Below is a list of the USA’s top selling PC game titles for the beginning of March. The list includes the top ten retail sales as well as Direct2Drives’s top ten.
NPD Retail sales (3/1 – 3/7)
1. Empire: Total War– Its hardly surprising that Creative Assembly’s historical real time strategy title debuts at number one for the week.
2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King – The expansion pack for the world’s biggest MMO gets knocked from its number one spot. It’ll be back.
3. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning – Mythic’s MMO sees a rise in popularity as a result of its price reduction.
4. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
5. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II – Read our review
6. The Sims Carnival
7. Empire: Total War – Special Forces Edition
8. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition
9. World of Warcraft Battle Chest
10. World of Warcraft
NPD’s sales chart takes into account all physical store sales across the USA.
Due to the rising popularity of digital downloads in less bandwidth starved countries such as the USA, we have includedDirect2Drive and STEAM’s Top Ten
Direct2Drive sales (3/2 – 3/10)
1. Empire Total War
2. Empire Total War – Special Forces Edition
3. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
4. Empire: Total War (Pre-Order with free gane)
5. Drakensang: The Dark Eye
6. MLB 2K9
7. Rome: total War Gold Edition
8. Final Fantasy XI Vana’diel Collection 2008
9. Defense Grid: The Awakening
10. Grand Theft AutoIV
STEAM (3/1 – 3/17)
1. Unreal Tournament III Black
2. Empire: Total War
3. Left 4 Dead
4. Dawn of War II
5. Counter-Strike Source
6. World in Conflict
7. The Orange Box
8. Team Fortress 2
9. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
10. Fallout 3
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