Top 10 most expensive video games budgets ever

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# Grand Theft Auto IV - $100 million [1]
# Shenmue - $70 million [2]
# Too Human - $80-100 million
# Tom Clancy - $50 million [3]
# Metal Gear Solid 4 - $50-$70 million (rumor)
# Halo 3 - over $30M, about $60M including promotional costs
# Killzone 2 - ~$40-$60M [4][5][6]
# APB MMO - $50 million budget [7]
# Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - $40-50 million [8]
# Final Fantasy XII: $35 Million
# Tom Clancy MMO - $50 million budget [9]
# Final Fantasy IX - $40M [10]
# Stranglehold - $30m [11]
# Assassin's Creed 2 - $24m [12]
# Crysis - $22m [13]
# Assassin's Creed - $20m [14]
# Lost Planet - $20m to develop, $20m to promote [15]
# Crackdown - $20 million [16]
# Ghostbusters - $15-$20 million[17]
# Half-Life episodes - $12 million each [18]
# Red Steel - $12 million [19]



# Sam & Max episode 1 - $400,000 [20]
# Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 1 - $1 million and 18 months of development [21]
# World of Goo - $96,000 for development[22]

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I really don't know where they get these numbers though.
# Braid - 200K [23]
# Left 4 Dead - marketing cost = $10 million [