Last year, 2009, turned into a sensational twelve months for Activision as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ended the year as the best-selling videogame topping the coveted 2009 All Formats Chart, according to data released today by ELSPA/GfK Chart-Track. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has continued to set new records since its release in November last year, grossing more than £67 million in its first week of sales.
BestBuy.com is offering several Nintendo Wii video games on sale this week at the best prices online or in stores. Games include Metroid Prime: Trilogy, Collector's Edition for $19.99, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games for $29.99, EA Sports Active for $49.99 and more. See complete for details.
Amazon.com recently discounted several top-selling brand new video games to under $40. Included in the list is Left 4 Dead 2, Forza Motorsport 3 and several more.
Wii games and hardware take up eight of the top ten highest-selling items in the website's video games department, with the console itself at the top of the list.
Danny Cowan from Gamasutra writes: 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 February 5th, 2009, find Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War at the top of North America's Xbox 360 software sales charts, while Star Ocean: Second Evolution and Mario Kart DS drive sales on portables. 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...
According to Nintendo Action (Acción), a Spanish gaming magazine, Nintendo is maybe planning another title in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Sega.
Sega has issued a straight no comment on rumours that a second Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is set to be unveiled. According to the totally un-subtle next month page in Spanish Mag Nintendo Accion, the second Wii party game will take place at the Winter Olympics. Sounds like a no brainer to CVG, both in terms of variety (ski jumps!) and Sega's wallet.
It's the money, stupid. And enough gamers buy crappy Sonic games for Sega not to care, according to an anonymous Sega employee. Boss Rush was an anonymous blog, currently deleted, run by someone who actually turned out to be Sonic Europe employee Ben Andac (who is no longer with the company).
Despite being on retail shelves for over a year, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is still flying out of stores, with the popular title nearing the magical mark of two million in sales. According to MCV, Sega has confirmed that sales currently stand at nearly 1.3 million on Wii and 460 000 on the Nintendo DS. Our aim is to hit two million by the end of 2008, Sega UK sales director John Clark told MCV. Only Wii Play has more lifetime sales on Wii which tells its own story. And so far this year M&S has only been outsold on Wii by Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii.
Mirror's Edge has won the overall award in Game People's 2008 Age Awards. Having been nominated in their Workers category it managed to accrue many more reader votes than other short listed games.
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