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November 2007 Software Sales

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360) — 1,570,000
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) — 1,120,000
3. Assassin’s Creed (Xbox 360) — 980,000
4. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PlayStation 2) — 967,000
5. Wii Play w/ Remote (Wii) — 564,000
6. Mass Effect (Xbox 360) — 473,000
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PlayStation 3) — 444,000
8. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) — 426,000
9. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) — 387,000
10. Assassin’s Creed (PlayStation 3) — 377,000

Source: Advanced Media Network

Finally, I am writing a review on one of the greatest games I have ever played. Now given it’s single player might be a little short, I beat it in around 10 8 hours on Veteran first play through (I’m use to COD Veteran Difficulty), it’s still a great game no matter what you say. I’ll start with single player, the graphics are insane, the feel the game gives you as you play through, I enjoyed a lot. What I liked most about the game is the sniper level, given they could of made shooting the sniper at that one point of the level easier and more explainable, it was still so much fun prior to crawl and take out enemies and afterwards when your running to extraction.

Multiplayer is what makes this game so much better, it has to be one of the best multiplayer games I have ever played and their are few of those in my opinion. I am addicted to it sort as I was back in the days when I was addicted to MOH:AA and Call of Duty 1/2 online (Never got into 3 nor enjoyed it). It’s ranking system may be fast but it’s really not that fast after you get in the 30’s and have to reach 55. Rather your good or not unless you cheat and boost which just means you fail at life.

But what’s even better is that there is a ‘Prestige Mode’. What this is once you reach level 55 and fill it’s bar (basically as if you’d fill the bar to reach level 56). You are given the option to enter Prestige Mode and start all over again stating you are an “awesome player” but technically, this is not entirely true as I have played with higher ranks and MOST/99% of them suck so badly. What happens when you entire prestige mode? You look your rank of 55 and start at 1 again, you are given a special badge for each prestige mode you enter (there are 10). You have to rank up to get all your weapons back, you start all over with challenges and being able to create classes. The only thing you basically do get/keep is a new shiny badge and you keep the ability to change your clan tag. There is nothing wrong with this though but I do they should at least unlock all challenges because by the time you unlock the other challenges in the deeper ranks, you’ve completed them prior but don’t get credit for them and you’ll end up going into prestige mode again most likely before you even finish any of them.

Online plays smooth though, it will get even better with the recent updates they have been talking about doing to fix a few some problems such as dropping the game if the host whom 98% of the time you have no idea who is. This update will pick someone else to host it instead. I am not sure but hope in the next update that it will not find you games where they are almost over and of course, you are on the losing team. That or have a minute left, so many scenarios I have been in and sure others that have played the game a lot and understand what I am talking about, have been in too.

I know the game doesn’t have any stat recording like Halo 3 has. This was suppose to be in the game but they pulled it out. They say it will be coming though, I am guessing they should have this for us on their 2nd update though this next update would be awesome to through that in with. I enjoyed that about Halo 3, especially how you can check your stats online (website).

Overall, this game gets a 10/10.

So the black Xbox that we have been hearing about for awhile is finally real, Xbox 360 Elite.

What’s new? It’s black, has HDMI port and a 120GB HD.

Is it worth it? If you currently have an Xbox 360 Console, I say no. If not, why not except you will be paying $79.99 more as the price is $479.99, not $399.99. The reason why I say no if you currently have one is because there is nothing great about the new “Elite” console. Wow, it has HDMI, most HDTV’s will not show much a difference between HDMI and Component. Then there is the 120GB HD, you can buy it separately for a whopping $179.99. Yes, $179.99 not including the tax you will have to pay. This is so overpriced and ridiculous, Microsoft needs to rethink this price and they could by getting rid of the overpriced 20GB HD as well.

“Put simply, I feel that $180 is too much money to charge for a 120GB drive; this is especially true when I remember that I’m paying for nearly all the content that I will store on that drive in addition to the $50 a year I’m paying to play games on Live. They should have removed the 20GB drive from the market and released this new one at the existing pricepoint. Hell, it should be free after the purchase of your 20th Live Arcade game.” — Taken from this 1up story.

I completely agree what he has said. I do not understand why Microsoft would call this console “Elite” considering there is no built-in HD-DVD drive. Blu-Ray is winning the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray format war in my opinion, if the console would already come built-in rather than as a $199 add-on I think it would help Microsoft gain some more ground in the format war. Another thing, no built-in WiFi, this is just more of a convince to people, I wouldn’t use it myself as I use Ethernet but there are people using it they could save money rather than having to buy the $99 wireless adapter.

Here are some stories that I dugg yesterday (Monday) and through out tonight that I found interesting and would like to share. Find the stories I digg here.

Apple: iPods built to last ‘for years,’ not ‘four years’digg story
The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Timedigg story
USA Bill Requires Schools & Libraries BLOCK Social Networking & Chat Sitesdigg story
Bulldozer destroys town, police helpless to do anything but watchdigg story
Major Google Talk Update (File Transfer, Music Status, Voice Mail and more!)digg story
Pay Phones Suffer As Cell Phone Use Risesdigg story
How the DS beat the PSP (and how the Wii will do the same against the PS3)digg story
Kazaa site becomes legal servicedigg story
Google Launches ‘Google Help’digg story
September 11 Charities Get Share of “World Trade Center” Movie Receiptsdigg story
The Swirling Vortex of Doom, Lake Peigneur, Louisiana in 1980digg story
Napster founder commerce enables unprotected MP3s on MySpacedigg story
Halo 3 Last in Series – MS confirms Bungie on new Projectdigg story
Turning Network Free-Riders’ Lives Upside Downdigg story
Professor invents ‘ripeness’ sticker to tell if produce is fresh!digg story
Zelda: The Lost & Found beta tester’s Wind Waker levels – hidden in game!digg story
Ten Days of Hell, and what caused itdigg story

Here are some stories that I dugg yesterday (Tuesday) that I found interesting and would like to share. Find the stories I digg here.

Fan-Made Handheld Gamecubedigg story
Sneak Peek At The Simpsons Moviedigg story
How Apple may actually implement Windows support on in Leoparddigg story
Lucas confirms Wii-mote to be used as light sabredigg story
bootable copy of windows on a USB flash drivedigg story
Firefox takes over IE7digg story
Funny short film dealing with BOOBS!!!digg story
Netscape.com HACKED!digg story
Origin of Control-Alt-Deletedigg story
A Tour Of Nintendo World And The Apple Storedigg story
Kevin Smith enters a flame war on Rottentomatoes’ forums over Clerks IIdigg story
PSP UMD Tools leaked by Sony?digg story

Here are some stories that I dugg today for news yesterday and today that I found interesting and would like to share. Find the stories I digg here.

“Lost” Lands New Star, Reveals Numbersdigg story
The numbers are in for Google Talk, and they’re not gooddigg story
How to Protect Your Eyes While Gamingdigg story
15 Years of Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Retrospective)digg story
Blonde meets Appledigg story
This must be the dumbest idea everdigg story
The 10 Greatest Years In Videogame Historydigg story
Facebook giving away 10 million iTunes songsdigg story
Sonic the Hedgehog (Play The Video Game)digg story
New Apple iPod Details Surfacedigg story
Kevin Smith skewers his ‘sacred cow’digg story
Camp Hyrule: Summer Camp for Nintendo Fansdigg story
Monopoly replaces cash with Visa debit carddigg story

Here are some stories that I dugg yesterday (Sunday) that I found interesting and would like to share. Find the stories I digg here.

Bill Gates spoof on Lettermandigg story
AOL founder says he is ‘sorry’ for Time Warner mergerdigg story
The Top 10 Most Memorable Cheats In Gaming Historydigg story
YouTube Worth $1 BIllion? But Who Will Buy It?digg story
Intel pulls ATI chipset licensedigg story
Myspace redesign mockupdigg story
Revolutionary New Music Service Debutsdigg story
The Case for Breaking Up Wal-Martdigg story
Official: AMD Buys ATI, Shafts NVIDIAdigg story
Sex in Space: Getting a Grip on Gravitydigg story
Corporate Websites from 1996digg story

And here’s an X-Men Blooper clip (which I found on digg but no longer can find the digg, oh well, here it is for you to view): X-Men Blooper

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