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'Call of Duty: World at War' reclaiming No1 ahead of 'FIFA 09' at No2 and 'Need for Speed: Undercover' at No3. No4 is 'Mario Kart Wii' and No5 is 'Wii Play'. 'Tomb Raider: Underworld' moves up three places to No6, 'Guitar Hero: World Tour' moves up four places to No7 followed by 'Quantum of Solace' at No8. 'Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games' moving up to No9 and ‘Sonic Unleashed’ jumping ten places to No10. For invidual format list, see comment.
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Effissimo Capital Management, a Singapore-based investment advisory company and Tecmo's second-largest shareholder, opposes the Ninja Gaiden studio's plans to merge with developer and publisher Koei (Dynasty Warriors series). The investment firm, which owns a owns 17.6 percent stake in Tecmo, claims that the video game company has not adequately explained how the fusion will benefit investors.
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Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian said : "Our latest channel checks indicate that video game sales overall remain stable through mid-December, consistent with historical industry performance through economic downturns," he says. Software sales, Sebastian says, are still well on track to clock a minimum 20 percent growth for 2008 -- beating analyst targets set at the beginning of the year.
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One analyst, Piers Harding-Rolls from Screen Digest says that his firm thinks that next year could be Sony's year. "We always felt that 2008 was the year that PS3 kicked off - but we think that will now be 2009," he says. Yes, this is the same Screen Digest that projected that the PlayStation 3 would dominate, with the Wii slipping to third by 2010. That was extremely early in this console generation and, obviously, things have changed.
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01. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 489,100 / NEW 02. [PS3] Gundam Musou 2 (Bandai Namco) - 176,400 / NEW 03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) - 149,600 / 779,100 04. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) - 144,500 / 731,500 05. [NDS] Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (Bandai Namco) - 123,600 / NEW For complete list and H/W, see comment.
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It's like something out of a fanboy fantasy land. At next year's CES, there will be a Street Fighter IV tournament. In which Capcom, Microsoft and Sony will select champions, then do battle. For real. They will fight, you will take sides, s*?! will get real.
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Last week Gamasutra was able to confirm that nearly half of the San Rafael, California-based studio's workforce had been let go. The remaining 38 were forced to take pay cuts in order to allow them to remain at the company. According to a report by IGN’s Matt Casamassina, the entire studio may have been forced to close. Reproducing part of an e-mail from an “inside source” at the company, the report suggests that the company has already closed.
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EA has scored its sixth Christmas number on in eight years - FIFA 09 has claimed the top spot and trumped the favourite Call of Duty: World at War. Retailer promotions saw sales of FIFA 09 rocket by 89 per cent according to the weekly sales data from Gfk-ChartTrack. Call of Duty had been the UK's top selling games for the past five weeks. Full Price top 40 in comments.
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Free Radical, creator of Timesplitter, are closing down. Co-founder Ellis was "visibly upset" when he talked to the staff. "[He] told staff how very sorry he was and they'd been doing all they could, working flat-out to either find a publisher or a buyer over the past six months, but no offers were made. There have been several visits to the States, but to no avail." Reps from Codemasters and Monumental Games were at the hotel after the meeting asking for CVs and applications.
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01. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Bandai Namco) - 105,900 / 105,900 02. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) - 97,700 / 587,000 03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) - 94,500 / 629,400 04. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) - 63,100 / 341,700 05. [NDS] Penguin no Mondai: Saikyou Penguin Densetsu! (Konami) - 59,000 / 59,000 For complete Top 10, see comment. 5 on Wii, 5 on NDS
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