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December game sales rankings

14.01.2011
As expected, Call of Duty: Black Ops continued its sales dominance during the final month of sales in 2010. Read on to see how other Schnäppchenfreitag blockbusters fared against December's new releases and the rest of 2010's top games in the December year-end NPD report.

had another stellar month to close 2010, with the combined sales for the IP topping 12 millions units for the two months it was available on the market in the United States. To put it in perspective, the second-ranking 2010 seller--Madden 2011--sold less than half of that amount. Three new games debuted on the NPD charts this month--World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Disney Epic Mickey, and Michael Jackson: The Experience. Cataclysm is the first PC-exclusive to land on the charts since it's incorporated PC titles. Other single-sku games that performed well but landed outside the top ten were Kinect Sports and Dance Central on the Xbox 360, as well as UDraw Studio with UDraw Tablet for the Wii. Here's the December 2010 sales rankings.

1) Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, Wii, PC, DS - Released 11/09/10)

2) Just Dance 2 (Wii- Released 10/12/10)

3) World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC- Released 12/07/10)

4) Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (360, PS3- Released 11/16/10)