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The NPD Group's latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in retail stores is, well, boring with little change from the previous week's list. The list below is for the week that ended on May 30. However we expect the next week to see The Sims 3 on top of the list in its debut week:

1. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
3. Spore - Electronic Arts
4. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
6. Empire: Total War - Creative Assembly/Sega
7. Reel Deal Slots Adventure - Phantom EFX
8. Civilization IV: The Complete Edition - Firaxis/2K Games
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
10. Left 4 Dead - Valve

There's no stopping the Fallout franchise on the PC these days. For the past two weeks Interplay's Fallout Trilogy collection (featuring Fallout 1 and 2 plus Fallout Tactics) has appeared in the top 10 best selling PC games list (compiled, as always, by the NPD Group). This week the game remains on the list for a third straight week (at number 8) and Bethesda Softworks' revival, Fallout 3, reappears at number nine on the list.

Other than that the list is rather dull this week with no all new games appearing for the week that ended May 16:
1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
3. Empire: Total War - Creative Assembly/Sega
4. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. Left 4 Dead - Valve
6. Spore - Electronic Arts
7. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
8. Fallout Trilogy - Interplay
9. Fallout 3 - Bethesda Softworks
10. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts

There's not much new to report in this week's latest top 10 best selling PC game list from the always reliable NPD Group. For the week that ended April 25 it was mostly just games that were previously on the list shifting their positions around. No new or returning games showed up on this week's list and no game departed from last week's list.

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
3. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
4. Left 4 Dead - Valve
5. Empire: Total War - Sega
6. Demigod - Gas Powered Games/Stardock
7. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor - Relic/THQ
8. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. Spore - Electronic Arts
10. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts

Relic and THQ's Company of Heroes WWII RTS series remains a popular one for PC gamers. The series now has a new installment, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, and that game made a strong debut at number 3 on the NPD Group's latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games sold in US retail stores.

The list has Blizzard's MMO expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King on top once again for the week ending April 11. A couple of other games have made return appearances in the top 10 list as well:

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
3. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor - Relic/THQ
4. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. Empire: Total War - The Creative Assembly/Sega
6. Left 4 Dead - Valve
7. StarCraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
8. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
9. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
10. Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake - Her Interactive

The NPD Group has just released their list of the top 20 best selling PC games in US retail stores for the month of March and it's not much of a shock to see Empire: Total War at the top of the list. The historical RTS game from The Creative Assembly and Sega was als on top of NPD's weekly top 10 list for most of the last month.

The rest of the list has a lot of familiar names (Blizzard, Sims, etc) with just a few exceptions:

1. Empire: Total War - Creative Assembly/Sega
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
4. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II - Relic-THQ
5. World Of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
6. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
7. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
8. Spore - Electronic Arts
9. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
10. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst - Big Fish Games
11. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Electronic Arts
12. StarCraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
13. Fallout 3 - Bethesda Softworks
14. Civilization IV - Firaxis-2K Games
15. Empire: Total War - Special Forces Edition - Creative Assembly-Sega
16. The Sims 2 Pets - Electronic Arts
17. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning - Mythic/EA
18. The Sims 2 University - Electronic Arts
19. Call Of Duty: World At War - Activision
20. Diablo Battle Chest - Blizzard.

After three weeks of seeing Empire: Total War on top of the NPD Group's top 10 best selling PC games in US retail stores, the mighty 800 pound Blizzard gorilla regained the top spot for the latest NPD list. For the week that ended March 28, the MMO expansion World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King regained the number one position from the The Creative Assembly-Sega. historical RTS title. That game landed at the number two position this week.

Surprisingly, no new games appeared on the NPD list this week, despite the fact that a number of major new titles (Stormrise, Wheelman, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Battleforge and The Last Remnant) shipped to stores for the PC during the week of March 28. Oddly enough, Battleforge seems to be doing much better as a downloadable title. IGN's official blog has the RTS game from Phenomic and EA as the number one best selling game for its release week on its Direct2Drive site and at number two for the week ending April 4.

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
2. Empire: Total War - The Creative Assembly/Sega
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
4. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - THQ
6. Spore - Electronic Arts
7.Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst - Big Fish Games
8. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
10. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - Gearbox/Ubisoft

Apparently folks like fighting the American Revolution over and over again. The latest list of the NPD Group's top 10 best selling PC games in US retail stores shows Empire: Total War atop the list for the third week in a row. The historical RTS game from The Creative Assembly and Sega is number one again for the week that ended on March 21

Little has changed compare to last week's list but that will certainly not be the the case next week. The NPD Group will likely show one or more new games that were released in a flood of new titles.during the last full week of March

1. Empire: Total War - The Creative Assembly/Sega
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
4. Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - THQ
5. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
6. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
7.The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
8. Spore - Electronic Arts
9. Civilization IV - Firaxis/2K Games
10. Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst - Big Fish Games

With February well behind us, the NPD Group has now issued the latest list of the top 20 best selling PC games in US retail stores for the shortest month of the year. As you compare the list with January's top 20 you will see a lot of familiar names with F.E.A.R. 2 and Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II being the only major new games to appear on the list.

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
3. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Relic/THQ
4. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
5. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - Monolith/Warner Bros. Interactive
6. Spore - Electronic Arts
7. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
8. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
9. Fallout 3- Bethesda Softworks
10. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
11. Call Of Duty: World At War - Activision
12. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Electronic Arts
13. Left 4 Dead - EA/Valve
14. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
15. Civilization IV - Firaxis/2K Games
16. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff - Electronic Arts
17. StarCraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
18. Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack - Electronic Arts
19. Diablo Battle Chest - Blizzard.
20. The Sims 2 Pets - Electronic Arts

Relic's latest RTS game is showing signs that not only it is selling well it will continue to sell well. The sci-fi themed game Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II has stayed on top of the latest list of the best selling retail PC games in the US, this time for the week ending Feb. 28.

This is the second week that the game from publisher THQ has been number one on the charts, keeping Blizzard's fantasy MMO expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the the Lich King at number two. F.E.A.R 2 and Crysis Warhead depart this list this week with World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and the ultra-cheap The Sims Carnival: Snap City replacing them.

1. Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - THQ
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
4. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
5. World of Warcraft - Blizzard
6. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
7.Spore - Electronic Arts
8. The Sims Carnival: Snap City - Electronic Arts
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
10. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - Blizzard

With all of the issues with THQ's financial numbers lately, the publisher got some good news today via the NPD Group's latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in US retail stores. The latest list for the week ending Feb. 21 had the long awaited RTS sequel Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II taking the number one spot in its debut week on the charts.

The game from developer Relic displaced Blizzard's MMO expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, at least for this week's from that number one sport. F.E.A.R. 2, which debuted last week at number two, went down to the eighth position this week and Crytek's Crysis Warhead re-entered the list at number 10. Fallout 3 and Call of Duty: World at War left the top 10 list this week.

1. Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - THQ
2. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Blizzard
3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
4. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
5. Spore - Electronic Arts
6. World of Warcraft Battle Chest - Blizzard
7.World of Warcraft - Blizzard
8. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - Monolith/Warner Bros Interactive
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
10. Crysis Warhead - Crytek/EA