UK Charts

Sales on the high street, specifically at Game and GameStation, have seen dozens of titles climb back up the chart – Modern Warfare 2 is up from #9 to #3, Alien Vs Predator goes from #21 to #15 and Wolfenstien is back at #38 due to being cut to £9.99 at the former retailer. Invizimals on PSP makes a surprise appearance at #28 thanks to also being heavily discounted – £9.99 at GameStation with the PSP camera, if memory serves.

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa - to give it’s full and correct title – is still #1 though and Just Dance is at up one place at #2 pushing Super Street Fighter IV down to #6. Iron Man 2 rises up from #20 to #12 now that the slightly lacking movie is out while Wario Ware DIY is the only new entry at #24.

The Wii’s big white hope Monster Hunter Tri had a bad week, dropping from #12 to #26.

UK Charts

Publishers – if want your new videogame to sell, simply stick the word ‘just’ in the title – Just Dance has gone back to the top of the top 40 chart this week, while Just Cause 2 drops to #2.

New DLC for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has helped it go back up from #6 to #4. I had another bash on the online mode the other day. I’m still deeply rubbish – 6 kills was my highest over the space of several games.

Both Pokemon: Soulsilver and Pokemon: Heartgold are still in the top 10 at #5 and #7 respectively but God of War III and Final Fantasy XIII have now left the top 10. Metro 2033 is the biggest faller of the week, dropping from #14 to #32. If retailers cut the price to £20 or so, it could very well skyrocket back up though.

UK Charts

Raise your hands in the air like you just don’t mind – Just Dance is #1 for the second week running. It’s now the first Ubisoft game since the original Assassin’s Creed to hold onto the top spot for more than one week. The knowledgeable bods at Chart Track also point out that the top 10 chart is made up of games from only three different publishers this week with Nintendo publishing no less than four of them.

Predictably, Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero doesn’t enter the top 40. The best it can do is a #31 placing in the Wii budget chart. Dark Void – also by Capcom – fares better, going in at #33 in the multiformat chart. It’s at #16 in the PlayStation 3 chart and #17 in the Xbox 360 chart. Seeing reviews have mostly been around the 6/10 mark that doesn’t seem too bad to me.

UK Charts

Shock! Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been knocked of its loft perch by Just Dance. If it wasn’t for Ubisoft’s uber rubbish dancing game then Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would have been at the top of the chart for 10 weeks straight. Incidentally, Just Dance is Ubisoft’s first #1 since Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 way back in March 2008.

The much improved sequel Army of Two: The 40th Day is the only new entry in the chart at a respectable #4. Bayonetta has dropped from #5 to #7 while Darksiders has risen in its second week of release and goes up from #8 to #6.

It’s also pleasing to note that Borderlands is back on the rise, going from #23 to #13. It has been something of a steady seller, which pretty much guarantees that a sequel will appear somewhen.

UK Charts

It’s Monday, which means it’s chart time here on GamesAsylum. Let’s see how Bayonetta and Darksiders did, shall we? Yes!

It certainly looks like THQ’s decision to hold Darksiders back until after the Xmas rush was a wise one – it has managed to get to #8 in the all formats top 40. Sega’s Bayonetta does even better, dashing in at #5.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is still #1, which makes it the 9th week running. Chart Track also point out that it has already become the third best selling game in the UK ever. I’m willing to bet that within the next six month it’ll end up being either the second best, or possibly best ever. Brain Training on DS and GTA: San Andreas hold the first and second positions, if you’re wondering.

The rest of the top 10 has had a good old shuffle this week – the rubbish Just Dance is up from #7 to #3, Wii Fit Plus is up from #5 to #2, Assassin’s Creed 2 drops from #2 to #7 while Mario & Sonic at the Winter Games also slides all the way from #3 to #11.

UK Charts

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was the only decent game out last week, so I wasn’t expecting much action in the top 10 chart this week. Something very odd has happened though – Ubisoft’s Just Dance has gone all the way from #30 to #8. Reviews have been appalling – the average review score currently stands at 35% – so I’m guessing that it has been advertised on TV or something.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is still #1, while James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game is doing better in its second week of release now at #29. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks misses out of a top 10 ranking, having to make do with #12.

The chance of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being Christmas #1? Almost a dead cert I’d say. Unless even more morons buy Just Dance…