Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.

This week's charts, with data taken from March 12th, 2009, find Killzone 2 heading PlayStation 3 sales in North America, as Empire: Total War rules the PC charts in the U.S. and Europe.

Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows:
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According to VGChartz and Killzone 2; over 60% of all Killzone 2 players have gone online to test themselves in the multiplayer component of the game...

That's a pretty impressive number that will help backup Sony's claim that free online gaming is the way to go.
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Sony Canada has decided to pull about 300 bus shelter Killzone 2 ads throughout the Greater Toronto Area following a string of complaints by parents regarding the violent imagery. Davis Mirza, a 4/5 grade teacher, contacted Sony Canada when he noticed one such ad on display at a bus shelter near his Scarborough school.
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On retail shelves for just about 2 weeks, the PS3 exclusive has now sold over 1 million copies. On the opening weekend, Killzone 2 went on to sell about 700,000 copies in North America and Europe. Over the course of the next week, it went on to sell another 300,000 copies, which represents a drop off of about 50% - a pretty decent showing considering the title was launched in a non-holiday period. In total, the game has sold about 1.05 million copies thus far.
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Mr. Sark over at G4/Tech TV is doing a gamer challenge for Killzone 2. Join into his boot camp where he promises you will play game modes that you have never played before and you will never play again.
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1Up: Sony still isn't prepared to make every one of their high-profile releases available day-and-date online and retail, said PlayStation Network senior director Susan Panico at today's webcasted Morgan Wedbush Morgan Securities New York MAC conference.

SOCOM: Confrontation and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue were two PlayStation 3 releases made available online via PlayStation Network and at retail last year. LittleBigPlanet and Killzone 2, two other PS3 releases, were not.

"One of the things we found, though, was that the Blu-ray disc experience for marquee games like that [LittleBigPlanet] currently just work better because the consumer wants to go in and get that physical product," explained Panico to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. "They want to go in and get the extra goodies that they get on the disc."

There's another reason, though, one we've heard many times before.
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GamerDeals.net writes:

"Some would argue that the Gamefly 'most queued' should be taken with a grain of salt. Generally, it is apparent that the Xbox 360 is the most common rental platform that absolutely skews the results. In addition, one could argue that a title that appears near the top of the list is there because it is worth a rental versus a purchase. With that being said, it is still a decent gauge on the level of interest for a particular game.

For the week of March 10, 2009, Halo Wars once again takes the top spot on the cross-platform Gamefly Top Ten 'Most Queued' list. Following close behind is Resident Evil 5 (PS3, Xbox 360). MadWorld is at the top of the Nintendo Wii Queue as well...

Queue up the complete Gamefly Top 10 most requested lists:"
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Killzone 2 lead level designer Neil Alphonso has left Guerilla Games to join the UKs Splash Damage.

Alphonso, who has also worked on Splinter Cell and Duke Nukem Forever, will work on the triple A game in development for Fallout 3 publisher Bethesda.
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The PS Blog recap all the weeks happenings in PS Land.
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The Dutch PlayStation website PSFocus.nl went to Guerrilla Games yesterday for yet another interview with the developers. This interview will come online later this week, but during the interview they gained information about the Killzone 2 Home space and Home integration.

At the moment Guerrilla Games is hard at work with additional content for Killzone 2. There not just working on patches and the upcoming DLC, but also on full Home integration.

They are going to add everything that Home supports. This includes at least a KZ2 Home Space and gamelaunching. The rest of the information is still classified, but there is some more information in the news item on the site.
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It only took me two hours to come to the conclusion that Call of Duty 4 was finally trumped as king. My decision based upon writing this article fell only on the reason that I want every FPS fan to play this game. If you do not have a Playstation 3, and you love FPS, now is the best time to go ahead and pick one up, along with a copy of Killzone 2.
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Gamezine: Killzone 2 has been patched to version 1.2. Minor tweaks have been made to the controls.

Some have complained that Killzone 2's controls are "plagued" by input lag. Some say that it is a deliberate move by Guerilla Games to make Sev's moves feel realistic and weighty. I personally think they are two different issues.

The latest patch includes a few minor tweaks to controller input.

Some forumites are saying that the patch has improved the supposed input lag, including the removal of the controller's deadzones (there used to be a delay before turning around.)
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GamersDigest have received word from Seb Downie (Producer over at Guerilla Games) that the Killzone 2 servers are currently being updated.

"We are performing a server update and will also be deploying the game update straight after that to fix a number of issues.

The patch will be going live in Europe first and the US later on today."

The maintenance is expected to last no longer than one hour.
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From Softpedia - Killzone is, along with a few other titles, one of the key franchises for Sony's PlayStation brand of consoles. Having won over a lot of fans on the PS2 with the first title, the team at Guerrilla Games confirmed, with the PSP title Killzone: Retribution and now, with Killzone 2 already launched and gaining critical acclaim and fan popularity, that things are going great for the series.

But don't think that this means that the team at Guerrilla Games is taking a break, as it is already hard at work on elaborating the first batch of DLC (Downloadable Content) that will arrive in the near future for the Killzone 2 title. Steven Ter Heide, a producer at the company, has talked with GameSpot about the DLC, and how he wants it to respond to the desires of fans around the world.
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Loot Ninja writes: We're bringing it back. We took a slight break to get recovered after our Community Playdate, but it's time to rock out again with you good people. We're playing Killzone 2 for tonight's Game with Loot Ninja night. Look for us online or find the Game with Loot Ninja room. We'll be rocking out Warzone for a good while tonight.
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GameStop is offering a $50 GameStop.com online gift card with the purchase of a Sony PlayStation 3 80GB system or a PLAYSTATION 3 160GB Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Bundle.

The older PS3 60GB system has also appeared as a refurbished item, and GameStop knows it's worth more with its PS2 backwards compatibility and memory card slots. That will cost your more than a new 80GB PS3 ($399) at its $429.99 refurbished price tag (and no $50 gift card with the 60GB PS3 refurbished model).
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Friday, Feb. 27th, 2009…to Sony it marked the official launch of their exclusive first-person shooter Killzone 2, and the date the Helghast invaded many living rooms across the country. For some others, it marked the date Killzone 2 literally invaded, with a personal visit from a Helghast soldier to some of the gaming media in San Francisco.

Cameras picked up a rare peace offering trip where the Helghast put aside their differences with the human race and dropped off cupcakes with their likeness emblazoned on each treat. Of course, the Helghast couldn't pass up the opportunity to scare a few folks at IGN's offices, but good times were had by all.
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It isn't often that Microsoft's Xbox 360 is ousted from the top of GameFly's weekly console and portable rental charts. Of course, it also isn't often that an exclusive of Killzone 2's caliber is released. Last week, Guerrilla Games' critically lauded PlayStation 3-only sci-fi shooter debuted to avid rental enthusiasm, according to GameFly's rental activity for the week of February 24-March 2.

However, similar to the prior week's Street Fighter IV for the PS3 anomaly, the remainder of the chart belonged to the Xbox 360. Console exclusives Left 4 Dead, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, and Gears of War 2 picked up the second, third, and fifth slots in GameFly's chart, and Call of Duty: World at War placed fourth.
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Oxford-based motion capture expert Audiomotion has detailed its role in the making of PlayStation 3 exclusive Killzone 2.

Offering a suite of 130 Vicon MX40+ cameras, Audiomotion delivered all of the performance capture for the cutscenes and over 5000 in-game animations for the first-person-shooter.
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In a seeeming U-Turn, Guerilla Games have chosen to clarify their position on the most controversial subject that has surrounded KillZone 2; the control/aim sensitivity.

Despite previous articles submitted as news, Guerilla have never out right rejected the idea of releasing a patch to tweak the XY sensitivity as they emphasised they would look hard at feedback from players. That feedback has come to a resounding conclusion - the controls are an issue to a significant amount.

Read the forum posting to read their intentions.
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