Weekly PC Sales: The Orange Box Reappears

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Continuing its weekly tradition, sales-tracking marketing research firm NPD has released its regular list of the best-selling PC games at US retailers.

Covering the week of August 17 to 23, the list is mostly unchanged from that of last week. That may soon with next week's list, as that data will include sales of the latest Sims 2 expansion, Apartment Pets.

This week though, the only major difference from week's past is the surprise resurgence of Valve's mega-compilation The Orange Box, which contains Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2.

  1. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest / Blizzard / $35 (Average)
  2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $30 (Average)
  3. World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $20 (Average)
  4. Spore Creature Creator / EA Maxis / $10 (Average)
  5. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack / Blizzard / $30 (Average)
  6. Diablo Battle Chest / Blizzard / $36 (Average)
  7. Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice / Her Interactive / $18 (Average)
  8. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare / Infinity Ward / $50 (Average)
  9. The Orange Box / Valve / $33 (Average)
  10. Warcraft III Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39 (Average)

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    September 3, 2008 9:06 AM

    It's so insane that Blizzard has 5 of the top 10 selling games.

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      September 3, 2008 9:12 AM

      Refer-a-friend rocks

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      September 3, 2008 10:11 AM

      And Activision Blizzard has 60% of the top ten. Or if you look at combined product cost, ATVI has $210 of the $301 worth of products in the top 10, or 69%.

      Gogo #1 publisher!

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      September 3, 2008 4:32 PM

      Remember to save the industry and buy Warhammer ,

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