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War Everywhere in March’s 20 Best-Selling Retail PC Games

Posted 04/17/09 at 02:55:48 AM  by Nathan Grayson

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Nine of last month’s 20 best-selling PC games’ titles contain the word “war” in some way or another, including colonial chart-topper Empire: Total War. Special honors go to Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II for having “war” in its title twice. Videogames encouraging violence? No way.
 
Here’s the entire, blood-soaked chart for your viewing pleasure:

  1. Empire: Total War / Creative Assembly / $48
  2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King / Blizzard / $38
  3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $19
  4. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II / Relic / $48
  5. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest / Blizzard / $38
  6. World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $20
  7. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Exp. Pack / EA Maxis / $19
  8. Spore / EA Maxis / $49
  9. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack / Blizzard / $29
  10. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst / Big Fish Games / $20
  11. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 / EA LA / $28
  12. StarCraft Battle Chest / Blizzard / $20
  13. Fallout 3 / Bethesda / $49
  14. Civilization IV / Firaxis / $21 (Average)
  15. Empire: Total War - Special Forces Edition / Creative Assembly / $70
  16. The Sims 2 Pets Exp. Pack / EA Maxis / $19
  17. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning / EA Mythic / $29
  18. The Sims 2 University Exp. Pack / EA Maxis / $19
  19. Call Of Duty: World At War / Treyarch / $50
  20. Diablo Battle Chest / Blizzard / $36

With the way mainstream headlines have been going lately, we can’t imagine that “Country X Delcares War on Country Y, Videogames to Blame” is far off.
 
So, what’d you buy last month?

COMMENTS:8
TAGS: gaming, Software, news, world of warcraft, call of duty, Dawn of War II, NPD Group, Best-Selling PC Games, Empire: Total War
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avatarWhere is my new L4D

Submitted by Muerte on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 11:22am

Where is my new L4D DLC!!!!   Damnit its the only fps game worth playing right now but it needs more VS maps!!!

 

Can't wait for Surival mode.

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avatarI bought.......

Submitted by K0BALT on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 6:45pm

I bought Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X last month. I'm a fan of it. Depends if you're into that kind of game or not. I'm really looking forward to: Ghostbusters, Wolfenstein and Modern Warfare 2 for the rest of this year....so far.

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avatar$20 for starcraft...STILL!?

Submitted by bingojubes on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 3:29pm

dang that should have made itself into the bargain bin years ago!

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avatartwo problems

Submitted by Gailim on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 8:18am

1. this is the NPD, thier numbers are completely worthless

2. most of the "war" titles are multiple versions of the same game. 4 of them are just WoW, two are Empire total war. that's 6 out of the 9 bieng only two games

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avatarThe Sims?

Submitted by AntiHero on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 7:18am

Can be acquired for free? Adunno, my fiancee has all of the sims 2 expansions */shrug* I got L4D as a gift in early march for my birthday, and i bought Far Cry 2. Funny that all of WoW's expansions are selling. I can't believe CoD5 is doing as well as it is, Treyarch ruins every game they get in contact with.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

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avatarWhat the hell is game number

Submitted by neo1piv14 on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 7:16am

What the hell is game number 10? Is it some like Nancy Drew knock off? I think you can really see which game companies have their shit together by just looking at how many of the top 20 sellers are followed by "/Blizzard." When Starcraft and Diablo are still on a list, you know they've got their stuff together. 

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avatarWho WHO?

Submitted by Seana7a7 on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 4:10am

Why are people still buying the Sims i can't take it anymore AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH(Running around on fire and then jumping off a bridge) . God Damn you Will Wright and EA for producing pure evil, hopefully when he goes to hell the devil will forcefully stuff a copy of the sims up his backside ever morning.

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avatarI bought Sins of a Solar

Submitted by strykyr on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 2:03am

I bought Sins of a Solar Empire and the Entrenchment expansion and Mass Effect within the last 60 days.  Already beat Mass Effect (I chose the Human Female for my porn) and paid for Digital DLs of SoaSE and Entrenchment for a friend so I had someone to play with.

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