The first graph of February 2021 put the two inevitable culprits in the top positions: Modern Warfare at 1st and Black Ops Cold War in 2nd, with the rest of the top ten as usual slipped below. A little further down, however, the power of Xbox Game Pass is at work with Bloober Team’s psychological horror game The Medium, which first appeared on 15. Just today, Bloober Team announced that The Medium has already sold enough to cover development and marketing costs, despite the fact that it was launched less than a week ago. Luke thought it was a ‘unique but flawed gem’, and while prices can be a bit high at $ 50 / £ 40, it’s definitely worth a try if you’ve an Xbox Game Pass membership has. You can visit Luke’s The Medium Review for more information. Xbox Game Pass also raised a new recent release in the top 40, with Cyber Shadow standing at 39.
Sea of Thieves, meanwhile, is two places higher than 16th. The first season of the game was launched a few days ago with three new achievements. The developers have also added a new 120Hz Performance mode for Xbox Series X consoles. As each season contains a lot of new content, Sea of Thieves is likely to see the charts rise even further. Cyberpunk 2077, on the other hand, dropped three places to 17th. Recently, CD Projekt released Red hotfixes to sort out a game-breaking bug introduced with the latest patch. CDPR will be working on improving Cyberpunk for some time, so it will be interesting to see where the game ends up in future maps.
There’s a lot of uproar going on in this week’s chart, with NBA 2K21, Dead by Daylight, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, PUBG, Battlefield V and Donut County all falling to 25, 26, 27, 28, 29th and 30th respectively. This week we also bring three appearances, all neatly put together: Division 2 is back in 36th place, with Fallout 76 in 37th place and Fifa 21 in 38th place. Black Ops III, meanwhile, has completely dropped the top 40, while the other disappearances of this week include Skate 3, DayZ, For Honor and Injustice 2.: we have Control: Ultimate Edition launching tomorrow, with Little Nightmares 2 arrive later. in the month, along with any February Xbox Game Pass additions that Microsoft may have up its sleeve. Interestingly, Hitman 3, which was one of the biggest releases in January, has yet to appear on our Xbox game card, although it is rising fast on our PlayStation game card. What do you think? Are any of the February launches going to make the top ten? Let us know in the comments!