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As has been shown in recent surveys, PC gaming is still moving more into digital downloads than games being sold in boxes in retail stores. However the NPD Group still looks at PC games sold in brick-and-mortar locations and they have now released the top 20 PC games sold in the US in retail stores.

The top four places belong to The Sims 3 and Star Trek Online. In fact the small expansion pack for The Sims 3, High-End Loft Stuff, was the number one best selling PC game last month. Star Trek Online took over the number two and number four (for the Collector's Edition) spots, with the main Sims 3 game in at number three.

It's interesting to compare this list with, say, the Steam weekly top 10 list. There's no Sims 3 game listed on Steam's best selling game list while Modern Warfare 2, ranked in the top five on Steam's list for some time, only comes in at number 11 on NPD's list.

You can check out the full top 20 list after the break:

[Via GamePro]

A long while back, we were treated to Katy Perry singing one of her hit songs in Simlish. Now it's pop singer Pixie Lott's turn to give one of her hits the Simlish treatment. This video takes a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of 'Mama Do' in Simlish for an upcoming Sims 3 music video, and she gets a crash course in learning a virtual foreign language. She should have tried Rosetta Stone.

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The Sims is one of the best-selling game series in history, and the best-selling PC franchise, with over 100 million units shipped worldwide for the games and expansions. Both the first and second entries in the franchise have exceeded sales records months and even years after their original releases. Now, Electronic Arts has revisited the franchise again with Sims 3, five years after the release of the last numbered title. Thanks to the incredible success of the previous games, it would have been easy to simply reiterate the gameplay into a new engine and call it at that. But Sims 3 does not rest on the laurels of its predecessors, and improves The Sims in ways that make the first two games look dated and obtuse. It is an excellent entry into the series, and will undoubtedly serve as a benchmark for accessible, entertaining simulation games for a long time to come.

This narrated video for The Sims 3 demonstrates the movie making tool players will have at their disposal. The Sims 3 is currently expected to release this summer.

Download HD The Sims 3 Movie Tool Video (59 MB)
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Ah, spring. It's the season for renewal where trees grow back their leaves, grass pops back up out of the ground and there's a general sense of optimism in the air (except for Cubs fans, but that's a completely different story). Oddly enough in past years the PC game industry has used the spring quarter (April-June) to take something of a break. In 2008 only one major PC game, Age of Conan, was released during the spring quarter.

That's not the case for the 2009 spring season, however. There are quite a few major titles coming out for our platform in the next three months. So much so, in fact, that we were actually able to pick 10 games that we are most looking forward to playing. And believe it or not it was a hard list to decide on; we left out quite a few games that also look promising but in our view didn't look quite as good as the 10 games on this list. As always keep in mind that release dates for games can, and ususally do, change so it's very possible that one or more of these titles may not make their spring release dates.

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This narrated video for The Sims 3 discusses some of the in-depth features the game will have in creating different Sim characters. In addition to customizing the look and physical characteristics of each sim, players will be able to put in specific personality traits that will define how your sim interacts with the world. Best of all, sims will be able to take care of their own basic needs, leaving players free to take care of other game aspects. Players can even earn an object called a Steel Bladder, so that their sims will never need the bathroom again.

Download HD The Sims 3 'Create-a-Sim' Video (55 MB)
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The developers of the Sims 3 lay out everything that makes the upcoming sequel great and unique. Sims will inhabit a bigger world than ever before, so players won't have to feel as though their sim families need to be trapped in the same old house. The wildly popular Sims franchise and its expansions always end up on the top-ten best selling charts.

Download HD "What is the Sims 3?" Video (615 MB)

Get ready for the first in a long, long line of Sims 3 games from Electronic Arts. The publisher just announced that you can expect the next generation of people sim game to ship to stores on February 20, 2009. The new game will allow the Sims to explore their surrounding neighborhood instead of being stuck inside their home as well as lots of customization features for each Sims.

Along with a release date, EA just announced a Collector's Edition of the game which will include "additional collectible The Sims merchandise and a bonus in-game Italian-Style Sports Car unavailable elsewhere." People who pre-order the Collector's Edition will get access to yet another in-game vintage car and a poster that showed off the Sims 3 neighborhood.