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Mirror's Edge ''Mirror's Edge'' is an action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008, and for Microsoft Windows in 2009. Set in a near-future city, the game follows th ...

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Events

Business

Open to the public

Hardware and software sales

Worldwide

The following are the best-selling games of 2008 in terms of worldwide retail sales. These games sold at least units worldwide in 2008.

Canada

* Based on figures from the NPD Group: Video game console sales in Canada (first seven months of 2008)

Japan

* Based on figures from

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: Video game console sales of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 – December 28, 2008) Best-selling video games of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 – December 28, 2008) * Based on figures from '' Dengeki'': Best-selling video games of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 – December 21, 2008)

United States

* Based on figures from the NPD Group: Video game console sales in the US (first six months of 2008) Best-selling video games of 2008 in the US * Based on figures from the NPD Group via

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; the games' publishers are listed in brackets: Best-selling video games of 2008 in the US (by platform) * Based on figures from the NPD Group: Best-selling console games of all time in the US (as of May 1, 2008) Note: This list only includes games that were released after NPD started tracking video game sales data.

Other

* Based on figures from

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, and the NPD Group, respectively: Best-selling video games in Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States combined (January–July 2008) Best-selling video games in Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States combined (July–September 2008)

Game releases

Critically acclaimed titles

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(GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.

Notes

References

{{History of video games Video games by year