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Weekly PC Sales: Diablo Battle Chest Hangs On, Topped by Spore Creatures and Nancy Drew
Chris Faylor
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Sales-tracking firm NPD Group today issued its list of the ten best-selling pieces of PC software in the United States across the week of July 6 to July 12, 2008.

Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest, originally released in 2003, has now appeared on the weekly charts for three weeks straight--a feat attributed to the unveiling of Diablo 3.

Completely absent from the latest list is Funcom's mature MMO Age of Conan, which was #7 last week and #5 the week before.

  1. Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice / Her Interactive / $18 (Average)
  2. Spore Creature Creator / EA Maxis / $10 (Average)
  3. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $30 (Average)
  4. Diablo Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39 (Average)
  5. The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Expansion Pack / EA Maxis / $20 (Average)
  6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39 (Average)
  7. World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $20 (Average)
  8. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack / EA Maxis / $30 (Average)
  9. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack / Blizzard $30 (Average)
  10. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare / Infinity Ward / $50 (Average)

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • avatar_58 legacy 10 years
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    July 22, 2008 8:01 AM

    NANCY DREW??? An adventure game topped the charts? Well that's it folks, time to admit it. The platform is dead. I thought I'd never see the day.

    • baron calamity legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      July 22, 2008 8:09 AM

      The Nancy Drew games are pretty decent. and the Phantom of Venice is a good offering. The Adventure game is a hard core PC genre since the early days of the platform.

      • avatar_58 legacy 10 years
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        July 22, 2008 8:38 AM

        Why are you saying to me, surely you've read my posts evangelizing the genre? I'm just blown away that one of my fav genres has managed to top any kind of sales chart. I don't particularly follow the Nancy Drew games though, but kudos to them for breaking the mainstream barrier.

    • Lunaran legacy 10 years
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      July 22, 2008 8:27 AM

      dude, it's july.

    • donjuancarlos legacy 10 years
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      July 22, 2008 8:54 AM

      The #1 game in the country and no review?????

      Where's my Shacknews review of Nancy Drew?

      • IHATEDUST legacy 10 years
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        July 22, 2008 9:31 PM

        Seconded, why have I never heard of this Nacy Drew?

    • Pettytheft legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury mega
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      July 22, 2008 10:28 PM

      LoL. You sound like Billy Corgan when Britney Spears outsold the Smashing Pumpkins.

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