Follow GadgetBlips on TwitterNielsen's Top 10 PC Games and Consoles of 2008 (PC World)
Published 1/2/2009 at Yahoo! News: Personal Technology
PC World - World of Warcraft, Tetris, and the PlayStation 2 make strange bedfellows, but they each topped Nielsen's 2008 year-end scan of popular media trends in the U.S. World of Warcraft's a no-brainer on the PC games chart. But what about Alexey Pajitnov's twenty-some-year-old Tetris for mobiles? And are people really still playing the PS2?
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