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From down under the World of Warcraft has been the top-selling game for the first half if 2007, industry tracker GfK Australia has released latest figures confirming the former. The game’s first expansion was Australia’s best selling game in terms of units sold, between January 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007. The game comes in at the overall sales lists at number 5 with the help of its expansion the Burning crusade to spur more sales of the original game.  Sony has dominated the list of top 10 with five titles which would either be available for PS2 or PS3. Sony might have the edge on the top 10 but Nintendo came over the top 20 list with eight titles under their belt which was for their console and handheld.

The full-list is provided below:

Top-selling games in Australia (first half of 2007)
1. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, PC
2. Final Fantasy XII, PS2
3. Pokemon Diamond, Nintendo DS
4. God of War 2, PS2
5. World of Warcraft, PC
6. Resistance: Fall of Man, PS3
7. MotorStorm, PS3
8. Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends, Nintendo DS
9. Cricket 07, PS2
10. The Sims 2: Seasons, PC
11. Guitar Hero 2 bundle, PS2
12. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo Wii
13. Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, Nintendo DS
14. Gears of War, Xbox 360
15. Pokemon Pearl, Nintendo DS
16. SingStar Rocks! bundle, PS2
17. The Sims 2: Pets, PC
18. Nintendogs: Labrador and Friends, Nintendo DS
19. New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo DS
20. Nintendogs: Dachshund and Friends, Nintendo DS

The World of Warcraft not only have exceed many expectations, it is still growing outside of its known medium, its really surprising that a movie has not yet been produced for Warcraft, but surely Blizzard is making major steps to spread the word of the game. It has been reported that the world of Warcraft will have its own comic book adaptation. DC comics were reported to be producing the comic book under the WildStorm imprint. The making of the comic book was said to be under the hands of a veteran in Walter Simonson who also wrote for marvel comics’ Thor, feature art by Ludo Lullabi and inker Sandra Hope. World of Warcraft comic will feature two covers, one by superstar comic book artist Jim Lee and a second by Blizzard Entertainment Senior Art Director Samwise Didier.

Here’s a taste of what kind of story is coming way in the comics: “The first storyline of the new ongoing series begins when a human is found unconscious on the shores of Kalimdor, with no memory of who he is or how he arrived there. Enslaved by an orc shaman, the man must fight for survival against members of both the Alliance and the Horde. He strikes uneasy relationships with other races in his quest to find the secrets of his past.”

A new beta version which is still to be released to the public by Blizzard Entertainment of its massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, will feature some changes which include revised items, player balancing, bug-fixes and being able to get online game footage through QuickTime. This new QuickTime functionality would require QuickTime 7.1.6 or more recent, and the new version would need a Mac OS X 10.4.9 or more recent versions.

One of the most fascinating changes for the users would be the graphics optimizations that were included. The new version would also incorporate some changes which use AltiVec on PowerPC-based Macs and SSE on Intel-based Macs. Vertex animation shaders aren’t available on Mac Minis and MacBooks, which actually use Intel integrated video systems compared to specific graphic cards, the changes in the new version are expected to bring some performance boosts on the Macs.  

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