The somewhat we–received MMO Aion, NCSofts latest in a long line of MMOs, has sold very well, despite the fact that it’s the first NCSoft MMO in a while to have a paid subscription service. The top 10 best selling PC games, according to NDP:
- Aion
- The Sims 3
- Champions Online
- World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
- Aion Collector’s Ed
- Mumbo Jumbo Assortment
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
- World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
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- World Of Warcraft
Gamers in the UK unhappy with the current white chassis of the Nintendo Wii will be happy to hear that a limited edition black version will be hitting store shelves on November 6th. As for the rest of Europe, you’ll be getting it on November 20th.
This limited edition comes with a black Wiimote, Nunchuk and Motion Plus. If you want the fancy black Classic Controller Pro, you’re going to have to buy that separately.
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We already know that Super Street Fighter IV is on its way but we don’t know much about the game’s story line. Today, Capcom‘s Seth Killian sat down with Kotaku to speak about the game’s final boss; Seth.
If you’re played Street Fighter IV on the harder difficulties you’ll know that Seth is no walk in the park, utilizing just about every cheap move in the book. Well, according to Mr. Killian, the Seth in Super Street Fighter IV “will be even cheaper and more irritating”.
Luckily, all of the new characters will be unlocked out of the box so you won’t be fighting Seth over and over again like in the previous title.
In early September we were notified that Alpha Unit’s Monster Finder was to be the first ever Nintendo DSi exclusive title on the market. However, there was no word on when, if ever, the game would be hitting North American Shelves.
However, a recent listing on GameFly’s website has let us know that Konami will be publishing the game in January 2010. Is this to be believed? Well, GameFly is a pretty credible source but until Konami, or anyone involved, says something there
Famitsu, one of the premiere Japanese gaming magazines, has been known to be extremely critical when they review various titles. In fact, up until now they have not awarded an Xbox 360 game with a perfect score.
Today, it was made known that the lucky Xbox 360 title that will be getting a perfect score from Famitsu is none other than Sega‘s Bayonetta.
Haven’t played Bayonetta yet? Well, that’s no surprise as it doesn’t hit North American shelves until January 2010.
Earlier today we let you know that a petition for dedicated Modern Warfare 2 servers has garnered over 100,000 signatures. Now, Infinity Ward’s Jason West and Vince Zampella has come forth to comment on the petition and frankly, they aren’t having.
Apparently, instead of catering to the “modders and tuners” they are focusing on the player experience and trying to make it legit as possible. In fact, the two have said that they have received a large amount of complaints regarding cheating in Call of Duty 4 and the inability to find a server without a cheater.
So petitioners, blame it on the cheaters for no dedicated servers.
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Realtime Worlds has commenced closed beta testing for APB, the upcoming MMO crime game, as the first batch of invites have been sent out to the lucky ones. There’s no details on what the beta includes, but we suspect it’ll test a wide variety of game mechanics — that’s what betas are for, anyways.
If you haven’t received an invite, don’t worry, as you can still apply for the beta here.
Game analyst Michael Pachter thinks that Borderlands will be trumped by fellow blockbusters this holiday season, and is effectively “sent to die”, according to Pachter. When asked on Bonus Round what he thinks of the game and its release, Pachter noted,
“Sent to die. I think “Borderlands” is the definition of a game that should have had its own window and not be up against all this stuff. It’s absolutely the same audience. I don’t think it’s as much an RPG as they would like us to believe. If it’s an RPG, “Dragon Age” is going to kick its butt; and if it’s a shooter, “Call of Duty” or something else is going to kick its butt.”
Borderlands hits the stores today.
People are really upset about Modern Warfare 2′s lack of dedicated servers. How upset? We’ll, an online petition has attracted over 100,000 signatures — in fact, it’s at almost 110,000 right now.
PC gamers are showing their disappointment, where the biggest game of the year, and the biggest multiplayer experience of the year, will be without dedicated servers, and will only feature the system that’s used on consoles.
You can view (and sign) the petition here.
A few months ago the Versus Mode DLC pack was released for Resident Evil 5 which added nothing more than new multiplayer game modes which had players pitting themselves against zombies and eachother. After said DLC was released gamers everywhere whined about how Capcom was charging for a feature that “should have” been included in the original game.
Lucky for them, Xbox Live is cutting the price of the pack to 240 Microsoft Points from 400 Micrsoft Points as their latest Deal of the Week.
Still don’t want to pay for new game modes? Well, that’s up to you.
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