Evening Reading: NPD Day

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Back when I did 1UP Yours/Listen UP the second I always circled NPD day on the calendar each month. Not that talking about the numbers themselves is all that thrilling (as many listeners pointed out). But they did serve as the launch pad for some great debates. Don't know whether we can duplicate any of that here but I figured what the hell, let's see what happens.

Have to say I was pretty excited when I saw Uncharted 2 there in the top software spot. Not only is it a great game and a big win for PS3; no matter how much attention the multiplayer part garnered, it's still a story-driven single-player game first and foremost. That makes me happy. Not seeing Brutal Legend in the top 10, though, makes me sad. With plenty of time during the month to get in the sales and the big internal cuts at EA this week I imagine Double Fine is really under the microscope right about now. And then there's Halo 3: ODST. It launched late in September and blew everyone away with 1.5 million sold. Boy did it fall off fast. With the whole month on shelves it only managed a 6th place showing with 271,000. Combined, that puts it at around 1.75 million sold so far. Halo 3 did 3 million the month it came out alone. Is Microsoft's Halo starting to show some tarnish?

And on to the rest of today:

Thank you to everyone who posted that they're digging the off topic links. When someone mentioned it a few days ago I thought it sounded cool. I'll keep doing them as long as you want 'em.

Like this one: The animated story of Doc Ellis pitching a no-hitter on LSD

Android users, and there's a whole lot of new ones thanks to Droid, now you to can trade info with Bump for Android and it works cross platform with iPhones too.

MTV got the scoop on the upcoming Gattaca series

And you thought that drunk girl who fell in front of a Boston subway train cheated death. How about this dude who showed up at his own funeral

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