National Purchase Diary or NPD has released the top ten bestselling games for the week of June 2 and the results may surprise you. While the market research firm has had its share of criticisms from other industry analysts, a lot of people still turn to them for the latest sales figures.

The top two slots were claimed by World of Warcraft and World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade respectively. It seems that no amount of Wife/Girlfriend/Parent aggro can stop this juggernaut.

Furthermore, casual gamers have claimed the third slot with Sims 2 Seasons as it even outsold Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars which nabbed fourth and Halo 2 ending only on fifth place.

Check out the complete list to see if any of your favorite games managed to grab a slot.

Top Ten Games for the week of June 2:

1. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
2. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
3. The Sims 2 Seasons - Electronic Arts
4. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Electronic Arts
5. Halo 2 - Microsoft
6. The Sims 2 Celebration Stuff - Electronic Arts
7. Civilization IV - 2K Games
8. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
9. Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar - Turbine/Midway
10. Half-Life 2: Episode 1 - Valve/Electronic Arts

With all the recent releases of video games, it appears that the established IPs are still dominating the charts. When will we be seeing more new IPs join the list? Be sure to keep checking back here for the latest development on QJ.NET.

The student body of Yale University will be getting smothered with some Video Games Live loving on March 31, in cooperation with the Yale Symphony Orchestra. VGL's on-going tour (with sold out tickets at its wake) hits the academic campus by 8 p.m., but not without some pre-concert festivities. Special events served on the side of the VGL performance include a video game industry educational panel scheduled a day before the concert.

Entitled "Video Games - Past, Present, and Future," the panel is open to the public without any charge. And dropping by for the said talk would be the industry's iconic composers like Lorne Lanning (OddWorld Inhabitants), Tommy Tallarico (Metroid Prime), and Jack Wall (Myst III, Mass Effect). Now, for the show's date itself, from 6 - 8 p.m., they will be hosting cosplay contests, playable games, and gaming competitions (Guitar Hero II and Halo 2).

Ok. On with the concert proper: the show starts at 8 p.m. at Woolsey Hall. One of the biggest numbers for this show would be VGL's Castlevania arrangement. It's going to be played by Martin Leung on Woolsey Hall's 104 year old 3-story pipe organ. Could you imagine hearing Castlevania on that?!

A number of people will probably laugh at this - or not. Columbus State University held something called NerdaCon is a convention focused on gaming, popular arts (art, film, music and literature), and crafts organized by the Campus Nerds club of the Columbus State University.">NerdaCon, a convention for gamers, anime otakus, and other err... Enthusiasts.

As the convention's name suggests, it was organized by student group called Campus Nerds. It is now the largest student organization in CSU's campus according Matthew Ballard, the president of the org. Since the group doesn't discriminate in taking members into the fold, it probably has something for everybody. NerdaCon catered to just about anything featuring role playing games, Magic the Gathering matches, and bouts of Halo 2.

There was a World of Warcraft discussion, a Halo 2 impromptu tournament where players duked it out for US$ 18 and role playing with Dungeons and Dragons. Except maybe for the costumes, NerdaCon sounds pretty fun. This is the first year the convention was held and well, we know some would love a repeat.

No. This does not involve pRon. Lycos just wrapped up their annual list of the top 50 internet topics on their search engine, and they've posted the results over at 50.lycos.com as of last week, November 18.

Now, for the guys who don't wanna have to open up another browser or tab to lurk over and see if their favorite topics made its (No, not pRon), we've compiled two sets of the topics we know you guys will want to look over: Toys and videogames (For the last time, NO pRon)

For the Toys list, Sony fans will be happy to know that aside from being topped out in the list by Pokemon and the ever-popular iPod, the PS3 sits amongst the tops ten of this list, with nary the Wii or Xbox 360 in sight. The videogames list also reveals that MMORPG's are a topic favorite, with games like EverQuest, Runescape and WoW gracing the list, along with anime-themed titles like Kingdom Hearts 2, Naruto, and Gundam (They didn't specify if it's the UC or alternate universes). Of course, Halo 2's in the list.

Feel free to visit the Lycos 50 site for complete details on the rest of the top 50 searches.

The Top 10 Most-Searched Toys this holiday season: Poker; Pokemon; iPod; Neopets; Barbie; Harry Potter; Blackjack; Baccarat; Bratz; Playstation 3.

The Top 10 Most-Searched Games this holiday season: RuneScape; Naruto; Grand Theft Auto Vice City; WWE Smackdown; EverQuest; Gundam; World of Warcraft; Kingdom Hearts 2; Halo 2; Mortal Kombat.

Throughout the month of August, we've been posting entries about the 3rd annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). And just to remind you guys, the 3-day consumer gaming extravaganza started today (and like they said, it's not exactly like E3)! It's a gaming culturefest that includes music shows, exhibits, seminars, lectures, and, of course, lots and lots of games - the expo floor is home to Microsoft, Nintendo, and other developers who are exhibiting some of their upcoming games.

So, if some of you fanboys and girls have nothing to do during this weekend... you might have missed the events today, but maybe you'd want to drop by and join in on the all the following activities:

Saturday highlights:

Expo Floor 10:00-6:00
Halo 2 Tourney 10:30 - 2:30
D&D Open Duel 11:00-3:00
"Pitch Your Game Idea" panel 2:00-3:30
Penny Arcade Comic Strip Creation 3:30-5:00
Music Concert B 9:00-1:00

Sunday highlights:

Expo Floor 10:00-6:00
Guitar Hero Tourney 10:00-1:00
Soul Caliber III Tourney 1:30-4:30
Omegathon Final Round 4:00-6:00

These are just some highlights for the next two days, but there's much more, including more tournaments during the course of the expo.