This week is a special one indeed for the PS3 Weekend Warrior. An insane amount of news has come in from E3 2008 and we've got even more stuff from the NPD. The biggest games, the most controversial issues, and even some homebrew goodness await you in the full article up next.

The NPD Group has released its report for the month of June and the sales figures are in on the top hardware and software performers of the past 30 days. This has been a big month for the PlayStation 3, but Nintendo's DS and Wii combo is still on top. Details in the full article up ahead.

It's like even before Will Wright's Spore releases, Electronic Arts keeps shoveling more and more moolah into the vault. Someone definitely did something right by getting IKEA involved in the latest expansion to The Sims 2, because the brand-approved luxuries tucked away inside every twenty buck box managed to overtake every PC retail game offered in the US. The full top ten list follows at the full story.

Well, whadda ya know? Electronic Arts' little bid to make some cash out of Spore actually worked. The superstar publisher is probably already swimming in money, but hear this: Spore Creature Creator is just a first taste of what's to come this September. The top ten best-selling PC games of the week is at the full story.

Eidos and Funcom have announced that Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has been doing well. According to reports the game has already surpassed 700,000 subscribers and is still going strong in multiple countries. To find out more, head on over to the full article!

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures for the PC is still rampaging on the top of the NPD PC video game sales charts in North America. To find out what other games made it into the list, head on over to the full article.

Aside from us, it appears that a couple of other known game industry analysts have gotten a whiff of NPD's sales report for last month. Jesse Divnich has recently stated his own opinions, which delves into how Metal Gear Solid 4 may give the PS3 its big break, and a possible price cut from Microsoft's camp. Further details are available in the full article.

Time to stop twiddling thumbs people, and go over the NPD results for top hardware and software sales for the month of May. Wii still maintains its lead, as well as the DS, and Niko Bellic is still on top of the food chain with the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. And oh, what's this? The PS3 overtakes Microsoft Xbox 360? Check out the hardware and software charts in the full article.

NPD Group has released the market performance results for May 2008, and already the PR armies at Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have began to churn out their reformatted versions of the results. Of course, each one talks only about what they've achieved so far in the fifth month of the Year of the Rat, but what happens when we put them all together? Yes, we get the full NPD May story.

The end of Blu-ray's road to glory still isn't in sight yet, despite winning the format wars over HD-DVD. But it may be soon, sooner than most analysts think. Details in the full article.