US Laptop game charts: May perhaps 28-June 3

US Laptop game charts: May perhaps 28-June 3
On June one, Valve Software's budget-priced stand-alone adventure Half-Life 2: Episode Just one was launched in boxed, retail form in addition as as a result of the developer's individual electronic distribution support, Steam. When the game's on the web revenue figures were not taken into account, the industry-tracking NPD Group's most up-to-date US Pc income chart indicates the boxed, retail version with the game was the second-best-selling title at retail for that week ending June 3.

Blizzard Entertainment's massively multiplayer Pc retail champ World of Warcraft reclaimed the best spot for the charts after spending the earlier week participating in second fiddle to 2K Games' The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which dropped to fifth place. Electronic Arts' The Sims two proceeds to show its longevity, using the 3rd place while in the charts, with its Open for Business and Household Enjoyable Things expansions trailing in sixth and seventh position, respectively.

Even though the prior week's chart showcased a pair of Microsoft-published real-time strategy online games in Age of Empires III and Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, both equally the genre and also the publisher have been wiped off the charts this week. Which was partly attributable to Ubisoft's turn-based approach game Heroes of May & Magic V landing the fourth position around the charts, with its more expensive limited-edition package sliding in under the wire during the 10 place. Sealing the deal and shutting out Microsoft and its real-time tactic online games were NCsoft's massively multiplayer Guild Wars Factions in eighth place and EA's first-person shooter Battlefield two, securely entrenched in the same ninth spot it occupied last week.

NPD's US Laptop gross sales charts are based on the number of units sold at 23 with the monitoring firm's retail partners.

Chart us_pc_sales for date 2006-06-13 12:32:17