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Fri Jun 19th 12:25 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 4. Football Manager 2009 (Sega), 5. Mass Effect (EA Games). The PC version of Ghostbusters only manages a fifth place finish in North America this week, as multiple versions of The Sims 3 and World...
Tue Jun 16th 03:33 PM GMT - November 2008's World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King from Blizzard topped the charts in May, followed by April 2008's The Sims 2 Double Deluxe from EA Maxis, and another Blizzard title, World Of Warcraft Battle Chest. The three games held the top...Tue Jun 16th 12:24 PM GMT - The second place went to Activision-owned developer Blizzard, based on the incredible sales success of its World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. It was also aided by its sterling reputation scores, which eclipsed every other developer on the list.... 
Fri Jun 12th 12:23 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 4. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 5. The Sims 2: Double Deluxe (EA Games). Japan: 1. The Sims 3 -- Collector's Edition (EA Games), 2. Ragnarok Online RJC2009 Vol. 1: Win the Victory (E Frontier), 3....
Fri Jun 5th 03:34 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 3. The Sims 2: Double Deluxe (EA Games), 4. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 5. Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt (Bethesda). Japan: 1. The Sims 3 -- Collector's Edition (EA Games), 2....
Fri May 15th 12:18 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 4. Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II (THQ), 5. Spore (EA Games). World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King spends another week at the top of the PC sales charts in North America this week,...Thu May 14th 10:57 PM GMT - Gas Powered Games and Stardock's strategy/RPG hybrid Demigod hit number seven for its debut, right below Valve's continual seller Left 4 Dead. 1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard Entertainment) |
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Fri May 1st 12:11 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Left 4 Dead continue to fight it out for PC chart supremacy in the United States. Left 4 Dead surrenders the top spot to Lich King this week, as Fallout 3, The Sims 2: Double Deluxe, and The Elder Scrolls...
Mon Apr 27th 11:25 PM GMT - Much of the rest of the list was similar to last week, including the traditionally-reigning World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and The Sims 2 Double Deluxe from Blizzard and EA Maxis. The latter company's Spore also snuck back on to the chart at...
Fri Apr 24th 12:24 PM GMT - Left 4 Dead pushes past last week's chart champion World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to capture the top spot in this week's North American PC software sales rankings. Demigod drops out of chart range after spending only one week in the top five...
Fri May 1st 12:11 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Left 4 Dead continue to fight it out for PC chart supremacy in the United States. Left 4 Dead surrenders the top spot to Lich King this week, as Fallout 3, The Sims 2: Double Deluxe, and The Elder Scrolls...
Mon Apr 27th 11:25 PM GMT - Much of the rest of the list was similar to last week, including the traditionally-reigning World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and The Sims 2 Double Deluxe from Blizzard and EA Maxis. The latter company's Spore also snuck back on to the chart at...
Fri Apr 24th 12:24 PM GMT - Left 4 Dead pushes past last week's chart champion World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to capture the top spot in this week's North American PC software sales rankings. Demigod drops out of chart range after spending only one week in the top five...Thu Apr 23rd 12:38 AM GMT - WoW's Wrath of the Lich King has a quest called The Art of Persuasion. It's clear looking at the quest details the designer is well aware of the concept of extraordinary rendition, where detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured by other...
Fri Apr 10th 06:39 PM GMT - by Chris Remo Blizzard Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks were the big winners at this week's MI6 Awards for game marketing, with the former nabbing Outstanding Overall Marketing Campaign (Gold) for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,...
Fri Apr 10th 12:25 PM GMT - A price-dropped Mirror's Edge finishes first among US PC software titles, as World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King moves up to take second. THQ's Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor debuts at the top of the charts in the UK, meanwhile,...
Fri Apr 3rd 01:25 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard). Amazon-sponsored discounts in price play a big role in this week's North American PC sales numbers. Airport Mania: First Flight leads weekly sales after temporarily dropping to 99 cents earlier this...
Wed Apr 1st 02:31 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King* (PC/Mac) Nintendo's Wii Fit bundle was the best-selling software release in the region in 2008, moving over 373000 units at an average price of $90 (AU$130). In fact, the only games not published by Nintendo...
Fri Mar 27th 08:14 PM GMT - Wrath of the Lich King gameplay director Jeffrey Kaplan explained how this evolves from Blizzard's concept of 'directed gameplay'. "Directed gameplay is a phrase we use at Blizzard to represent the idea of leading a player to a fun experience....
Fri Mar 27th 03:28 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King returns to the top spot in North American PC software sales this week, beating out last week's champion title Empire: Total War. Square Enix's PC port of the console RPG The Last Remnant also sees strong sales...
Fri Mar 13th 12:19 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard). Sega's real-time strategy sequel Empire: Total War tops Amazon's PC sales charts in North America and Europe in its first week of release, edging out competition from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the...
Fri Apr 10th 06:39 PM GMT - by Chris Remo Blizzard Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks were the big winners at this week's MI6 Awards for game marketing, with the former nabbing Outstanding Overall Marketing Campaign (Gold) for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,...
Fri Apr 10th 12:25 PM GMT - A price-dropped Mirror's Edge finishes first among US PC software titles, as World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King moves up to take second. THQ's Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor debuts at the top of the charts in the UK, meanwhile,...
Fri Apr 3rd 01:25 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard). Amazon-sponsored discounts in price play a big role in this week's North American PC sales numbers. Airport Mania: First Flight leads weekly sales after temporarily dropping to 99 cents earlier this...
Wed Apr 1st 02:31 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King* (PC/Mac) Nintendo's Wii Fit bundle was the best-selling software release in the region in 2008, moving over 373000 units at an average price of $90 (AU$130). In fact, the only games not published by Nintendo...
Fri Mar 27th 08:14 PM GMT - Wrath of the Lich King gameplay director Jeffrey Kaplan explained how this evolves from Blizzard's concept of 'directed gameplay'. "Directed gameplay is a phrase we use at Blizzard to represent the idea of leading a player to a fun experience....
Fri Mar 27th 03:28 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King returns to the top spot in North American PC software sales this week, beating out last week's champion title Empire: Total War. Square Enix's PC port of the console RPG The Last Remnant also sees strong sales...
Fri Mar 13th 12:19 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard). Sega's real-time strategy sequel Empire: Total War tops Amazon's PC sales charts in North America and Europe in its first week of release, edging out competition from World of Warcraft: Wrath of the...Fri Feb 27th 01:21 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 5. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar). Last week's best-selling PC title Galactic Civilizations II: Game of the Year Edition disappears from the US top five this week, replaced by World of Warcraft:...
Fri Feb 20th 02:10 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard). The Game of the Year Edition of Galactic Civilizations II and Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II arrive this week to upset the usually stagnant North American PC sales charts, finishing at first and...
Fri Feb 13th 02:31 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 4. The Sims 2: Double Deluxe (EA Games), 5. Spore (EA Games). FEAR 2: Project Origin debuts as this...
Fri Feb 6th 02:20 PM GMT - Wrath of the Lich King again tops PC platform sales at Amazon this week, beating out competition from the returning Game of the Year Edition of The Elder...
Fri Jan 30th 01:57 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 2. Left 4 Dead (EA Games), 3. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 4. World of Goo (Brighter Minds), 5....
Fri Jan 23rd 02:16 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 3. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- Game of the Year Edition (2K Games), 5....
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Mon Jan 19th 03:39 PM GMT - Analyst firm The NPD Group says that PC game sales dropped for US retailers dropped to $701 million in 2008, down by 14 percent compared to the previous...
Fri Jan 16th 09:12 PM GMT - For the first time in 2008, the EMA nominated only one title in the "PC Game of the Year" category: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King....
Fri Jan 16th 01:53 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 3. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 4. Left 4 Dead (EA Games), 5. Hoyle Card Games 2009 (Encore). Japan: 1....
Fri Jan 9th 02:22 PM GMT - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King takes the top spot in its stead, while the World of Warcraft Battle Chest compilation finishes third....
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Wed Dec 24th 02:13 PM GMT - Meanwhile, Blizzard's launch of Wrath of the Lich King has completely reinvigorated the World of Warcraft community. More than simply 'ten more levels',...
Fri Dec 19th 02:23 PM GMT - Spore moves up to take the top spot, with World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King settling for second place. 2D Boy's acclaimed puzzler World of Goo also...
Thu Dec 11th 04:03 PM GMT - Pardo was instrumental in creating this phenomenon, and with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and a massively successful BlizzCon, 2008 continues to be...
Thu Dec 11th 02:44 PM GMT - Pardo was instrumental in creating this phenomenon, and with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and a massively successful BlizzCon, 2008 continues to be...
Wed Nov 26th 04:28 PM GMT - LittleBigPlanet, World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King, and Fallout 3 (Xbox 360), among other titles, reached the ELSPA's Silver Status with some...
Fri Nov 21st 02:11 PM GMT - This week's charts, with data taken from November 20th, 2008, find Call of Duty: World at War and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King again topping...
Thu Nov 20th 02:53 PM GMT - The second World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours -- making it the fastest-selling PC game of...
Tue Nov 18th 02:30 PM GMT - At number two, expansion pack World of WarCraft: Wrath of the Lich King became the fastest selling PC title of all time, beating the record set by Eidos’...
Fri Nov 14th 02:04 PM GMT - This week's charts, with data taken from November 13th, 2008, find the recently released World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King dominating sales across...
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Tue Oct 28th 05:31 PM GMT - This milestone was reached as Blizzard nears the completion of its beta test period for Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft’s second expansion....
Fri Oct 17th 01:13 PM GMT - The analyst pegs EA, Activision and Ubisoft as the likely leaders, expecting EA's Rock Band 2 and Left 4 Dead; Activision Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King...
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Mon Oct 13th 02:12 PM GMT - According to coverage from MMO news site WarCry, WoW production director J. Allen Brack was asked about a button found in the Wrath of the Lich King beta's...
Fri Oct 3rd 05:50 PM GMT - The analyst believes Activision can be expected to "thrive" over the holiday season, in which Wrath of the Lich King, Guitar Hero World Tour and Call of...
Mon Sep 22nd 01:18 PM GMT - McKenzie's looking forward to strong sales of Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King, and Bartel says Spore saw a solid opening in its stores as well....
Fri Sep 19th 01:41 PM GMT - This week's charts, with data taken from September 18th, 2008, find the World of Warcraft expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King leading sales among all...
Mon Sep 15th 05:22 PM GMT - Blizzard says its upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of The Lich King, will launch on November 13th, beginning in North America, Europe,...
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Fri Jul 25th 02:42 PM GMT - Forthcoming WoW expansion Wrath of the Lich King is due in the second half of the year. Blizzard did manage to bring in 1.8 million new subscribers since...
Wed May 14th 06:05 PM GMT - Its next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, is expected to be released in the second half of this year. Overall, Vivendi -- which also oversees Universal...
Tue May 13th 01:23 PM GMT - In his current position, Rob continues to oversee all aspects of game design for World of Warcraft and its upcoming second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King...
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Thu Dec 13th 03:00 PM GMT - Following speculation surrounding job advertisements on Blizzard's website, a community administrator has confirmed on the World of Warcraft forums that the...