Need For Speed Most Wanted

How often has this happened to you? You're sitting there, playing the latest Need for Speed game and trash-talking all the competition, but then you have a sudden urge to stop playing and construct your own NFS vehicles with buildable block sets. Well lucky you - that urge will soon be satiable...

EA has announced that the Need for Speed franchise has surpassed 100 million units sold life to date. The recent release of Need for Speed Shift pushed the franchise over the 100M mark, making it the best-selling racing brand in the gaming world. The franchise has generated over $2.7 billion in life-to-date sales.

Kotaku: Here's the list, which eschews games like Fable and Assassin's Creed in favour of some games with a more...Japanese fare. Idolmaster Idolmaster Live 4 U Viva Pinata Need for Speed: Most Wanted Perfect Dark Zero Bullet Witch Fight Night: Round 3 Rainbow Six: Vegas Each of those games will go for ¥2000 (USD$21), which might be a challenge for Microsoft, since you can find some of those games used for under ¥1000 (USD$10). Then again, others will be bargains! As with everywhere else, Games on Demand will launch in Japan on August 11.

Many years ago there was a video games crash in which any developers and publishers went bust almost every week. It was a slump for video gaming and the industry took years to recover. With the current economic crisis it has been speculated that we too would see a crash in the market, and it looks true.

If you're anything like us, you love good games at a cheap price. Unfortunately, when shopping for 360 games, this confines us to the bargain been at local retail outlets which typically discount used games by as little as a couple bucks off the original price. Enter Microsoft's semi-new (new to the 360 library, anyway) Platinum Hits collection of cheapy 360 titles. Microsoft selected four games to lead the Platinum Hits charge (all priced at $29.99), and it should come as no surprise which

Here are the Top 20 best selling Xbox 360 titles in Japan, as of June 20, 2006. 144,847 units of Xbox 360 were sold in Japan since its launch in December 2005: 1.Dead or Alive 4 (Tecmo) - 89,255 units 2.Ridge Racer 6 (Bandai Namco) - 59,509 units 3.Ninety Nine Nights (Microsoft) - 34,418 units 4.Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft) - 26,085 units 5.Rumble Roses XX (Konami) - 25,331 units 6.Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft) - 24,704 units 7.Enchanted Arms (From Software) - 20,233 units 8.Need For Speed Most Wanted (EA) - 17,973 units 9.Final Fantasy XI (Square Enix) - 13,865 units 10.Dynasty Warriors 5 Special (Koei) - 10,957 units 11.FIFA 06 Road to the FIFA World Cup (EA) - 7,283 units 12.Battle Field 2 Modern Combat (EA) - 6,581 units 13.Over G (Taito) - 6,265 units 14.Pro Baseball Spirits 3 (Konami) - 5,681 units 15.Wrestle Kingdom (Yuke's) - 5,301 units 16.Tetris the Grand Master Ace (AQ Interactive) - 5,184 units 17.Kameo Elements of Power (Microsoft) - 5,121 units 18.2006 FIFA World Cup Doitsu Taikai (EA) - 5,006 units 19.Tengai Makyo Ziria (Hudson) - 4,944 units 20.Call of Duty 2 (Activision) - 4,773 units