Modern Warfare 3 topped Sainsbury's sales list

November 30th, 2011, 01:07 Posted By: wraggster

In its first week of release, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the single best selling product at supermarket giant Sainsbury’s.
It’s one of the starkest illustrations yet of the changing landscape of the games retail sector in the UK.
The Telegraph reports that the retailer also predicts that its best selling item this week won’t be milk or bread or Vegemite – it will be the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. It is targeting 420k unit sales of the SKU before Christmas.
Commercial director Mike Coupe has outlined plans to increase non-food sales by 70 per cent.
In total Sainsbury’s owns about ten per cent of the UK’s overall non-food market and 17 per cent of its grocery market. The aim is to grow non-food to match this.
And with non-food growing at between two and three times the rate of food, this target certainly looks attainable.
The news comes as the UK’s leading games specialist GAME has had to fend off doom-mongers following a terrible set of financials.

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15 unsigned games shortlisted for Game Connection award

November 30th, 2011, 00:18 Posted By: wraggster

Game Connection Europe has shortlisted 15 unsigned games for its Selected Projects 2012 prize. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will also present an award on the night, and provide prizes for the winners.
"Sony Computer Entertainment Europe highly values new and imaginative games, and we have been consistently supportive of the creative companies and individuals that generate these new ideas," said SCEE's Andrew Parsons.
"It's great to see this in action at Game Connection and to play an active part in this."
Sony will provide development kits, support and training to the winner of Best Project 2012 and two runners up.
Those shortlisted include Muse Games' CreaVures, Coconut Island Studio's One Tap Hero and Orc Attack from UK studio Casual Brothers.
"It's vital to our industry that the major video game companies continue to support development at a grassroots level, so we're very pleased and excited that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has chosen to give its valuable support to the Selected Projects 2012 initiative," said Game Connection creator Pierre Carde.
"We're looking forward to the presentations and to once again seeing the enormous boost the Selected Projects initiative can give to unsigned projects."
The winners will be announced at Game Connection Europe, which takes place December 6-8 in Paris.

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Battlefield 3, NFS: The Run for $30; many others discounted in Origin Cyber Monday sa

November 29th, 2011, 00:20 Posted By: wraggster

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WRONG: Daily Mail proves once and for all: 'Violent games DO make people more aggress

November 29th, 2011, 00:07 Posted By: wraggster

Right. We've been gone for a while, but that hasn't stopped the Witless and Ridiculous Opinions of those pesky Non-Gamers from populating our public spaces - and this morning we've got a good'en.
Realising that their individual reports portraying gamers as frothing mentalists weren't quite ridiculous enough, this morning our friends at the Daily Mail have joined forces with the Sunday Times to conclusively confirm what Anne Diamond and co. always suspected...
'Violent video games DO make people more aggressive,' reads the Mail's imposing headline this morning, alongside the obligatory photograph of a small child playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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That's right, before we've even started, the Mail's headline is basing research conducted on 22 men - a football match - as evidence that those 6.5 million people who bought Modern Warfare 3 on day one will imminently transform into kitten-beating nut jobs.
Anyway, as you might expect once the Daily Mail article gets to the actual science bit, the Indiana University research doesn't specifically claim violent games make players more aggressive. It simply says games can 'alter' activity in certain areas of the brain.
The report said: "Subjects showed relatively less activation in prefontal regions associated with executive function following one week of violent video game playing.
"This investigation provides the first longitudial, experimental investigation of video game play on brain activity."
Even better, the research claims that when gamers stopped playing, their brains "returned to normal". So we suppose it's only the handheld gamers we should worry about punching us in the street.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Times chose the far more respectable headline of, 'Violent video games can alter how brain works'.
Earlier this year, a psychological study by Huddersfield University struggled to find a link between violent video games and aggression in players.
The research discovered that far from being 'pumped-up' whilst playing a violent game (Gears of War 2, if you're interested), its 40 test subjects were left physically unflustered by the experience - inclusive of heart rate, brain activity and respiration. This was thought to be because the participants could easily decipher that Gears of War bore no similarity to their everyday experiences.
This lack of aggression was later epitomised when a football title (PES) caused the opposite effect - more frustration, supposedly because players could relate sports to everyday real experiences, and so were more liable to become emotionally involved in proceedings.
See? Conclusive. 'Games DO NOT make people more aggressive,' will be our headline, and unlike the Mail piece, which started off so hostile, we won't conclude the article with a hugely contradictive statement like theirs: "They found no connection between the players behaviour and game playing."

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Walmart Black Friday sale descends into pepper-spray frenzy

November 28th, 2011, 23:27 Posted By: wraggster

If you’re one of those people who thinks that queuing up outside a shop in the middle of a night to ensure you’re first in line for a sale the next morning is mental, then try this one for size.
Scenes of chaos gripped a US branch of Walmart on Friday after the commencement of the shop’s Black Friday sale lead to a furious stampede that resulted in one shopper pepper-spraying her ‘competitors’.
Walmart’s San Fernando Valley outlet was already rammed with consumers when a whistle was blown at 10pm to signify the beginning of the Black Friday deals.
Masses of people suddenly rushed the video games isle in hope of grabbing discounted games and consoles.
"People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray," one shopper told the LA Times.
"I guess what triggered it was people started pulling the plastic off the pallets and then shoving and bombarding the display of games. It started with people pushing and screaming because they were getting shoved onto the boxes."
The video games section itself was effectively destroyed, with displays being torn down as staff tried to restrain the frenzied crowd.
"I heard screaming and I heard yelling," another added having been set upon by one woman who attacked a handful of shoppers with a can of pepper spray.
"Moments later, my throat stung. I was coughing really bad and watering up."
Still, on the up side it wasn’t all bad news. "I don't care. I'm still getting my TV. I've never seen Wal-Mart so crazy, but I guess it could have been worse,” 20 year old Nakeasha Contreras added.

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Aussie Telegraph claims 'Video Games Sending Kids Crazy'

November 28th, 2011, 23:22 Posted By: wraggster

Earnest and reputable mainstream newspaper The Daily Telegraph has today run a headline warning parents about the dangers of videogames.
The print edition ran the headline 'Video Games Sending Kids Crazy', while online the tag was 'Games Wage War on Young Minds.' Meanwhile, the full article carried the significantly more descriptive headline 'Distressed families flood psychiatrists over children dangerously addicted to computer games and the internet.'
The 'flooding' in question comes from the news that videogame addiction and internet addiction are currently candidates for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, although no numbers are given to support the growth of the condition.

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Games retailers back eBay store

November 28th, 2011, 23:06 Posted By: wraggster

Online auction giant eBay is hitting the High Street this week with the support of at least two games retailers.
Both Zavvi and Comet will have a presence at eBay’s temporary Christmas Boutique store in London’s West End from Thursday, December 1st to Monday, December 5th. Customers will be able to browse real life items in the shop, use a smartphone to scan the QR codes beside them and buy products online, with discounts of up to 70 per cent.
Online retailer Zavvi and electronics specialist Comet will have a range of goods on display to promote their own individual eBay pages. Zavvi is planning on selling Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and 3DS games including a selection of EA titles, Forza 3 on 360, Yoostar 2 on PS3, Just Dance on Wii and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D on the 3DS.
“We are very excited to be taking part in the eBay Christmas Boutique and will be providing some of our best selling items on eBay,” Paul Gedman, CEO of consumer for Zavvi.com, told MCV.“Our customers are big gaming fans clued up on all the latest technology, so we really hope they head down to take a look. What better way to be inspired, hunt for the best deals, and have fun shopping with ease and convenience using just their smartphone?”
The store will open from 10am to 6pm each day at 34 Dean Street in London. Ubisoft used the same store-for-hire to promote its Child of Eden Kinect game in June this year.

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UK online retail set for £13.5bn Xmas boom

November 28th, 2011, 23:01 Posted By: wraggster

It may be tough times on the High Street, but online retailers are expecting their most successful Xmas yet.
IMRG and Kelkoo both estimate £13.5bn will be spent in the UK online during the next four weeks, up 14 per cent over 2010. And consumers will be spending earlier than ever in a bid to avoid the snow chaos that disrupted deliveries last year.
IMRG says that £4bn will be spent over the first two weeks of December alone, while Monday, December 5th is tipped to be this year’s ‘Mega Monday’ – the biggest online sales day of the year.
But the growth in online spending is bad news for the High Street. Kelkoo estimates that spending will be 2.1 per cent down at traditional retailers over Christmas.
Online games retailers are preparing deals over the coming weeks to capitalise on the spending boom. Amazon has already kicked off its activity, with a week of temporary deals.
“Consumers seem to respond positively to price-led special promotions that can be found online around this time,” said HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo.“It’s an optimum date when peaks of supply and demand meet, and it just keeps getting bigger as online shopping grows.”
The Hut Group’s head of business development Sarah Jasper added: “We are confident this will be our busiest Christmas to date.”
Asda is preparing itself for its first Xmas with an in-house entertainment site.
“Now we have migrated the entertainment range onto the Asda Direct platform it gives us the opportunity to capitalise on the customer traffic driven through entertainment-led campaigns and new releases across the piste,” said Asda Direct’s trading boss Frazer Locke.

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LEGO Pirates and Just Dance 2 win at Children's BAFTAs

November 28th, 2011, 22:50 Posted By: wraggster

TT Games' LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean and Ubisoft's Just Dance 2 both snapped up trophies at the British Academy Children's Awards.
The swashbuckling adventure won in the Video Game category, while Just Dance 2 won in the Games category of BAFTA Kid's Vote, in which 7 - 11 year olds picked the winners.
Online game Binweevils won the BAFTA Kid's Vote Web category, with Moshi Monsters taking second place. Privates, a sex education game, won in Learning Secondary category.
Nose Dive Studios won the BAFTA Young Game Designers award with Rollin' Scotch, a game designed for iOS devices. Noah Shepherd, Louis Scantlebury, Nathaniel Weisberg, are all 15 years old and based in London.
The award is open to children aged between 11 and 16, and this year's jury included developers from TT Games, Sony Computer Entertainment's Cambridge Studio and EA Bright Light.

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Modern Warfare 3 tops UK charts for third week

November 28th, 2011, 22:48 Posted By: wraggster

Modern Warfare 3 held on to the number one spot in the UK all-formats chart for the third consecutive week.
The previous game in the series, Black Ops, was unseated by Gran Turismo 5 in its third week on sale.
However, after last week's bumper crop of new games major contenders have started to thin out, and Modern Warfare held its position despite sales falling 41 per cent.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations also held firm in second place - even with a 61 per cent decline in sales - while Saints Row: The Third moved past Skyrim into third position.
The highest new entries were THQ's WWE 12 and Nintendo's Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call, which entered the chart at 6th and 7th place respectively.
The only top 10 games to show growth were FIFA 12 and Just Dance 3 - both enjoyed an increase of 22 per cent over last week - which took 5th and 8th place respectively.
The last two places in the top 10 were taken by Battlefield 3 in 9th and Super Mario 3D Land in 10th.
Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo showed an 85 per cent increase in sales, jumping from number 18 to number 12 in the chart following a successful "Black Friday" promotion.
The lowest entry was Warner Bros. Interactive's The Lord Of The Rings: War In The North, which scraped into the top 40 at number 38.

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Australian ISP's To Crack Down On Piracy

November 28th, 2011, 22:40 Posted By: wraggster

The ABC is reporting that 'Australia's five major ISPs have revealed their plans to crack down on online piracy by sending warning notices to suspected illegal downloaders while assisting rights holders to pursue serial offenders through the courts.' The idea is that '[d]uring an 18-month trial, rights holders would send copyright infringement notices, including evidence of copyright infringement and the IP address involved, to ISPs who would then send "educational notices" to the internet users concerned.' Further action would entail that '[u]sers who are suspected of further copyright breaches would then receive up to three warning notices before rights holders are able to pursue court action.' This seems a gentler approach than other countries. Will it prove more effective and/or cost efficient?

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Fighting games haven't changed enough - Team Ninja

November 27th, 2011, 21:40 Posted By: wraggster

Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi says that the recent revival of the fighting genre is great, but things haven't changed much.

"To be completely honest, after Dead or Alive 4 we weren't sure what the future was going to be. We were trying to think of something new, but we weren't getting any ideas of what to do for 5," he told Siliconera candidly.
"Then we saw Street Fighter IV and the fighting genre come back because in a large part of Capcom and what they were doing. For all of the fighting games that came out we looked at them, but there was something wrong," added Hayashi.

"They looked great with updated graphics and had online gameplay, but the gameplay itself hasn't changed. It's still the gameplay we've had for years."

Hayashi says it was this lack of change that prompted to company to go for a more extreme approach to its fighting arenas and environments in the new Dead or Alive 5.

"We started to think how can we change the genre. What could we add new and put that into the fighting game? And that's how that idea came out," he said.

Team Ninja billed DOA 5 as 'fighting entertainment' during its TGS unveiling, and you can see why in this trailer.

"Dead or Alive is different from both of those. We're looking for simple, but deep fighting entertainment. We're not looking to be a technical hardcore fighter. We want a game that a lot of people can have fun with, but people who want that depth can find it. When people watch the second part of the demo that will give players a sense of what we're thinking of when we mean 'fighting entertainment'," concluded Hayashi.

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Fnatic pro gaming team gets limited edition headset and mouse from SteelSeries

November 27th, 2011, 21:18 Posted By: wraggster

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5th Cell boss: "The $60 boxed game is a broken model"

November 26th, 2011, 00:01 Posted By: wraggster

The games industry's insistence on selling big budget video games for $60 a pop is a broken model and needs fixing, so says the boss of 5th Cell - the developer behind DS hit Scribblenauts and forthcoming XBLA shooter Hybrid.Speaking in an interview with GameInformer, Jeremiah Slaczka argued that increased development and marketing costs mean that now only a small fraction of games have a chance of turning a profit."The $60 boxed game is a broken model," he claimed. "It was always broken, it's just more broken now because games cost so much to develop, produce and market."Before the model was tolerable, because the cost was reasonable enough to allow mediocre selling games to make money. Now it's just insane. If you aren't going to be a mega hit at $60, you might as well give up before you even try, because it's tens of millions down the hole."Slaczka offered THQ's Homefront FPS as a prime example, arguing that, compared to the likes of Call of Duty: Black Ops, it wasn't good enough to justify its $60 price tag."Homefront was an okay FPS - not great, not terrible, just okay. But as a consumer, why would I want to play an okay FPS when I can play a bunch of great FPS titles for the same price?"While over 13 million people bought Black Ops last year in the US alone, smashing records, less than just one million people bought Homefront in the US. The consumer voted with their wallet, right?"However, he argued that if THQ had taken a slightly different approach to how the game was sold, it might have stood a better chance of making its money back."What if you could rent Homefront for $4.99 for 24 hours from your console? What if Homefront was only $30 dollars upfront for the single player and if you liked it you could buy the multiplayer for an additional $30?," he suggested."All of the sudden it's not a binary purchase option anymore.""That doesn't mean all games have to go this route," he added. "There's still room for the AAA only, but a lot of titles should try a different method. It's a win-win scenario for everyone involved."Slaczka's argument echo comments made by Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski at GDC earlier this year, where he insisted that "the middle class game is dead".5th Cell's next game, ambitious XBLA shooter Hybrid, is expected to finally launch sometime in 2012, following a delay earlier this year."The shooter genre is really hard because there's such a high bar for quality to compete against. Even harder still is that that bar is defined by nuance and subtlety. It's a genre where something as simple as aiming and shooting take months of work to get right," he told GameInformer."We've spent so much time just working on making sure you can easily and smoothly move your crosshair and ensuring close, medium and long range combat all feel good. We know in this genre people are used to the best, and they expect it and you've got to deliver, it doesn't matter if it's XBLA for $15 or full retail price."

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Petition asks Obama to destroy all copies of Skyrim

November 25th, 2011, 23:58 Posted By: wraggster

A concerned US citizen has petitioned The White House to destroy all copies of Bethesda's acclaimed RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and prosecute anyone caught playing it.As reported by Kotaku, one B Stephenson of Tennessee submitted the following list of demands to The White House's We The People site:We petition the Obama administration to: Immediately Ban the Deadly Videogame Known as 'SkyRim' for The Safety of America's Youths."Whereas videogaming has proven to cause social, ethical and health problems in people of all ages,"Whereas sexual perversion and homosexuality are threatening to destroy the Christian foundations on which this nation was built,"Whereas a new video game has just been created that far exceeds any others in the psychological and spiritual damage it does to teens,"We, the American people, today ask you,

1. To enact an immediate ban on the videogame known as 'SkyRim' produced by Blizzard Entertainment.
2. To seize and destroy all copies already in public hands and erase its presence on the internet.
3. To prosecute the players of 'SkyRim' to the fullest extent of the law.
4. To create a national database of videogame avatars and 'screen names' so that teenagers can be better monitored."

Any petition that manages to attract more than 25,000 signatures from the American public within 30 days of publication will garner an official response from the administration.The Skyrim petition currently boasts ten.

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Now Irish President attacks video games

November 25th, 2011, 23:27 Posted By: wraggster

The new President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has used his first official public engagement to attack video games.
He issued the warning when attending an event at The Ark in Dublin’s Temple Bar – his first presidential appointment since taking office on November 11^th.
The 70 year old told the audience that: “We must encourage all citizens, particularly children, to, as Raymond Williams put it, ’Be the arrow, not the target’.
“It is possible to form the impression that many of today’s children no longer fully appreciate the joy of taking refuge in their own imaginations, preferring to spend their time on computer games, or watching digital television or playing with pre-programmed electronic toys.”
The attack follows an Early Day Motion filed in Westminster this week by long-term games critic Keith Vaz in which he claimed that “there is increasing evidence of a link between perpetrators of violent crime and violent video games users” and called for the BBFC “to take further precautions when allowing a game to be sold”.

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BF3 vs MW3: Which captured the largest TV audience?

November 25th, 2011, 23:23 Posted By: wraggster

Both EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have been battling to win the hearts and minds of the gaming universe all year with extensive TV campaigns.
The chart below demonstrates the cumulative views from males aged between 16 and 34 years old to each campaign. Battlefield 3 struck the first blow with a spot in ITV’s coverage of the FA Cup match between Manchester City and Manchester United on April 16th. It wasn’t until the UEFA Champions League final that MW3 launched its assault. Both campaigns were featured in the final, but it was MW3 that scored a critical hit with an audience three times larger than that of Battlefield 3.
Both campaigns then withdrew before regrouping in October. As the first release, Battlefield 3’s launch campaign began a week earlier than MW3’s and had a greater number of views up until the week of its release on October 28th.
The week prior to the release of MW3 saw Activision dramatically increase its offensive, with 47 per cent of all 16 to 34-year-old men seeing the game’s ads in the week ending Sunday, November 6th.
With both campaigns set to continue in the build up to Christmas, we see no ceasefire in sight.

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Court holds European ISPs can't be forced to filter traffic, users free to fly the jo

November 25th, 2011, 00:35 Posted By: wraggster

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Watson defends Modern Warfare 3

November 24th, 2011, 23:56 Posted By: wraggster

The Labour MP Tom Watson has amended an Early Day Motion by fellow MP Keith Vaz, which called on the BBFC to "take further precautions" on the sale of games, citing Modern Warfare 3's controversial portrayal of a terrorist attack on London.
Watson's amendment to the EDM defended the game.
He "encourages the BBFC to uphold the opinion of the public that whilst the content of video games may be unsettling or upsetting to some, adults should be free to choose their own entertainment in the absence of legal issues or material which raises a risk or harm."
The amendment also notes "the game neither draws upon nor resembles real terrorist attacks on the underground."
"Keith, for many year, has been very critical of adult content in video games and he's homed in particularly on the Call Of Duty franchise," Watson told The Guardian.
"He's tabled a motion, about a week ago, condemning the game. I just amended it to make the point that the game has an 18 classification and that the BBFC said in a statement that it bore no resemblance to the July 7 bombings in London - which is what he refers to in his motion."
"There may be disturbing or unsettling content in that game, but adults should have the choice as to whether they want to play those sorts of games or not."

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Modern Warfare 3 takes number one in Japan

November 24th, 2011, 23:50 Posted By: wraggster

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 entered the Japanese software chart at number one, Andriasang reports.
According to data from Media Create, during the seven-day period ending November 20, the PlayStation 3 version sold 180,372 copies, while the Xbox 360 version charted in seventh place after selling 30,467 copies.
Modern Warfare 3 broke records in Europe and North America, and while the same can't be said of its performance in Japan, it beat out competition from anticipated home-grown releases One Piece Gigant Battle! 2 and Ni no Kuni.
Another notable new entry was THQ's Saints Row: The Third, which charted at number five after selling 36,222 units on PlayStation 3.
The 3DS remained the top-selling hardware, despite both the PlayStation 3 and the PSP selling almost double their totals from the previous week.
The full software chart is listed below. Last week's totals are in parentheses.

• 01. [PS3] Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (Square, 11/11/17): 180,372 - New Entry
• 02. [NDS] One Piece Gigant Battle! 2 (Namco Bandai, 11/11/17): 116,062 - New Entry
• 03. [PS3] Ni no Kuni (Level-5, 11/11/17): 67,032 - New Entry
• 04. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/11/03): 62,318 (499,250)
• 05. [PS3] Saints Row The Third (THQ Japan, 11/11/17): 36,222 - New Entry
• 06. [PSP] Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square Enix, 11/10/27): 30,543 (682,173)
• 07. [360] Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (Square Enix, 11/11/17): 30,467 - New Entry
• 08. [PSP] Hatsune Miku Project Diva Extend (Sega, 11/11/10): 30,042 (214,715)
• 09. [PS3] Sengoku Basara 3 Utage (Capcom, 11/11/10): 25,771 (149,968)
• 10. [PS3] Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (Capcom, 11/11/17): 22,436 - New Entry
• 11. [PSP] Ore no Shi wo Koete Yuke (Sony, 11/11/10): 21,497 (115,582)
• 12. [WII] Pokepark 2 Beyond the World (Pokemon, 11/11/12): 19,246 (55,031)
• 13. [WII] Kirby Wii (Nintendo, 11/10/27): 18,671 (236,039)
• 14. [360] Saints Row The Third (THQ Japan, 11/11/17): 15,380 - New Entry
• 15. [360] Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary (Microsoft, 11/11/17): 13,106 - New Entry
• 16. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker HD (Konami, 11/11/10): 12,721 (52,464)
• 17. [WII] Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 11/10/13): 12,477 (216,255)
• 18. [PSP] Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami, 11/11/03): 9,742 (69,362)
• 19. [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo, 10/07/08): 8,559 (2,022,866)
• 20. [PS3] Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts, 11/11/02): 8,094 (150,265)

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