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Direct2Drive’s launched a European branch of its digital distribution store, catering specifically to European customers.

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Direct2Drive and Steam sales for the week of November 8 – 14 were released today.

Modern Warfare 2 topped the Steam charts, of course, while D2D’s top on the list was Dragon Age: Origins.

The list is below, courtesy of Shack.

Steam

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Dragon Age: Origins / Left 4 Dead 2 (preorder) (per BigDownload)
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
4. Borderlands
5. Overload Complete Pack
6. Torchlight
7. Crysis / Crysis Warhead Bundle
8. Football Manager 2010
9. Mass Effect
10. Counter-Strike: Source

Direct2Drive

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Borderlands
4. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition with Prima Guide
5. Torchlight
6. Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 2
7. Tropico 3
8. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
10. Fallen Earth

Direct2Drive has released its PC sales chart for last week, and the top three titles consist of various versions of Dragon Age: Origins.

Borderlands and Torchlight round-out the top five, respectively.

The list below is courtesy of Shack, which has also posted the weekly Steam sales. We posted those on Tuesday, as seen through here.

D2D Top Ten: Nov. 1-7

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition with Prima Guide
4. Borderlands
5. Torchlight
6. Tropico 3
7. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
8. Aion
9. Fallen Earth
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Direct2Drive and and Steam released the top 10 lists for the week of October 25-31.

Looks like Aion is still lingering, despite heavyweight games like Torchlight, preorders for Dragon Age and Borderlands.

Here’s he full list, courtesy of TenTonHammer.

Direct2Drive

1. Borderlands
2. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition (Preorder)
3. Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Ed. w/ Prima Guide(Preorder)
4. Torchlight
5. Tropico 3
6. Dragon Age: Origins (Preorder)
7. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition
8. Aion
9. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Halloween Promo)
10. Risen

Steam

1. Borderlands
2. Left 4 Dead 2 (Preorder)
3. Torchlight
4. Football Manager 2010 and Dragon Age Origins: Digital Deluxe Edition (Preorder) (Tie)
5. Killing Floor
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Preorder)
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Sale)
8. Dragon Age Origins LW: 4 (Preorder)
9. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (Sale)
10. Team Fortress 2 (Sale) and Aion: Standard Edition (Tie)

Another banner week for news regarding indie and other games of interest.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine may make it onto PC after all, 3D Dot Game Heroes is coming to North America, Nostalgia is now available, The Void sounds awesome, King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame has finally gotten a release date, Eufloria has a demo, and version 2.6 of the Unity Platform is now free.

There’s tons more stuff after the break, too. Surely there is something that interests you should you click onward.

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The AO version of Manhunt 2 will land on Direct2Drive next week for $29.99, reports BigDownload.

Rockstar has not detailed what exactly AO entails for the title, but rest assured it will contain more blood and violence that the retail version.

More info through here.

Direct2Drive has a sale going on for titles that are horror-themed, with some priced as low as $4.95.

Games on sale until Sunday include Cold Fear, Stubbs The Zombie, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, The Path, and Downfall.

BioShock, Damnnation and Far Cry 2 will run you $9.95 and Dead Space and The Witcher are $19.95.

Head on over here now for instant and cheap gratification.

Thanks, BigDownload.

Steam and Direct2Drive are offering digital versions of the regular and Collector’s editions of Dragon Age: Origins on the sites, and both offer goodies not present in the retail version.

The Wicked Oath, a ring that gives your character better critical strike damage and better armor penetration is the goodie on Steam, and Direct2Drive buyers can get the Dalish Ring which increases healing effects and lowers damage for Darkspawn attacks.

So there it is. The choice is yours.

Via BigDownload.

Activision has released Wolfenstein on Steam and Direct2Drive.

It can be yours for $49.95.

If you want it, go get it.

Direct2Drive’s latest Top 10 best selling PC games downloaded for week ending October 3 has Risen at the number one spot.

Fallen Earth rose to the number two spot, while Aion’s standard edition dropped to number three, and the collector’s edition to number five.

Five of the titles on the list were on sale for $5, so that should be taken into account as well.

Here’s the full thing, courtesy of BigDownload:

1. Risen
2. Fallen Earth
3. Aion
4. Mount and Blade ($5 Sale)
5. Aion Collector’s Edition
6. World of Goo ($5 Sale)
7. Champions Online
8. BioShock ($5 Sale)
9. Defense Grid: The Awakening ($5 Sale)
10. Civilization 4 ($5 Sale)

During the course of the week, loads of indie games, less mainstream titles and those point-and-click adventures you are always hearing about, sometimes get lost in the shuffle -what with news on Uncharted 2 and Modern Warfare 2 happening every three minutes or so.

That’s why, much like the MMO news round-up, we’ve decided to remedy this by giving you a heads up on news, demos, patches, announcements, trailers, screens and other doodads pertaining to these games that you missed out on during the week.

Yes, it’s all here for you in one post! See how much we love you guys? Another wall of text for the win!

While not comprehensive, since there are loads of this sort out there, we will do our best to be as thorough as possible.

Read on past the break for the first of, hopefully, many “Indie and other games of interest” post.

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The first three levels of Machinarium were released in demo form by Amanita Design today.

You can get it via FilePlanet, Demonews.de, and the full game’s out October 16 on Steam, Direct2Drive, Impulse and probably quite a few others.

Below the break is a video for the game, courtesy of Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

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There is just no stopping the Aion: Collector’s Edition from keeping the top spot on both the Direct2Drive and Steam charts.

To add to it, the regular version of Aion took the second spot on both as well and the similarities end with newly released MMO Fallen Earth at number three, on both too.

The full thing is below courtesy of Shack.

Steam (9/20 – 9/26):

1. Aion Collector’s Edition
2. Aion
3. Fallen Earth
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
5. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
6. Left 4 Dead
7. Resident Evil 5
8. Counter-Strike
9. Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection
10. Red Faction: Guerrilla

Direct2Drive (9/20 – 9/26):

1. Aion Collector’s Edition
2. Aion
3. Fallen Earth
4. Neverwinter Nights 2
5. Assassin’s Creed Director’s Cut
6. Titan Quest Bundle
7. Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
8. Champions Online
9. BioShock
10. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Looks like the Aion: Collector’s Edition is a very popular game,  a it topped both Steam and Direct2Drive’s charts for the week of September 19.

Batman: Arkham Asylum didn’t do too bad either though, coming in at a respectable second and third.

Steam

1. Aion Collector’s Edition (Pre-Sale)
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
3. Resident Evil 5
4. Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection
5. Garry’s Mod
6. Left 4 Dead
7. Red Faction: Guerrilla
8. Aion Standard Edition (Pre-Sale)
9. Counter-Strike Source
10. Champions Online

Direct2Drive

1. Aion Collector’s Edition (Pre-Sale)
2. Champions Online
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum
4. Fallen Earth (Pre-Sale)
5. BioShock
6. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
7. Need for Speed SHIFT
8. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
9. Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
10. Aion Standard Edition (Pre-Sale)

Via Shack.

Direct2Drive’s offering more cheap games this week as part of its fifth birthday celebrations, this time focussing on MMOs and RPGs.

The American’s get PlanetSide’s for $5, as is Neverwinter Nights 2. Brits get Age of Conan, a Titan Quest Bundle and a couple of GTA games.

Hit the links for the bananas full.

Steam and Direct2Drive has LucasArts’ adventure game, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, on sale for 50% off ($4.99/4.95) this weekend on Steam.

The sale runs until Monday, September 21 as part of this weekend’s deal and in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day which commences September 19.

Yarrrgh ya scallywag landlubbers! Get thee over to D2D or Steam now or you’ll be regretin’ it later on down the seaway me hearties.

Just practicing. Sorry ’bout that.

Direct2Drive’s turning five, and to celebrate, its putting some games up for sale each week for five weeks for $5/£5.

The first week’s offerings, which end on September 14, consist of Ubisoft and strategy titles, which are listed after the break. The following genres will be put up for sale each week, with titles to be revealed at a later date:

• Week Two: Action Games
• Week Three: RPGs & MMOs
• Week Four: Indie Games
• Week Five: War Games

Head on past the break to see what’s up for grabs in your region.

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Digital download sites Steam and Direct2Drive have released charts for week ending August 8.

Looks like Dawn of War II led the group over on Steam, with the Aion Collector’s Edition pre-sale still going strong.

Over on D2D, Champions Online preorders have taken over, with Fallout 3 and the Sims 3 still doing well.

Here’s the full thing courtesy of Shack – notice Hearts of Iron III debuted on both charts:

Steam

1. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
2. Aion Collector’s Edition (presale)
3. Left 4 Dead
4. Hearts Of Iron III
5. Counter-Strike: Source
6. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition – Director’s Cut
7. Red Faction: Guerrilla (presale)
8. TrackMania United Forever
9. Team Fortress 2
10. Prototype

Direct2Drive

1. Champions Online (presale)
2. Fallout 3
3. The Sims 3
4. Hearts of Iron III with Sprite Packs Bundle
5. Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 1
6. Rise of Flight
7. Hearts Of Iron III
8. Aion (presale)
9. East India Company
10. Civilization 4: The Complete Edition

Direct2Drive has a fabulous indie sale going on at the moment.

It’s a bundle consisting of five games for one price.

For just $17.75 you’ll get: Defense Grid, The Path, Zeno Clash, Democracy 2 and Cogs.

Hell, Zeno Clash is worth that all by it’s lonesome.

No end date for the sale was listed, but it shan’t last too long.

Thanks, BigDownload.

Digital distribution sales are on the up and up compared to retail sales, which took a dive for the month of June.

Sales for Steam increased 97 percent year-over-year and larger titles are planned for the service in the future. Direct2Drive sales increased 56 percent, and VP Jeff Steele expects “more of the same into 2010.”

Microsoft’s Xbox Live also saw a 73 percent year-over-year increase the last six months, but despite all the good news, Michael Pachter says that download sales only make up 5 percent of videogame sales.

“Downloads are probably $1 – 2 billion worldwide this year, compared to a $26 billion packaged goods market. Significant, but not enough to cause a 20% monthly sales decline,” Pachter told IGN. “Perhaps a 5 percent incremental impact in a given month, but not likely that the impact was more than that.”

NPD Analyst Anita Frazier agreed, saying in her monthly report: “While some of the decline in retail sales could be a migration on the part of consumers to acquiring content via digital distribution, our reports on downloads and subscriptions reveal that it’s not yet having enough impact on the console market to be an overly meaningful factor in the retail down-turn.”

Figures regarding digital sales may climb a bit more once more publishers start divulging revenue from download services.

More through the link.