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Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey picks what he believes will be the biggest sellers of 2008.
ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year voting poll registered 10673 participants. 1809 registered users voted for Call of Duty 4, 1279 for Halo 3, 1192 for Assassin's Creed, 837 for "None of the Above", 716 for BioShock, 710 for Crysis, 627 for The Orange Box, and so on. The rest of the results can be viewed in ActionTrip's voting poll section.
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Football title hits a million sales; Publisher says Pro Evo has 'faltered'.
EA's latest in the FIFA franchise becomes the first game released in 2007 to reach one million sales at UK retail.
Kotaku's Brian Crecente has a leaked copy of the National Institute on Media and the Family's annual Media Wise Video Game Report Card, set to be officially released tomorrow. This year's report card is broken into five parts:
Eurogamer writes:
LOVEFiLM, Europe's number one online DVD rental service, expects Assassin's Creed to top sales and rentals this holiday season.
To update your game, just run it. If you're connected to the PS Network the 20Mb patch will auto-install and the new game mode will show up.
Fifa 08 is the best football game this year on the Playstation 3. That's a fact. And now you can win $20.000 playing it in the world's only official FIFA football gaming tournament: The FIFA Interactive World Cup!
Australian GfK's weekly software sale charts for All Formats, PC, Xbox 360, DS, Wii, PS2, PS3, and PSP.
Link's latest Legend of Zelda adventure for Nintendo DS debuts at No1 in Spain and Germany, and at No2 in Sweden.
Australian GfK's weekly software sale charts for All Formats, Xbox 360, PC, PS2, PS3, DS, PSP, and Wii.
The Orange Box debuts at 3, Phantom Hourglass at 4
IGN is offering 40 readers the chance to become a record breaker by taking part in the biggest game of FIFA 08 in the world¿ Ever! Yep, you could become a FIFA world beater by joining team IGN and showing your skills as part of EA's London Games Festival event planned for next week.
UK's ChartTrack reports a 79 percent drop in sales for Halo 3 in its second week of release. EA's FIFA 08 claims the top spot in the PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, and All Formats Top 40 Charts; the PS2 version overtakes Halo 3 as this week's Individual Formats No. 1 in units sold.
Four editions of the latest football title bulk out the top six
FIFA 08 has been the big recent release on the Playstation 3, but has it done enough to go into top spot in its first week...