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Red Dead Redemption 2 is top of the UK sales chart once again as we reach the penultimate week before Christmas. The week ending December 15 saw Rockstar’s open-world title sell more physical copies than any other game, despite heavy retailer discounts helping some big hitters to climb the chart.

FIFA 19 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 were two of those AAA titles to rise up the chart–EA’s sports sim climbed one place to No.2 and Activision’s shooter is up four places to No.3. Nintendo’s Switch exclusive Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, meanwhile, is down three places to No.4 after a strong debut last week.

The Christmas No.1 will be confirmed in next week’s chart, with Red Dead Redemption 2, Black Ops 4, and FIFA 19 all vying for top spot. Those three games were awarded, 9, 8, and 7/10 respectively in GameSpot’s reviews; check out the full verdicts below.

You can read the full top 10 sales chart for this week below, courtesy of UKIE and GfK Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

1. Red Dead Redemption 2
2. FIFA 19
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
6. Spyro Reignited Trilogy
7. Battlefield V
8. Forza Horizon 4
9. Spider-Man
10. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

6. Better Watch Out (2016)

The most recent movie on this list, this smart, subversive shocker can be found on the horror streaming service Shudder. The movie starts as a fairly standard home invasion horror, as a teenage babysitter and the 12-year-old boy she is looking after over the Christmas period are forced to deal with terrifying, masked, shotgun-carrying intruders. But a clever twist a third of the way in turns the movie on its head, and leads to a far more original, but equally tense next hour. Better Watch Out is marked by dark humour, strong performances, and a couple of satisfyingly gruesome kills. The holiday setting is more a backdrop than a major plot point, but it’s a strong entry into the canon of Christmas horror movies.

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Nintendo didn’t invent the plug-and-play console, but it certainly popularized it. Introduced in 2016, the NES Classic is a miniature version of the retro console that comes with 30 fantastic games loaded onto it. It sold out fast and was all but impossible to find in stock for many months. The following year, Nintendo released the SNES Classic, which comes with 20 games and was also extremely popular. Unfortunately, Nintendo has announced it will soon cease production of the tiny consoles in the Americas.

But it’s not too late. You can still get your hands on both consoles before they’re gone for good. Read on to see where you can still find them in stock, along with accessories like additional controllers, wireless controllers, and carrying cases for taking them on the go.

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In our NES Classic review, Peter Brown wrote, “The NES Classic is an affordable solution for playing NES games, and the fact that it outperforms existing Virtual Console efforts from a technical standpoint makes it the most attractive option to boot.”

Its successor received similarly high marks. In our SNES Classic review, Michael Higham wrote, “To have this lineup of iconic games in one place, in an easy, accessible, and convenient fashion makes the SNES Classic worth seeking out. If Nintendo’s looking to capitalize on 16-bit nostalgia, I’d say it did a damn fine job.”

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said, “We’ve been clear that, at least from an Americas perspective, these products are going to be available through the holiday season and once they sell out, they’re gone.”

That means now is likely your last chance to pick up one of these classic consoles for its regular price. After that, the market will determine the value, and the market tends to price out-of-stock Nintendo items above the MSRP.

Konami has released a free-to-play version of PES 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Named PES 2019 Lite, the downloadable title includes a limited selection of the full game’s modes.

Exhibition matches and skill training are the offline offerings, with PES League–including 1v1 and co-op matches–and My Club available for those who wish to play online. Master League and Random Selection Mode are therefore the main exceptions from the full version.

We enjoyed Konami’s sports sim here at GameSpot; critic Richard Wakeling awarded the game a 9/10 in our PES 2019 review. “For as long as EA continues to develop FIFA and hold a monopoly over official licences, PES will be the scrappy underdog just hoping for a surprise upset, even when it’s fielding the likes of London Blue and PV White Red,” he wrote. “The lack of licences for top-tier leagues remains a disheartening sticking point, but PES continues to make brilliant strides on the pitch, building on what was already an incredibly satisfying game of football to produce one of the greatest playing football games of all time. It might be lacking off the pitch, but put it on the field against the competition and a famous giant killing wouldn’t be all that surprising.”

Konami continues to update the game with squad updates and new player faces, though it still lacks some big team licenses. For more on that topic, check out our feature on how EA and FIFA beat Konami and PES to football’s biggest licenses.

PES’s mobile version has been updated, meanwhile. What used to be PES 2018 Mobile is now PES 2019 Mobile, which includes local 1v1 matches as well as a mobile edition of My Club. PES 2019 Mobile is out now for iOS and Android.