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New Call of Duty outsells GTA 4, and Batman, Indy and all your favourite Hollywood heroes…12th November, 2009

A new video gaming record has been set last week when I successfully obliterated my previous personal best on RPG classic Planescape Torment, and finished the whole thing in around five hours… In other news, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 became the fastest selling computer game of all time, beating not only the revenue stats for the previous record-holder, GTA 4, but also those of most major blockbusters, ever…

Let me give you a few figures:

‘Indiana Jones 4′ UK box office TOTAL:  £48m

‘Michael Jackson This is It’ documentary UK box office TOTAL (so far): £5m ‘

The Dark Knight’ UK box office TOTAL: £54m

‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ UK gross FROM LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER RELEASE: £47m…

Now clearly we’ve…

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