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2009 is now firmly underway but some companies are still looking back to the past 12 months. One of those companies is Nielsen who is best known for their TV ratings system. Today the company announced their 2008 top 10 lists covering entertainment and ads in a variety of catagories. One of them was for the top 10 PC games that were most played in the US (the ratings were actually for activity for January-October 2008).It's not a shock to learn that Blizzard's hit MMO World of Warcraft was the number one PC game that was most played according to Nielsen. The study claims that the game is played an average of 671 minutes a week, or just over 11 hours, per gamer. Nielsen also claims that every minute about .723 percent of all PC gamers are playing World of Warcraft, a massive number that blows away every other game on the top 10 list. A number of older games are on the list including the PC version of Halo and web browser based MMO RuneScape:1. World of Warcraft 2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare3. Halo: Combat Evolved4. The Sims5. The Sims 26. RuneScape7. Diablo II8. Team Fortress 29. Counter-Strike10. Counter-Strike: Source
Nielsen reveals top 10 PC games played in 2008 originally appeared on Big Download Blog on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:00:00 EST.
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