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#141 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 812 weeks ago
NPD: Modern Warfare 2 Sells 6 Million, New Super Mario Bros. 1.39 Million In November
As widely expected, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 moved over 6 million copies in the U.S. last month on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, making the first-person shooter November's best selling video game.
Settling for third, behind the two versions of Modern Warfare 2, was Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which managed 1.39 million copies. Nintendo's latest Mario adventure for the Wii did so with five fewer days on U.S. store shelves.
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II came closest to reaching New Super Mario Bros. Wii, with 794,700 units on the 360, 448,400 on the PS3. Combined, Assassin's Creed II came even closer, with 1,243,100 copies sold across both platforms.
The Xbox 360 and Wii tied for the number of top ten games appearing on each platform. The Xbox 360 scored top showings with Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, with Wii bestsellers Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort continuing to score big figures.
The full top ten, according to the NPD Group is as follows.
01. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) - 4,200,000
02. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) - 1,870,000
03. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 1,390,000
04. Assassin's Creed II (Xbox 360) - 794,700
05. Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360) - 744,000
06. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 720,200
07. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 679,000
08. Assassin's Creed II (PS3) - 448,400
09. Dragon Age: Origins (Xbox 360) - 362,100
10. Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 315,000
Total software sales were a relatively healthy $1.406B, down just 3.1% from the November prior. Thanks, Modern Warfare 2.
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has achieved the top spot for first-month sales of any game at the title level," says Anita Frazier, NPD analyst. "Halo 3 previously held the spot when it sold 3.3 million units in September '07 in 12 days at retail. MW2 bested Halo 3's daily sales rate by 16% in its 19 days at retail in November.""
"While this year's top-selling item bested last year's by 283%, it couldn't make up for softness elsewhere. The top 50 games this year sold 5% less units than did the top 50 last year."
http://kotaku.com/5423781/npd-modern-wa … n-november
#142 Re: The Garden » Mysterious lights in the sky over Norway » 812 weeks ago
Just saw on Fox News, they said it's a russian missle test.
#143 Re: Management » Maintenance/Site Updates » 812 weeks ago
I've been getting some mySQL errors recently. Its happened three different times just now when I try to do certain things (login, post, click on advanced reply).
An error was encountered
Error: Unable to connect to MySQL server. MySQL reported: Too many connections.
#145 Re: The Garden » The 2009 NFL Season Thread » 812 weeks ago
Its hard to believe Reid has been there for over 10 years. Ray Rhodes still had the best press conferences.
#146 Re: The Garden » The Tiger Woods Saga » 812 weeks ago
These two articles are from TMZ:
Tiger Woods Admitted to Hospital as OD
Posted Dec 8th 2009 1:00AM by TMZ Staff
Tiger Woods was admitted to Health Central Hospital the day after Thanksgiving as an overdose.
Sources connected with the hospital tell TMZ the admissions chart lists "OD" and that he was having trouble breathing.
We're told the fifth floor of the hospital was put on lockdown when Tiger arrived. Tiger was admitted under an alias -- William Smith. His wife, Elin Nordegren was by his side.
As we first reported, Elin gave paramedics two pill bottles at the accident scene -- we now know the prescriptions were for Ambien and Vicodin. Tiger was in and out of consciousness, snoring at the scene, and our sources say he clearly appeared to be under the influence of something -- not alcohol.
We're also told doctors used a breathing tube to assist his respiration.
We're also told hospital officials changed Tiger's alias after a few hours to another alias because they feared people would find out he was there.
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0Z67YtdAM
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911 Call to Tiger Woods' House
Posted Dec 8th 2009 6:20AM by TMZ Staff
An ambulance reportedly raced to Tiger Woods' house in Windermere, FL overnight -- and transported someone to the hospital ... but there are conflicting reports.
Orange County Fire officials confirm that a rescue call came in at 2:36 AM from the home on Deacon Circle, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel claims the patient refused to be taken to the hospital.
But WKMG TV in Orlando is reporting someone was transported and a blonde woman in a black Escalade followed an ambulance from Deacon Circle to Health Central hospital -- the same hospital that treated Tiger the night of his accident.
The Escalade's vehicle tag is similar to the one that crashed -- and, we know, Tiger has a second Escalade.
story developing
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0Z67oZ38J
#148 Re: The Garden » Conspiracy of Silence » 813 weeks ago
Welcome back.
#149 The Garden » HIV Man Injects Sleeping Wife With Own Blood » 813 weeks ago
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HIV Man Injects Sleeping Wife With Own Blood
11:22am UK, Sunday December 06, 2009
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
An HIV-positive man has confessed to injecting his blood into his sleeping wife and infecting her with the virus that can cause Aids, reports have said.
The HIV virus: Woman was infected as she slept
It is believed the man wanted to give her the disease so she would start having sex with him again, New Zealand's Sunday Star-Times said.
Court documents detailed how the man, 35, twice pricked his 33-year-old wife with a sewing needle laced with his infected blood.
The husband discovered he was HIV-positive - but his partner and children were not - during health checks imposed on them when the family arrived in New Zealand in 2004.
I got up... and I flicked the blankets... I looked at (the husband) and he was wide awake.
Victim tells of how she was infected
The woman had said she wanted to maintain the relationship for the sake of the children.
But she refused to have sex with her husband for fear of contracting the disease.
In the documents, the wife described how, in May, 2008, she found a sting-like mark on her left thigh and two days later awoke to a stinging feeling in her leg.
She said: "I got up... and I flicked the blankets... I looked at (the husband) and he was wide awake."
The wife asked him if he had pricked her and he said, 'No'. But she later found evidence of "blood sprinkles" on their duvet, which she said her husband tried to hide from her.
During a routine check-up four months later, doctors revealed she was HIV-positive.
The woman confronted her husband, who admitted dipping a needle in his blood and pricking her with it.
"All he said (was) he was sorry. He said, 'I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won't leave me'," she said.
The husband has admitted wilfully infecting another with a disease and faces up to 14 years in jail when he is sentenced at Auckland High Court next year.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World- … x_-_Victim
#150 Re: The Garden » Edward 'Umaga' Fatu Dead at 36 After Second Heart Attack » 813 weeks ago
Rex wrote:CrashDiet wrote:He was the guy that "hit" Austin with the car right?
No, that was Rikishi.
Yeah. Umaga was the one who had the match with Lashley a few years ago at WrestleMania, in the "Bald Billionaires" match that Austin was the special ref of. When he dropped a stunner on Donald Trump.
Classic Austin
Now I remember. His finisher was the thumb of doom right? 
