As predicted, Lego Indiana Jones has managed to shift GTA IV from its lofty perch atop the top 40 chart. The Wii version has shifted the most copies so far, followed by Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and DS.

Ninja Gaiden II goes in at #6, Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit at a shocking high #11, while Sports Island on Wii also goes in at a surprisingly high #14. Atari must be happy about Dragon Ball Z - they haven’t had much success of late.

Word of Haze not living up to expectations seems to be spreading, causing it to drop from #6 to #15. Sega Superstars Tennis has also fallen from #7 to #16, while Rock Band drops like a medium-weight rock from #12 to #20. Big Brain Academy - which made a re-entry at #18 last week - now sits at #38. Looks like Nintendo have got round to making more copies of Link’s Crossbow Training though - it’s back in at #24.

I bet UEFA Euro 2008 wouldn’t be at a lowly #19 in the chart if the England team had managed to get through the qualifiers.

Forbes is telling us that Apple could be about to kill the Nintendo DS with the iPhone. It’s a reasonably well-balanced discussion, but bafflingly misses one massively important factor in Nintendo’s success: first-party Nintendo games.

It makes me want to punch a hole in my monitor, reach down the internet, and slap the writer about the face with a pad of promotional branded Post-it notes.

Danish Primary Coloured Brick Indiana Jones - or Lego Indiana Jones, for short - doesn’t appear to be up to the standard of Lego Star Wars. GamesRadar gave it at 5 while Eurogamer liked it a bit more, awarding it at 7. Ninja Gaiden II has been getting mixed reviews too, but then so did the original. There’s a demo on Xbox Live, so give that a go before opening your wallet.

The rest of the week’s releases are a real bunch of odds and sods - there’s Everybody’s Golf 2 on PSP, Sports Island on Wii, the budget priced Lost Planet: Colonies Edition on Xbox 360 and Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The DS gets yet another RPG, this time in the form of Etrain Odyssey which is being published by Nintendo themselves.

Next week: Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!

Puzzle Quest is a game with a lot of fans, but it would seem that not all of them are content. During a recent unveiling of their next game - Neopets Puzzle Adventure - CEO Steve Fawkner revealed that a bug in the PSP version led to developers Infinite Interactive receiving death threats.

Six, in fact, and one bomb scare. Fawkner didn’t feel the need to report them to the authorities though - the idiots had left their e-mail address on the threats, and all of which were sent from the US whereas Infinite Interactive is based in Australia.

Why were they playing it on PSP anyway? The DS iteration is the version of choice.

There’s an article in Word magazine (I refuse to call it ‘The Word’, as it’s now called, because that’s stupid) this month about Guitar Hero. It’s entirely in praise of the game, obviously, because it’s excellent. And I say that as someone who’s rubbish at the game - and indeed all games which require any sort of rhythmic ability.

But what the article points out is that Guitar Hero has cast a fresh new light on emulating classic rock bands, and brought playing the guitar out of the bedroom. It has given a new lease of life to rock dinosaurs like Foghat, introduced them to a new generation, maybe even made them ‘cool’.

When did this happen? When did games contribute to making something more socially acceptable? These are crazy days we live in. Not to mention crazy (crazy crazy crazy) nights…

Race Driver: GRID gets off to a good start going into the top 40 at a respectable #2. Grand Theft Auto IV stays at the top, Haze drops from #3 to #6 while Rock Band also drops from #6 to #12. Sega Superstars Tennis and Call of Duty 4 are back into top 10 at #7 and #9 respectively. PC social life stealer Age of Conan, which went in at #2, has fallen to #16. And people say that the PC gaming scene isn’t dying.

The only other new entry is Quake Wars at #15. That providing we ignore Princess on Ice going in at #23 in the DS chart. Speed Racer and Top Trumps: Dr Who have now both exited the top 40 all together. Rather them in the chart than Imagine: Babies.

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree has done a big turn around shooting up from #38 to #18. Wii Fit is still sold out, so that’s a no show. Boom Blox is back on the rise, but only slightly - it was at #30, and is now at #26.

Will Lego Indiana Jones or Ninja Gaiden II be able to shift GTA IV? We’ll find out in seven days time.

I love call centres. They’re so very, very helpful. Especially when you have what seems to be an uncommon problem.

My Xbox 360 goes a bit mental after about five minutes, distorting the display so that you can still sort of see what’s going on, but it’s all horribly pixellated, and generally a bit broken. It took 25 minutes to try to explain this to the Xbox support centre, and even then they didn’t really understand, mainly because the screen doesn’t freeze or go blank. No matter how many times they asked.

Evidently it’s what they’re used to: their system froze at least twice processing my support request. Brilliant! It shouldn’t be surprising, but it’s still disappointing that Microsoft are so very, very rubbish.

A slow system creates another problem: small talk. “What’s your favourite game?” “Do you have any kids?” I realise that working in a call centre for Microsoft must be a soul-destroying experience, but when you’re failing to understand my problem, I’m not really in the mood for talking about Grand Theft Auto, even if you have got the PC version of Vice City.

All of this is stopping me from playing Race Driver: GRID. I do like the fact that you can choose what your lady guide calls you though, and the fact that ‘Jake’ is one of the options. Very good. Now I’ve just got to wait a few weeks before I can play it properly.

???????? ????? ????????I love the Daily Mail. Well, not love. I mean I like it. Well not like it. I’m ambivalent to the Daily Mail, well not ambivalent as such. I despise the Daily Mail.

However sometimes they are so wrong that they’re funny. Like Hitler, or Lithuania’s entry into the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.

“Al-Qaeda’s terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack” warns the Daily Mail article, written by the faintly amusingly named Barry Wigmore. In the article the Wigmeister, as his friends surely call him, writes about a picture of an apocalyptic Washington, the White House burned and destroyed in a nuclear attack. Apparently created by terrorists in order to recruit more into their ranks, the picture stands as a timely reminder of the world we live in today and the evils that Al Qaeda want to unleash.

Except that the picture is concept art from Fallout 3. The game, set in 2277, takes place in post-apocalyptic United States and comes out next year on both Xbox 360 and PS3.

While Ubisoft continue to employ increasingly complicated subtitles, Codemasters seem to be keen on simple, four-letter subtitles. First Colin McRae: DiRT, and now Race Driver: GRID. I approve.

Further, I suggest that this pattern should continue. For example, their fancy new license could be used for Formula One: FAST. And everyone except me seems to want him to make a comeback, so how about Dizzy: CUNT?

Just two games of note this week - Race Driver: GRID and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Looks like the DS version of GRID isn’t out for another month yet. You didn’t know there was a DS version? Oh!

On Wii there are another couple of rubbish budget games from the people behind Ninjabread Man. This time it’s London Taxi: Rush Hour and Kidz Sports International Football. Great. Activision has also slipped out Monster Jam on Wii, DS and Xbox 360, which sadly has nothing to do with fruit preserves.

Next week: Ninja Gaiden II, Lego Indiana Jones, Everybody’s Golf 2 and some Dragon Ball Z thing.

This is a little batshit crazy. Thankfully it seems fairly tongue in cheek, though just the idea of Guitar Hero on the DS with a hand grip add-on sounds hugely embarrassing.

Afrika was one of the first PlayStation 3 games to be shown, and not only is it still yet to be released, but it’s also still not clear what the game entails. It’s fair to say that it’s either going to be about hunting wild animals or taking photos of them though.

Sony has now confirmed that when it is finally finished it won’t be appearing in Europe. Which is a shame as the PlayStation 3 certainly needs more games that are a little bit different to the usual assortment. The delay is a complete mystery as going by this video it doesn’t look like a particularly complex game. Maybe Sony are trying too hard to recreate virtual elephant dung…