006 14:14
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DoctorDee wrote:
There are many things that can be said about Martyn, but that he doesn't stand his round is not one of them.
I'd also like to stand up for the pub hounour of Mr. Brown, not only does he stand his round, he's usually the first to the bar in each pub.