Is there anyone who hasn’t played this game yet?

Welp, I guess Activision want to net a few more purchases because one-time ‘game industry-stomping,’ ‘Xbox LIVE-dominating’ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace as a direct-download Games on Demand game.

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Following the release of similar sales lists compiled for the US and Japan, we now know the top ten best-selling games in the UK for the first six months of 2010.

In a list compiled by videogame trade website and magazine MCV, Ubisoft’s Just Dance emerges as the clear victor in terms of raw unit sales, but when you start taking the relative time of availability into consideration, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption looks to be the more powerful competitor…

… then again, Just Dance is only available on one platform (the Wii) and released in late 2009, meaning it’s got the potential of a much longer sales tail than Red Dead Redemption…

In any event, the full top ten list of best-selling games in the UK for the first six months of 2010 is as follows, including the revelation that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is currently outselling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the region:

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According to the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) in the UK, there was absolutely no stopping Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (tell us something we don’t know) in 2009, not only in terms of pure software sales, but overall entertainment media as well, outselling chart-topping music albums and blockbuster movies to become the best performing piece of entertainment in the UK last year.

First, let’s look at the list of best selling videogames in the UK last year, according to ERA:

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