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Modern warfare 2

Data has confirmed that Modern Warfare 2 will officially by the fastest selling game of all time with first day sales topping in at close to 10million copies. This smashes the previous record set by the Grand Theft Auto IV release of 5.9mil copies. The sales are so big in fact that the Infinity ward designed Modern warfare 2 accounted to 22% of total industry game sales for November alone. This really is no surprise since preorder numbers for Modern warfare 2 had already set records in the gaming industry. Total sales for the first 5 days for Modern warfare 2 was said by Activision to be $550mil

Activision has also made claims that it had 8million online players by the 5th day release creating a mammoth sized virtual army. Impressive? its more than the top 5 largest real life armies on this world combined. I personally own a copy of Modern warfare 2 myself (and contributed to Activision’s coffers) and there was an interesting scene in the game that prompted me to do more research. *SPOILER ALERT*….the “No Russian” mission is where the player is depicted as a deep under cover CIA agent involved in a airport massacre. Although the player is not required to take part in the killing of any innocent civilians, they are required to keep pace with the terrorists. Activision has claimed that this mission in Modern warfare 2 was put in as an important turning point in the game and not so much as for shock value. Did I kill the civilians? I didn’t even know I had an option of not having to! : P

The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) saga continues…With GTA 4 announcing its global release on 29th April 2008, it is said to be one of the most anticipated games of 2008 (or perhaps ever!) and estimated to earn sales in the excess of $400 mil or 6 million units within the first week. Upon the release date, GTA 4 has been heavily marketed around the world in the form of TV, online and print advertising.

Grand Theft Auto 4 has received shining reviews by gaming experts due to its rich environments, improved physics, in depth story plot and gameplay with many magazines giving it a perfect score of 10/10.

For the Australians…It has been confirmed by a spokesperson from Rockstar that an edited version of GTA 4 will be released in Australia & New Zealand to avoid R18+ classification, which does not exist in video games and will result in refusal of classification by the OFLC. This is believed to be due to a certain mission in the game where the main character must seek retribution of a friend who was a rape victim in jail. The mission requires a weapon which is used to sodomise the offender and due to the nature of this, it may be viewed as sexual assault which is a mandatory R18+ classification rating.

Grand Theft Auto IV has been released for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3

EDIT:  Take-Two has posted that the total sales for the first week for GTA IV topped $500 mil USD (that’s right, half a billion!!), well above analysts predictions. This makes GTA IV the biggest gaming release in history, beating Halo 3 which raked in sales of $300mil in its first week of opening.

The recent war between Toshiba’s HD-DVD and Sony’s Blu-Ray resulted in the demise of HD-DVD and movie studios taking up the new Blu-Ray standard which is supported on the Sony Playstation 3 over the HD-DVD which is supported on the Xbox 360. Xbox is confident that the news will not dampen the sales of its 360 consoles. Microsft boasts that the xbox 360 is the only gaming console that offers digital distribution of entertainment content (including high definition content).  Recent supply problems by Microsoft in the US means that the PS3 has outsold the Xbox 360 for its 2nd consecutive month