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..."
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According to Nintendo Action (Acción), a Spanish gaming magazine, Nintendo is maybe planning another title in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Sega.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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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Doctor Octoroc gives us 8-bit renditions of our favorite christmas themes... with a video game twist!
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Nike and Honda aren't the only people doing hybrids now. Dave Bondi's AKASHI figure is a great smash-up of two of the worlds most noticeable characters, Mickey and Mario. The physical features of both melt together seamlessly as each lend a "hand" into creating something new. AKASHI stands a proud 9? tall and is limited to only 200 pieces.
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To celebrate the launch of Mario Super Sluggers, Charles Martinet, the voice actor for Mario, Luigi, Wario, and more will be in attendance at the Nintendo World Store in Manhattan on August 24th, signing autographs and giving out a mysterious special gift from Nintendo to those who purchase the new Mario sports title.
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"Mario and Sonic has made gaming history with over a million software units sold on the Nintendo Wii within the UK alone," SEGA Europe North MD Alan Pritchard told MCV. "The title has been an immediate hit from launch and we will continue to re-invest and market this title throughout the rest of the year with a hope of reaching over two million sales by the end of our financial year."
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The president of Sega of America, Simon Jeffery, has announced that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games has aready sold 10 million copies around the world.
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Will the release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 be enough to knock Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games off top spot?
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Having not been put off by losing the top spot three times, Sega's title is back at the top of the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40.
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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for Wii and DS has sold five million copies, but another collaboration between the two iconic characters is still up in the air, Sega tells Next Generation. "Getting Mario and Sonic together in the first place took so long, every decade, to make that happen," Sega of America COO and president Simon Jeffery said in a phone interview. "So I think rushing into any other collaboration is not going to happen. ... » Read More

Can Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games hold onto top spot for another week?
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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games makes a massive leap from 16th to take Gold...
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Xbox accounts for 61 per cent of units sold in UK.

The latest title in the former Sony exclusive franchise Devil May Cry has debuted in the UK's All Formats charts at number one, with the lion's share of sales on the Xbox 360.

Sixty one per cent of sales were on the Microsoft console, with the rest on Sony's PlayStation 3 and PC. The game is number one in the All Formats charts but also the individual format charts as well.
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Next-Gen reports, Sight Training leads a Nintendo platform only top five comprised of three DS and two Wii titles.

The joint best represented system is PlayStation 3, with first-party title Uncharted, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed and Activision's Call of Duty 4 all making the top ten for the week ended February 3.

01. Sight Training (DS)
02. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)
03. Bratz: 4 Real (DS)
04. Ghost Squad (Wii)
05. More Brain Training (DS)
06. Smackdown! vs. Raw 2008 (PS2)
07. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
08. Assassin's Creed (PS3)
09. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360)
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3)
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Famitsu reports via VGChartz, that the weekly sales between Jan 14th to Jan 20th in Japan were the following:

Console :

DSL : about 91k
Wii : about 76k
PSP : about 65k
PS3 : about 32k
PS2 : about 13k
360 : about 4.4k

Software:

1. Wii Fit (Wii) : about 108k (total about 1.11m)
2. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (DS): about 91k
3. Mario Party DS (DS): about 38k (total about 1.53m)
4. Wii Sports (Wii): about 31k (total about 2.65m)
5. Wii Play (Wii): about 19k (total about 2.14m)
6. Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP): about 18k (total about 1.57m)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS): about 17k (total 714k)
8. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (Wii): about 17k (total 474k)
9. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii): about 17k (total about 844k)
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii): about 15k (total about 1.15m)
11. Mario Kart DS (DS): about 14k (total about 2.80m)
12. FF4 (DS): about 11k (toal about 559k)
13. School Days L x H (PS2): about 11k
14. DQ4 (DS): about 10k (total about 1.15m)
15. Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (DS): about 10k (total813k)
16. New Super Mario Bros. (DS): about 10k (total about 5.06m)
17. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS): about 10k (total about 4.56m)
18. Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2): about 9.6k (total about 605k)
20. Rune Factory 2 (DS): about 8.8k (total about 83k)
21. Everybody's Golf Portable 2 (PSP): about 8k (total about 202k)
23. Call of Duty 4 (PS3) : about 7.8k (total about 58k)
24. Star Ocean 1 First Departure (PSP): about 7.7k (total about 183k)
25. Power Pro kun Pocket 10 (DS): about 7.7k (total about 215k)

This week Upcomings :

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No soft is released

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Nothing special

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Software Total:
DS: 609,840
Wii: 570,059
PS3: 238,450
360: 203,563
PS2: 134,850
PSP: 24,268

1. Wii Sports (Wii) 119,835 6,379,604
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) 96,291 1,322,339
3. More Brain Training (DS) 83,439 3,111,330
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) 68,012 1,563,768
5. Brain Training (DS) 65,928 4,900,545
6. Wii Play (Wii) 55,725 2,715,265
7. New Super Mario Bros (DS) 47,174 3,855,957
8. Assassins Creed (PS3) 46,113 1,137,639
9. Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (DS) 40,318 681,888
10. Nintendogs (DS) 39,444 8,685,024
11. Pokemon Diamond / Pearl (DS)38,614 3,267,347
12. Uncharted: Drakes Fortune 38,285 545,022
13. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PS2) 34,657 2,157,160
14. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PS3) 31,894 928,084
15. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) 30,592 962,322
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