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Even though it was officially on sale for only the last few days of October that was apparently enough to push Fallout 3 to the top of the best selling PC games for the entire month of October, according to info from the NPD Group. Bethesda Softworks' post apocalypse RPG edged out Electronic Arts' alien evolution sim Spore for the top spot. Number three belongs to Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy by Her Interactive, showing that this series of casual adventure games continues to gain popularity. Far Cry 2 from Ubisoft and Warhammer Online from EA's Mythic Entertainment rounded out the top five:

1. Fallout 3 - Bethesda Softworks
2. Spore - Electronic Arts
3. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy - Her Interactive
4. Far Cry 2 - Ubisoft
5. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning - Mythic/EA
6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
7. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
8. Fallout 3 Collectors Edition - Bethesda Softworks
9. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
10. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Electronic Arts
11. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
12. Civilization IV: Colonization - Firaxis/2K Games
13. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
14. Crysis: Warhead - Crytek/EA
15. Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway - Ubisoft
16. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition - Electronic Arts
17. Dead Space - Electronic Arts
18. Spore Creature Creator - Electronic Arts
19. Civilization IV - Firaxis/2K Games
20. The Sims 2 FreeTime - Electronic Arts

Having Fallout 3 become a sales hit out of the blocks wasn't a shock and this week the NPD Group proved it with their latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US at retail stores. This week's list for games sold in the week ending on Nov. 1 had Bethesda Softworks' RPG claiming the top spot. In fact the game showed up three times; the regular edition, the Collector's Edition at number three and the Amazon.com exclusive Survival Edition at number nine

The list also has a strong debut for EA's RTS title Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 which came in at number two with the Premier Edition of the game squeezing in at number 10. All of these titles pushed out games like Warhammer Online, Dead Space and Civilization IV: Colonization out of the top 10 list. In fact, there's no listing at all for any World of Warcraft game. Now that is a shocker.

1. Fallout 3 - Bethesda Softworks
2. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Electronic Arts
3. Fallout 3 Collector's Edition - Bethesda Softworks
4. Spore - Electronic Arts
5. Far Cry 2 - Ubisoft
6. he Sims 2 Apartment Live - Electronic Arts
7. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy - Her Interactive
8. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
9. Fallout 3 Survival Edition - Bethesda Softworks
10. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition - Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts' alien evolution sim Spore lost its hold on the top spot in the latest top 10 best selling PC games list (created, as always, by the NPD Group). Far Cry 2, the open world shooter from developer Ubisoft, debuted on the new list at number one for the week that ended on Oct. 25 with Spore falling to the number two position.

Dead Space, EA's sci-fi survival horror game, also did well, debuting on the PC list at number six this week. Crysis Warhead and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade dropped off the top 10 list this week.

1. Far Cry 2 - Ubisoft
2. Spore - Electronic Arts
3. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy - Her Interactive
4. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. The Sims 2 Apartment Live - Electronic Arts
6. Dead Space - Electronic Arts
7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
8. Warhammer Online - Mythic/EA
9. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
10. Civilization IV: Colonizaton - Firaxis/2K Games

If you are a hardcore gamer, you most likely horde a lot of game titles. But do you buy games and then never open them? According to a Gamasutra story, a new survey indicates that a whopping 11 percent of you do exactly that. The survey, as conducted by the always handy NPD Group, was commissioned by the Content Delivery and Storage Association and the Entertainment Merchants Association.

The survey polled 562 gamers for their results. The story doesn't indicate why a solid fraction of them keep some games unopened. Perhaps they are the so-called "Collector's Edition" titles that they think might be valuable someday. Perhaps they are just waiting for their PC to be upgraded so they can run under the minimal requirements. We may never know.

This week's release of the top 10 best selling PC games list in the US (offered as always by the NPD Group) may seem familiar as it mostly has the same games (slightly switched around in position) as last week's list. The only major change is that the PC port of Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway has departed the top 10 after its debut last week.

After over a month, EA's Spore continues to top the list and we suspect the game will stay there until the release of Blizzard's expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. In the meantime here is the currently list for the top PC games for the week ending Oct. 18.

1. Spore - Electronic Arts
2. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
3. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy - Her Interactive
4. Warhammer Online - Mythic/Electronic Arts
5. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
6. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
7. Civilization IV: Colonization - Firaxis/2K Games
8. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - Blizzard
10. Crysis Warhead - Crytek/Electronic Arts

If you like following the latest top 10 best selling PC games list every week (as provided by the NPD Group) you know it's always cool to see new games show up on the list. This week's list (for the top selling games for the week ending October 11) has two such debuts. One is for Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy, the latest mainstream adventure-mystery game from Her Interactive. It actually showed up at number two on the list, just behind Spore.

The other debut is for Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, the latest WWII tactical shooter from Gearbox Software and Ubisoft. It made an appearance on the low end of the list at number nine.

1. Spore - Electronic Arts
2. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy - Her Interactive
3. Warhammer Online - Mythic/Electronic Arts
4. Civilization IV: Colonization - Firaxis/2K Games
5. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
6. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
8. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway - Gearbox/Ubisoft
10. Crysis Warhead - Crytek/Electronic Arts

The NPD Group has revealed the top 20 best selling PC games in the US for the entire month of September and it's not a shocker to see that EA's alien evolution sim Spore is right up top at number one. New releases Warhammer Online, Crysis Warhead and Civilization IV: Colonization also did well in their debut months. Perhaps the biggest dissapointment was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. The GSC Game World shooter only came in at number 20 on the list in its first month, perhaps because of a lack of promotion by its publisher Deep Silver.

1. Spore - Electronic Arts
2. Warhammer Online - Mythic/Electronic Arts
3. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
4. Warhammer Online Collector's Edition - Mythic/Electronic Arts
5. Spore Galactic Edition - Electronic Arts
6. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
7. Crysis Warhead - Crytek/Electronic Arts
8. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
9. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
10. Spore Creature Creator - Electronic Arts
11.World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
12.Civilization IV: Colonization - Firaxis/2K Games
13. Warcraft III Battle Chest - Blizzard
14. Civilization IV - Firaxis/2K Games
15. The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff - Electronic Arts
16. Diablo Battle Chest - Blizzard
17. Starcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
18. Hot Wheels: Beat That - Activision
19. Crysis - Crytek/Electronic Arts
20. S.T.A.LK.E.R. Clear Sky - GSC Game World/Deep Silver

The NPD Group's list of the top video game sales in September in the US is mostly for console games but two PC games from Electronic Arts would have fared very well if the NPD Group included their sales numbers among the console games.

Edge Online reports that the alien evolution sim game Spore sold 406,000 copies in September in the US. That would have put the game in third place (behind the Xbox 360 version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Wii Fit) in the NPD Group's top 10 video game sales. The fantasy MMO Warhammer Online sold 274,000 copies in the US in September which places the Mythic Entertainment title in seventh place on the list. Next month is the release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King; that game has the potential to beat out every other console title for November (yes, even Gears of War 2).

Will Wright's alien evolution sim Spore seems to be holding its own against the rest of the PC games out there in terms of sales. Despite mixed reviews and protests against its DRM set-up the game remains atop the top 10 best selling games list as monitored and revealed by the NPD Group. The latest list, which is for the week ending Oct. 4, has no new games debuting on the charts. Lego Batman has fallen out of the top 10 list while the $9.99 Spore Creature Creator reappears in the number 10 spot.

1. Spore - Electronic Arts
2. Warhammer Online - Mythic/Electronic Arts
3. Civilization IV: Colonization - 2K Games
4. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
5. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
6. Crysis Warhead - Crytek/Electronic Arts
7. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
8. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
9. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
10. Spore Creature Creator - Electronic Arts

Fall is truly here. The Cubs didn't make it to the World Series again and new PC games make the NPD Group's top 10 best selling PC games list interesting to check out again. NPD sent out their latest list for the week ending Sept. 27 and Electronic Arts' Spore finds itself back on top this week after falling to second place last week because of the launch of Warhammer Online

Two new games showed up on the list; 2K Games' Civilization IV: Colonization made a solid debut at number 3 while Warner Bros. Interactive's Lego Batman came in at number nine. It replaces S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky who slips off the top 10 list after just one week.

1. Spore - Electronic Arts
2. Warhammer Online - Mythic/Electronic Arts
3. Civilization IV: Colonization - 2K Games
4. Crysis Warhead - Crytek/Electronic Arts
5. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
6. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
7. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
8. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
9. Lego Batman - Traveller's Tales/Warner Bros. Interactive
10. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard