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Despite all the economic mishaps, Nintendo has had a pretty good year for sales — particularly at Amazon.com. The online retailer released a list of their top sellers for the year, which includes both hardware and software. Of the top 10 alone, Nintendo claimed nine spots.

1. Wii
2. Wii Remote
3. Wii Motion Plus
4. Wii Nunchuck
5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
6. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board
7. Wii Sports Resort
8. Wii Fit
9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (360)
10. Mario Kart Wii with Wheel
11. PS3 DualShock controller
12. Wii Play with Remote
13. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
14.Official Wii Wheel
15. Assassin’s Creed 2 (360)
16. Halo 3 ODST
17. PlayStation 3 120 GB
18. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
19. EA Sports Active
20. Left 4 Dead 2 (360)

Steam’s holiday sale ends in 18 hours, so if you’re looking for some major bargains, be sure to check them out quick. Shattered Horizon is going for $5, Street Fighter IV is $10, and there are also more titles going for 75% off, as well as many for 50% off.

Atlus is having a pretty sweet contest going on, and all you have to do is join their mailing list. Check out their contest here!

The first post-release downloadable add-on for BioWare’s fantasy RPG Dragon Age will hit PC and Xbox 360 next Tuesday, January 5, the developer and publisher / studio owner Electronic Arts announced today.

Priced at 400 BioWare Points / 400 Microsoft Points / $4.99, “Return to Ostagar” brings players “to the fateful battleground in Ostagar where the Grey Wardens were nearly wiped out,” offering up new items, more darkspawn to kill, and “a second chance to add Dog to your party” in the process.

The add-on is also coming to PlayStation 3 eventually, with today’s announcement simply noting that the PlayStation 3 release is expected “later in the month.”

Torrent Freak has reported the most pirated games of 2009, based on statistics from BitTorrent’s public tracker. The top PC games downloaded on BitTorrent in 2009 were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (4,100,000), The Sims 3 (3,200,000), Prototype (2,350,000), Need for Speed Shift (2,100,000), Street Fighter 4 (1,850,000). For the Xbox 360, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (970,000), Street Figther 4 (840,000), Prototype (810,000), Dirt 2 (790,000), UFC 2009 Undisputed (720,000).

Capcom has announced in a financial report that they’ve “made the strategic decision to postpone the launch of titles that were scheduled for the 4th quarter of the current fiscal year”. The delayed games include: Dead Rising 2, Lost Planet 2, Monster Hunter Tri, and Super Street Fighter IV.

Further more, as for the cause of the shuffle, Capcom cited “rapid changes in the market conditions caused primarily by the 4th quarter introduction by competitors of a large number of new games.” The earliest to expect any of these games now is in April.

“The next few years should see a strong resurgence in Duke,” 3D Realms Scott Miller states in the first printed issue of Gamesauce. “There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production.”

Likely among those projects are the two remaining Duke iPhone games previously promised by Miller, the handheld Duke Nukem Trilogy coming to Nintendo DS and PSP via Frontline Studios, and the rumored Xbox Live Arcade port of Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. In addition, Gearbox was working on an all-new entry dubbed “Duke Begins,” though it had “been halted” as of July 2009.

Chiming in with its take on the season, id has updated its free-to-play multiplayer shooter Quake Live with an appropriately decorated map and two festive characters.

“Silent Night” is a 32-player Capture the Flag arena. However, the holiday cheer isn’t limited to just Capture the Flag, as Santa and “festive helper Vixen” are now playable in all game types. The celebration runs until January 5, 2010.

A new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 patch has hit PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, bringing changes including a rebalancing of the notorious akimbo Model 1887 shotguns.

Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling gives the following quick summary of the patch’s changes, while he promises on Twitter that full notes that for this and all previous patches will be released “most likely after Holidays.”

The changes made include: 1887s Balanced, Public “private” Match fix, Infinite Ammo fix, Prestige Hack on PS3 fix, Texture Hack on PC fix (eliminates any edits to IWD files also).

Open your Games for Windows Live client (or download it from here if you don’t already have it installed) and you’ll be able to find the following games for half price: Osmos ($4.99), Shadowrun ($9.99), Viva Pinata ($9.99), Mahjong Wisdom ($4.99), Where’s Waldo: The Fantastic Journey ($7.49), and World of Goo ($9.99). Each game comes Live-enabled and has Achievements, which is sure to be attractive to some but isn’t nearly the strong selling point for a game on PC as it is on Xbox 360.

Steam’s holiday sale has kicked off a little early this year, with all kinds of tempting deals. Like Mirror’s Edge for $5, GTAIV for $7.50 and Defense Grid for $2.50. There are plenty more great deals listed (50% off all Ubisoft games, an Eidos pack with Batman, Mini Ninjas, Deus Ex and Hitman), and plenty more to come until the sale ends on Sunday, January 3.