Play.TM writes: "After outgrowing the small German city of Leipzig and shifting focus to the cavernous halls of Cologne's Trade Fair Centre (Koelnmesse), the expanded and re-branded Gamescom took 2009 by storm. Attracting just shy of 250,000 attendees and more than 450 industry exhibitors during its inaugural year, Gamescom has subsequently established itself as the world's biggest videogame conference. Will Gamescom 2010 enjoy similar success or pale by comparison?"
Germany is Europe’s 3rd largest gaming market, behind France and the UK. Every month the German trade organization BIU provides awards honoring the top selling video games in the country. Games that manage to sell between 100,000-200,000 copies are given the BIU Gold Award, sales ranging between 200,000-500,000 earn a Platinum and for those that make it to 500,000 or more they are granted with a special award.
During the month of November there were several major releases in Germany including Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gran Turismo 5 and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Which one took the top spot?
Meh who cares and EU and JAP, lets be ignorant and just focus on USA since USA = world. /s
wonder how are they doing in France i have a feeling that BF is not doing good in france.
The BIU Sales Award in Germany have honored Electronic Art’s FIFA with both the Platinum and Gold award.
CVG: Microsoft has just released a neat bundle of Corvette-related Halo: Reach screens from Gamecom.