Doug Lombardi has revealed to CVG that there is a desire within Valve to make a Wii game, and there is also an interest in making an MMO RPG.

“I mean, I’m not making any announcements”, he continued, “but there’s a lot of desire internally to do something for kids, do something on the Wii.”

Valve has also taken a shine to the MMO scene: “Gabe (Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell) is a huge fan of MMO RPGs and he’s always wanted to make one,” Lombardi said.

This all stems from Valve’s plans to move further out of their comfort zone and try something new. However Lombardi also reveals that if anything happens, we won’t see it for a few years.

The CVG interview with Lombardi should be arriving soon, but for now head here for the latest on the Wii issue.

EA have gone to the unusual effort of gathering up European Hardware Sales for the past two years, and takes a look ahead at 2008. It must be noted that the figures they have gathered for the European market can not be 100% verified. The European market tracking companies, ChartTrack and GfK keep their data closed and only reveal the information for a fee. This is unlike the US and Japanese markets which openly provide sales figures.

However, with the company basing their findings on the “limited information currently available” we can not be sure that the information has been gathered from ChartTrack or GfK sources. The information they have gathered is nevertheless interesting reading.

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