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It may not have been able to top Call of Duty: Black Ops when it comes to being the most popular game played on Xbox Live, but Battlefield 3 was — at least for a month — able to take the top spot on the NPD sales charts for October.

Battlefield 3 came in at “just under” 2 million units across all platforms in the United States. That’s not a terrible figure for a game released at a time where it had only five days to track in the month, but compared with today’s news of rival Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 selling 6.5 million units in the U.S. and U.K. in a day, it doesn’t sound quite so good. (Here’s a preview of next month’s NPDs: Call of Duty is number one.) It’s important to note the numbers for Battlefield (or any other game) don’t account for digital sales, of which there were likely many thanks to online-only deals and the perks being offered through Origin.

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PlayStation Vita may not have gone digital-only — it’s not the right time, Sony says — but that won’t help should you want to play your PlayStation Portable’s UMD games on the system. With no UMD slot, those games might as well be Coleco cartridges.

Sony does see a business opportunity here and, as previously reported, will allow UMD game owners to purchase a digital version on Vita. Sony has now offered details on this functionality along with prices for how much those in Japan will be paying to do so.

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Welcome to 1UP Presents #3 — it’s behind schedule, the last issue, and the most expensive. Restrain yourselves. But it’s actually kind of awesome.

A couple months ago, 1UP editor-in-chief Jeremy Parish and I decided that we’d close out our print magazine experiment with the third issue. He started it as a pet project about six months ago, and it never really made much money or practical sense, but it was a fun thing to do on the side, so Jeremy spent many off-work hours organizing the first two issues, and handed me the third.

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Peyton Hillis was a surprise choice for the cover of Madden NFL 12, yet that’s who the fans voted for over the likes of Aaron Rodgers, the controversial Michael Vick, Chris Johnson, and Seattle’s 12th man. Each year it seems like the so-called Madden Curse negatively affects that year’s cover star time and again in a variety of ways. Peyton Hillis appears to be no exception.

Hillis, who is a running back for the Cleveland Browns, has missed the team’s past two games and had not practiced since last week. During practice today, he reportedly re-injured his hamstring, prompting him to slam both the ball and his helmet to the ground.

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Final Fantasy VII is one of the most oft-requested remakes whether you’re talking about Final Fantasy or games in general, but be careful what you wish for: should it ever happen, the game may not end up being just like fans remember it.

Square Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase, who is currently serving as a producer on the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII-2 and was the director of Final Fantasy VII, recently spoke about how he would personally like to approach a remake of VII, should it ever happen. He’s not keen on leaving things just as they are, a stance that could upset diehard fans.

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