**Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, PC, NDS) 1 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD – 8.4 million units
**Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (360, PS3) 2 UBISOFT
Just Dance 2 (Wii) 3 UBISOFT
Madden NFL 11 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP) 4 ELECTRONIC ARTS
**Fable III (360) 5 MICROSOFT
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) 6 NINTENDO
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PS3, 360, Wii, PC) 7 ELECTRONIC ARTS
**Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) 8 SONY
NBA 2K11 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP,PC) 9 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE
*Wii Fit Plus (Wii) 10 NINTENDO

Analysis from Anita Frazier…

Overall
“November sales represent the best November on record in terms of new physical retail sales. It bests November 2008 by roughly $30 million, and that time frame was at the height of the music/dance genre sales.”
“All categories were up over last year with the exception of portable hardware and software.”
“The 360 platform accounted for over 40% of total industry sales driven by the successful launch of Microsoft’s Kinect. Xbox 360 accessories accounted for 60% of that categories’ dollar sales this month.”

Nintendo reveals November NPD sales data

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Nintendo Sells More Than 2.7 Million Wii and Nintendo DS Systems in November
Nintendo is still hot for the holidays. In November alone, eager holiday shoppers in the United States snapped up more than 2.7 million Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems. That equates to more than 1.2 million Wii systems and more than 1.5 million units from the Nintendo DS family of systems, according to the NPD Group, which tracks U.S. sales of video games.
“According to our internal numbers, Nintendo sold 600,000 Wii systems during Thanksgiving Week alone, an increase of 50,000 over 2009,” said Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America’s senior director of Corporate Communications. “Holiday shoppers are obviously responding well to the great value Nintendo products offer, from our special bundles to the social fun of our games.”
Nintendo has something for everyone, including hot bundles for the holidays:

Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition unboxing video

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Spector comments on Epic Mickey reviews

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This information comes from Warren Spector…

“I’ve never worked on a game that’s polarized people like this. Literally, we’ve got a half dozen perfect scores and I’ve also gotten the lowest scores I’ve ever gotten on any game I’ve ever worked on. In a weird sort of way, I think that’s kind of cool. The fact that you’re making something that people feel that strongly about either way is way better to me in a weird sort of way, of course you want everybody to think you made the best game ever, but if we were trending at something like an 8 out of 10? I’d probably have to kill myself. It’s kind of cool to polarize people in that way and have people feeling really passionate about it and talking a lot about it, I’m kind of jazzed about that.”

The review scores with Epic Mickey have definitely been odd. At first, a number of publications really praised the title, but since then, I’ve seen scores as low as 4.

de Blob 2 trailer

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Complete Famitsu review scores

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Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) – 9/9/9/10
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (PS3/360) – 9/9/8/9
Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen! The Ogre (DS) – 9/9/8/8
Shining Hearts (PSP) – 8/8/8/8
Skate 3 (PS3/360) – 7/7/7/8
Kanuchi: Futatsu no Tsubasa (PSP) – 7/7/6/6
Pac-Man Party (Wii) – 6/7/6/7
Tantei Opera: Milky Holmes (PSP) – 7/7/8/7
Dondake Sports 101 (DS) – 5/6/4/3
Deca Sporta Freedom (360) – 7/6/6/7
Gundam Musou 3 (PS3/360) – 9/8/8/9

ESRB updates

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Absolute Baseball (DSi) – E
Okamiden (DS) – E10+
Atari Greatest Hits: Volume 2 (DS) – E
Chuck E. Cheese’s Sports Games (Wii) – E
Fit in Six (Wii) – E
El Chavo (DS) – E
La-Mulana (Wii) – E10+