Nielsen GamePlay Metrics, a new system from the company that introduced the all-important television tracking system back in the 1940's, has just released their first batch of data on PC game usage for the month of June, and who came out on top may astound you. Okay, so it completely won't astound you that World of Warcraft came out on top with an average of 17 hours played a week, doubling that of its closest competitor, Halo: Combat Evolved with only 8.5 hours played per week. As you can see from the chart, most of the titles are more enduring, older games than hot new PC titles. An interesting look at PC game usage, though I suggest they save the table template with WoW at the top just to make things easier on themselves for the foreseeable future.

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