This week’s gaming and movie releases, plus the most Pirated games of 2008
Only 3 more weeks left in the year and the gaming releases are slowing down to a trickle. For the 3 major consoles we only have two titles being let loose into retail this week. They are:
Playstaion 3
12/10/2008
Sonic Unleashed
Nintendo Wii
12/10/2008
Neopets Puzzle Adventure
and for the Xbox 360 -
Nothing….
Moving onto handhelds we have the PSP’s last release of 2008, and 5 new titles for the DS.
PSP
12/10/2008
Dungeon Maker 2
Nintendo DS
12/10/2008
Slingo Quest, Cate West: The Vanishing Files, Drivers Ed Portable, Build a Lot, and Left Brain Right Brain 2.
This week’s Blu-Ray releases are probably the biggest news in the land of geekdom. Actually one release in particular….
Blu-Ray
12/09/2008
The Dark Knight
OMGZ Christian Bale is sooo hot!
Lost Season 4
Horton Hears a Who
and for the rest of this week’s Blu-Ray releases you can check the full list here - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_nf_2_more?ie=UTF8&field-releasedate=1y-7y&node=16295751&rank=salesrank&pf_rd_p=325297301&pf_rd_s=center-11&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=193640011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1HRG6XJRDPV1QX2HB1VN
In other tech related news Microsoft has released two new colors for the 120 gig Zune just in time for Christmas.
I have a Zune. I love it! www.zune.net
Now for the list I’m sure alot of you came here to read, The Most Pirated Games of 2008. It really should read the most pirated PC games of 2008 but whatever. This list was compiled by Torrentfreak.com and in no way are these official numbers but they more then likely give a pretty good look into what went on in the GameZ Scene this year.
PC Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2008
| downloads | released | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spore | (1,700,000) | (Sept. 2008) |
| 2 | The Sims 2 | (1,150,000) | (Sept. 2004) |
| 3 | Assassins Creed | (1,070,000) | (Nov. 2007) |
| 4 | Crysis | (940,000) | (Nov. 2007) |
| 5 | Command & Conquer 3 | (860,000) | (Mar. 2007) |
| 6 | Call of Duty 4 | (830,000) | (Nov. 2007) |
| 7 | GTA San Andreas | (740,000) | (Jun. 2005) |
| 8 | Fallout 3 | (645,000) | (Oct. 2008) |
| 9 | Far Cry 2 | (585,000) | (Oct. 2008) |
| 10 | Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 | (470,000) | (Oct. 2008) |
Link to their story - http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-games-of-2008-081204/
No wonder why Crytek wants to shift focus onto the console side of development.
In case anyone forgot Crytek’s president Cevat Yerli had this to say back in April of this year ” I believe that’s the core problem of PC Gaming, piracy,” “It was a big lesson for us and I believe we wont have PC exclusives as we did with Crysis in future. We are going to support PC, but not exclusive anymore.”
Way to go PC gamers! Keep on destroying your hobbie and don’t come on here commenting about how successful pc gaming is doing because of Blizzard and WOW, they are the anomaly of the PC gaming industry.
I don’t even know why I’m writing about this, pc gaming dead.
PS:
Only 17 shopping days left until Christmas!
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Will Wright owns the #1 and #2 slots on that list, and with a 4 year old game.
Haha. Get fucked, EA! Spore and Sims 2 are #1 and 2.