Best Selling PC Games of 2008

World of Warcraft has 5 titles in the top 13! wow... domination.
This is a list of the top 20 best selling PC games of 2008:

1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
2. Spore
3. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
4. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
5. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning
6. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
8. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Exp Pk Collector's Ed
9. Fallout 3
10. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
11. Call Of Duty: World At War
12. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
13. World Of Warcraft
14. Sins Of A Solar Empire
15. Warcraft III Battle Chest
16. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
17. Crysis
18. Left 4 Dead
19. Diablo Battle Chest
20. The Orange Box

Release Dates

This list should help with your Christmas shopping or wish list making:

November
November 18th:
- Bolt - a Disney platformer based on the major motion picture.
- CSI:NY The Game - Ubisoft's Adventure game based on the TV series.
- Dynasty Warriors 6 - Action game from KOEI.
- Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods - Aspyr's new action rpg.
- Legendary - Gamecock Media Group's new shooter.
- LOTR Online: The Mines of Moria - Expansion for Turbine's Lord of the Rings MMORPG.
- Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir - Atari's rpg expansion.
- Tomb Raider Underworld - Eidos Interactive's newest iteration of its classic action series.
- Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 - Sega's Critically Acclaimed Sports Simulation.

November 20th:
- War Plan Pacific - A new strategy entry from Shrapnel Games.

This concludes the release date update for today, there will be a few more this month to conclude the month of November.

Fallout 3 Is An Accomplishment In Gaming.

Pictured above: Top: OOooOOh Headshot! Middle: The Wasteland City of Megaton Bottom: What Nukes Look Like in Fallout 3.
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I have recently acquired my very own copy of the new and highly acclaimed first person rpg, Fallout 3, from the makers of 'Oblivion'. Oblivion was one of my favourite games ever, and from what I've seen of Fallout 3, it may surpass Bethesda's last masterpiece.

You start out your journey in a rather unfamiliar fashion. You begin your life by coming out of your mothers womb. Here you will choose your sex, name and appearance. Once you are born you find out your mother has died during birth.

Next you are a one year old striving to walk his first steps, this is where you choose your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. which is:
Strength: Power, Melee, Encumbrance.
Perception: Explosives, Lockpick, Energy Weapons.
Endurance: Health, Environment Resistances, Big Guns and unarmed.
Charisma: Barter and Speech.
Intelligence: Science, Repair and Medicine.
Agility: Small Guns, Sneak and affects number of V.A.T.S. action points.
Luck: raises all skills and crit rating.

These skills are the base skills for all the other skills in the game.

Next you move on to become a ten year old boy at your birthday party. You meet some story characters and about where you are from and you get your first weapon, the BB gun.

After this you are turning 16 and have to take Vault 101's G.O.A.T. test which will decide your class or set of skills you start with. The skills system seems to be pretty close to the first two fallout games which is a plus for classic fans of the series.

Once you finish those tests and trials you are awoken to find out your father has left the vault and gone out into the post apocalyptic wastelands. You must leave the vault to find him.

I don't want to reveal too much of the story but you get the idea. Once you step out into the wastelands, you start to get the feel for fallout 3. The world is as unique as it is horrifying.

I found myself running around killing super mutants and finding new areas to loot while getting sidetracked from the main story. There is just so much to do in this game, its hard to keep focus. So much depth, it's amazing what Bethesda has come up with this time. The development team is apparently big fallout fans and it shows as the Fallout world finally comes to life in the next generation.

For anyone even remotely interested in Fallout 3, or games in general, should definitely give Fallout 3 a try.

Sound: 82
Graphics: 95
Story: 88
Value: 97
Replayability: 96

SVSGR Total: 91.6/100!!

Best Selling Video Games Oct 12-18

1. Spore
2. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
3. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
4. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning
5. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
6. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
7. Civilization IV: Colonization
8. World Of Warcraft
9. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
10. Crysis: Warhead

Spore has come out on top once again with the ever popular World of Warcraft sneaking into number 2 with its battlechest collection which includes the full game in addition to the burning crusade expansion. November 13th is the release date for Wrath of the Lich King, the next expansion for wow. Blizzard are lining themselves up for first and second place in sales within the next month. As for that Nancy Drew game..... ugh, people bought that? wait wait wait, not only did they buy it but more people bought it than they did the bottom 6 games! Believe it.