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The Top 100 Best-Selling PC Games of the Century

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-believe-millionaire-beats-out-hl2 dept.

Ground Glass writes "They already did this for consoles and handhelds, but now Next Generationhas finished the cycle by releasing a rather more interesting list of the best-selling PC games released since 2000. It's more interesting as, since most everyone has a Windows PC in some form or another, the games that are purchased for it are...rather more esoteric than you'd see being bought on console. You may also notice the sales numbers are quite a bit lower than on the other lists — is this the spectre of piracy given form? In any case, there's plenty of data to interpret here."

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  1. Gosh by masklinn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Print link because, seriously, 10 words/page just so they can display more ads is annoying

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    1. Re:Gosh by BobTheLawyer · · Score: 2, Informative

      No you can't - copying and modifying is a breach of copyright law in most jurisdictions.

      If you want to produce a phone book yourself then you need to compile the information yourself. Perhaps you'll use the same sources they used; perhaps different. Perhaps some/all of these sources are themselves copyrighted and you'll need to pay a licence fee.

      Makers of phone books and similar directories will sometimes insert phony entries so they can catch any competitors who copy their data.