We’re big on Collector’s Edition and Limited Edition games, we love the extra goodies you get, like art books and soundtracks. The latest installment in the Total War Series, Napoleon Total War, is getting an Imperial Edition, which will include a free DLC with 10 exclusive units, an art book, making of DVD and some extra goodies which haven’t yet been announced. Nor has the price, but expect the usual +$10 above the general retail copy.

Not to be outdone by Valve — which it has, anyways — EA is having their own Black Friday digital download deals, where several high profile games have received a 30% price cut. Among those are Mass Effect, which retails for only $14 now, and Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box for $21.

Other games include Dead Space ($20), The Sims 3 ($35) and Need For Speed Undercover ($7).

Check out the EA Store for full list of games.

Modern Warfare 2 is still riding the massive wave of success — after selling over 10 million copies — and according to analyst Ben Schachter, it should be possible in 2010 as well, who expects DLCs of the game to reach $140 million, minus of course the cut Activision has to pay to Microsoft and Sony.

He bases his assumption on the fact that every second CoD: World at War owner bought DLC, which means that the roughly 10 million MW2 owner will buy 5 million copies of DLC.

Steam is no stranger to great deals, especially during the weekends. Now Valve has revealed the ultimate deals, coinciding with Black Friday. For instance, you can get every single THQ game for $50, and that includes Company of Heroes, Frontlines Fuel of War, Red Faction, STALKER, Saints Row 2, Titan Quest, Dawn of War and Dawn of War 2, among others.

Serious, you’re saving $330. This is probably the greatest deal in gaming history. The other deals include Far Cry 2 for $10, Dragon Age: Origins for $37, Batman Arkham Asylum for $25, and a lot more.

While inherently biased, seeing that these numbers come from Nintendo, the company claims that 80% of women and girls prefer to play on the Wii, while the Xbox 360 and PS3 are left with 11% and 9%, respectively. However, Nintendo’s numbers do not take in account for PC female gamers, which is quite substantial as well, especially considering the casual game market (and The Sims).

The Battlefield: Bad Company PS3 beta is well under way, and the PC beta was scheduled to later this year. However, DICE has announced that the PC beta will be pushed back to “early next year”, due to further work on the beta and increasing the player count after the “success of the PS3 beta”.

In addition, DICE confirmed that Bad Company 2 on the PC will support DirectX 9, 10 and 11, and will feature 32 player multiplayer matches with dedicated and private servers available and with clan support as well.

It’s not often that you see fully fledged single player RPGs, especially great ones, ones that bring back old memories of Diablo, Baldur’s Gate and Dungeon Siege. It’s safe to say, as you probably know, Dragon Age: Origins brings back those memories. It’s a deep and satisfying RPG that should rock the world out of RPG fans, but it’s not without flaws.

Dragon Age, quite correctly referred to as the spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate, is set in the fictional realm of Ferelden, where your character is part of a massive battle between demons that rise from under the ground and plan to take over the lands (what else are they gonna do?), and everyone else — which of course, includes you. You’ll start off by creating your character, pick between human, elf or dwarf, and pick a class: warrior, mage, or rogue. You can customize your character down to the smallest details, and each of the races has a different story, and can change the game quite a lot, depending on just which race and class you pick. Read the rest of our review

Game review scores have always had a great impact on the sales of games — so it the common conception. However, according to analyst Doug Creutz, game ratings are the least important factor when gamers decide what game to buy. Creutz says,

“We believe that while Metacritic scores may be correlated to game quality and word of mouth, and thus somewhat predictive of title performance, they are unlikely in and of themselves to drive or undermine the success of a game.”

He cites the most important factors begin “genre”, as FPS players will unlikely buy an RPG, no matter how high review scores it gets. However, we still believe that game scores matter, if you’re into FPS, there’s no way you’re gonna pick something like Uwe Boll’s Tunnel Rats — our review gave it a 0/10. Yep, zero.

Well, this is no surprise at all, considering that anything containing the worlds “Call of Duty” will climb to the top of the charts anywhere. The iPhone based Call of Duty game, called Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, priced at $10, has climbed to the top of the sales chart for the iPhone, outselling Bejeweled 2, which held the previous top spot.

For a game that revolved around music, having enough quality tracks is always important, and Rock Band fans will be glad to hear that the game has now reached 1,000 songs in its database. Harmonix and MTV announced that the thousand tracks come from almost 400 bands. However, all those tracks are of course not included in Rock Band, you have to buy them separately. That goes without saying.