World War II was a long and bloody affair - a war with no winners. That was, until Activision-Blizzard came along. The newest game in the Call of Duty franchise has outsold its predecessor two to one in the first week of sales.

World at War is sitting proud atop the multi-format charts with World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King nestled in the No. 2 position and Guitar Hero World Tour bringing up the rear. According to GI.biz, 25% all game sales for the week ending November 15th were courtesy of Activision.

It's been well over five minutes since we've had a new Square-Enix game on DS. Last year saw the release Final Fantasy IV, FF Tactics Advance A2 and FFXII: Revenant Wings on the trusty handheld, but 2009's Blood of Bahamut looks to offer something a little bit different.

Joystiq have posted a video of the Japanese debut trailer and it looks rather odd to be honest. The dual-screen game footage shows 2.5D side-scrolling RTS action (a bit like Revenant Wings, then) facing monolithic, travelling stone beasts that appear to be trying to find their way back to the PS2 adventure, Shadow of the Colossus.

It's early days yet, but hopefully the gameplay will be up to scratch.

Rock Band 2 should be making its way to UK retailers as we speak, a week after Guitar Hero World Tour band packs started flying out the door.

Stateside, both games have been out for a while now and the calculators have been hard at work to see who has come out top. All in, the games industry took in $1.31 billion in October and unsurprisingly, World Tour has come out top on all four platforms. It's made Activision a princely sum of $67.3 million - not that Harmonix will be disappointed with Rock Band 2 bringing home £26.8 million, considering it was only released on two platforms.
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Just as everyone was tightening their purse strings in the cold of this year's financial climate, Microsoft came along and announced that their console would retail at a price affordable to everyone. Thanks to said cuts, the Xbox 360 is about to do in three years what its predecessor failed to do in its four-year existence.

"By the end of this month, we expect our global installed base to reach 25 million units, surpassing that of the first Xbox" says Microsoft CEO of Entertainment and Devices. According to Joystiq, Mint is confident that this milestone is "only the start", since the general trend shows that more than 75% of a console's total sales come after the price drops below $200 (£150).

Back in September, you might remember Microsoft making a promise that GTA IV DLC would be available this Autumn and the 360 would be the only platform with content this Christmas.

Well, Rockstar's Dan Houser has gone and dashed those plans by admitting that he has no idea when it will be released. In an interview with Variety last week, he said, "It's going well, but we don't know a date.

"We hope to be announcing that in the next few weeks," Houser continued. "We're still figuring out a few things. We're more focused on quality than dates, always have been. But the development is going really good. It's shaping up to be something we're very proud of. That was our goal.
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