video games - "xbox live"

What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe on Amazon this week? Grand Theft Auto IV returns on the top of the PS3 chart. After a discount sale, NCAA Football 09 rises to the top of the xbox 360 chart again. And Wii Fit stays on the healthiest spot of the Wii chart.

Gamerdeals.net writes: "The highlights this week include Spore (PC/Mac), NHL 09 (Xbox 360, PS3), NHL 2K9 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2), Spore Creatures (DS), and The Price is Right (Wii, DS). Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of September 7, 2008 on xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!"

Big Fish Games Studios summons you back to the deep mystery and magic of Azada. Too afraid to enter the library, young Titus calls upon your courage and superior puzzle-solving skills to disarm the magical menace. Luckily, Titus has given you a magic medallion to call upon him when in need. Enter the lives of storybook characters in more than 20 magic puzzle books. Meet famous legends like King Arthur, Rapunzel, Henry Jekyll, Buffalo Bill, and many more. Can you unveil the dark hidden secret in Azada: Ancient Magic?

We sit down to show you a bit of the PS3, xbox 360, and Wii versions of The Force Unleashed and discussed their differences.

CVG spoke with John Carmack about the in-development browser-based version of Quake III Arena called Quake live. He discusses the development team's reasons for the new project and mentions that current mods will not work. However, he adds, 'We're in no way shutting down the original Q3A scene, so anybody who wants to build things with the open-source code is still more than free to do so. That may even become a proving ground for moving things into Quake live.' Carmack also says Quake live will be fully ad-supported to start, but 'it's not out of the question that eventually we'll have some kind of a premium service. But we don't know what it's going to be yet, and we're certainly going out with the completely free-to-play model.' We've looked at video clips from Quake live in the past. of this story at Slashdot.