Rather than bore you with two separate news posts on very similar subjects, I thought I'd lump them all in to this one for ease.

It seems that the global economic crisis doesn't really affect the games industry ... It does, but not as far as sales goes for the blockbuster titles. Today, Microsoft and Ubisoft released some up-to-date stats for both Gears of War 2 and Far Cry 2 and it seems that everything is going swimmingly.

Gears of War 2 [which I'm still yet to stick in my console] sold an impressive 2 million units over its launch weekend, both online and midnight madness inclusive. More than 1.5 million people logged in to the game over the weekend [not me again] and clocked up a staggering 15 million hours. Even more impressive is that those 1.5 million people unlocked more than 19 million achievements. Now they're some serious stats!

Far Cry on the other hand, which is not as mainstream as Gears of War, also saw some impressive sales, amassing a whopping 1 million sales in 3 weeks since its launch. Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer at Ubisoft commented "The holiday quarter is off to a solid start with the successful launch of Far Cry 2 ... The game is well on track to achieve our expectations for the year."

So good sales figures for good games. In other news; check back later for our Gears of War 2 review and next week for our Far Cry 2 review.

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