Just as I was coming down hard on OXM, and upon receiving my final issue before I let my subscription run out, the editors of the magazine finally came up with an article worth reading: The 20 Best Xbox Games You Never Bought.

I’m not going to list them here, because I encourage even non-Xbox owners hunt down the article and give it a read. But I will mention it is so refreshing to see actual sales counts for titles printed. Many times, the only thing we see are monthly ranks and platinum statuses, the occasional press release applauding a new release or the more-than-often editorial chiding us consumers because we didn’t buy a title we should have. For instance, we all knew that Psychonauts and Advent Rising hurt Majesco, but I never realized just how much those two releases crippled the company: only 57,000 copies of Psychonauts sold for Xbox? And just over 64,000 for Advent Rising? What is also interesting is that serious game-of-the-year candidate Chronicles of Riddick sold a meager 250,000 copies. Crazy!

Check out the July 2006 issue for the complete read. It’s the one with F.E.A.R. on the cover. Kudos OXM crew!