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Top 10 best selling PC games for November

Category: PC, Posted: 12/05/2007 at 12:03PM CST by Sean Pincombe, Staff Writer

Chart of Epic Lulz concentration on GN The NPD Group has been nice enough to release the latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US, for the week ending November 24:

Coming in at number one is the amazing Orange Box, reviewed here, by GamerNode, which is actually quite impressive since NPD Group numbers do not take Steam sales into account. Secondly, and rightly so, is Call of Duty 4, reviewed here, Infinity Ward's pearl of a shooter; it's a great addition to the CoD family.

This next one had me stumped. I actually had to Google the title to work out what it was. Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst, is the latest in a series of point-and-click-adventure-puzzle-solving games by Big Fish Games. Props for being the 3rd highest selling game!

Next are the MMORPGs, Guild Wars and World of Warcraft, capable of eating your soul and in the case of WoW, your wallet. Good to see that Blizzard's life-destroying beast isn't the highest selling MMORPG for once, well done ArenaNet.

Next up are the rest of the shooters to make up the top 10, with Crysis and BioShock, both great titles, unique in their own ways. I'd much rather see Unreal Tournament 3 in place of BioShock, but it's still a bloody good game and there's always next month.

And last but not least, we have The Sims games. You've really gotta hand it to EA and Will Wright, they certainly know how to sell games, even if they are just add-on packs that don't "add-on" all that much. The mindless Sims faithful must buy, and buy they have.

1. Half Life 2: Episode 2 The Orange Box - Valve/EA
2. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Activision
3. Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst - Big Fish Games
4. Guild Wars - NCSoft
5. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
6. Crysis - Crytek/EA
7. Bioshock - 2K Games
8. The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff - Electronic Arts
9. The Sims 2 Celebration Stuff - Electronic Arts
10. The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff - Electronic Arts

[via FiringSquad]

Posted by Wasabi on 12/05/2007 at 12:22PM

Wow. I would not expect the Orange Box to be first, and that's amazing if it doesn't count Steam sales!

The Sims 2 stuff being in there sickens me...

Posted by Vinie on 12/05/2007 at 12:39PM

If you think that's bad just wait until the Shopping Mall edition comes out :P
Where is Guitar Hero, Mass Effect and Assassins Creed? o.O

Posted by Requiem on 12/05/2007 at 01:08PM

These are PC sales Vinie.

Posted by Brendon on 12/05/2007 at 01:35PM

Orange Box number 1 without Steam? Wow.

Posted by Vinie on 12/05/2007 at 02:23PM

"These are PC sales Vinie."
I really gotta stop trying to read without glasses (hides in a hole)

Posted by lskennedy on 12/05/2007 at 03:43PM

I can forgive you for Guitar hero, seeing as it is on the pc. but i mean, WOW, go orange box, and darn, I wanted ut3 to sell more, but i think people are waiting for the ui patch amirite?

Posted by Krakn3Dfx on 12/05/2007 at 05:16PM

I picked up 4 copies of Orange Box for $25 each when bestbuy.com had...their $25 for Orange Box...deal.

Already had a copy for myself that I bought on Steam, but my son wants to play TF2 (nobody seems to be playing Forever Fortress online anymore, that was a fun 8 days though), and I have 3 friends who will love it.

Posted by popecodex on 12/05/2007 at 07:03PM

Wow I knew those puzzle adventure games were solid sellers but I never expected one of them to make a top ten sales list. Also I have to wonder just what the steam numbers are for the orange box ...I know most people prefer boxed copies but out of the 15 people I know with the OB all of them bought it on steam. Thats anecdotal of course but it makes me think the steam numbers are probably pretty damn good with the hardcore.

Posted by goatlinks on 12/05/2007 at 07:58PM

Go OB!!! (I still don't have it...I know ten lashes) Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst came out of NOWHERE!!!