War – Good for Making Activision money

UK Charts Yes, that game is #1. And yes, that game sold an army boat full of copies – a staggering 1.78 million units in the UK over 5 days, generating £67.4m. The Xbox 360 version alone shifted 1 million copies. Rumours of the DS version selling more than 12 copies are unconfirmed. Wii Fit …

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Take This

UK Charts There’s a big old shuffle in top 10 this week – Wii Fit Plus goes up from #2 to #1 pushing FIFA 10 to #2. Wii Sports Resort climbs from #10 to #3, Football Manager 2010 drops from #1 to# 4 and Dragon Age: Origins goes in at a respectable #5. The next …

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Balls!

UK Charts Three of the games in the top 5 are now football related thanks to Sega’s Football Manager 2010 shooting straight into #1. FIFA 10 remains at #3 while Pro Evo 2010 skids from #1 to #5. The budget priced Wii Fit Plus is the second biggest seller of last week, going in at …

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Go Pro

UK Charts Last year FIFA was at #1 in the top 40 chart for two weeks before being knocked off the top spot by PES. This year it has managed to stay on for a whole week longer. But even though Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 has gone straight to #1, it hasn’t sold as well …

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Uncharted 2: Among FIFAs

UK Charts The high praise that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been receiving has managed to get it into #2 in the chart. FIFA 10 holds onto the top position, with Mario & Sonic at the Winter Games skating in at #5, Brutal Legend at #7 (I bet Activision wish they’d kept hold of it …

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Here Be Dragons

UK Charts There’s oodles of new releases in the top 40 this week with the highest being Codemaster’s Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising at #2. Scribblenauts is at #12 (huzzah!), the turgid Star Wars: Clone Wars – Republic Heroes at #15 (boo!) and the oddly named Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days at #17. Up is doing much …

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Thierry on Wii

UK Charts I think EA might have finally realised that decent games sell better than shit ones – review scores have been glowing for FIFA 10 this year, which have seemingly helped it become the second fastest selling game in the UK so far. True, even if it was on the mediocre side it still …

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Go! Go! Halo!

UK Charts Another week, another new #1. This time it’s the less than full price Halo 3: ODST. Chart Track says it hasn’t sold as many copies has Halo 3 did – which was released exactly this week two years ago – but I doubt that Microsoft are too concerned about that. There’s a new …

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Shifty

UK Charts After just one week at #1 Guitar Hero 5 has been forced off the top spot of the UK top 40 chart. Need for Speed: Shift is the game to do so, with the PlayStation 3 version selling the most copies with 52% of the sales. Xbox 360 takes 44% and PC and …

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Sound Clash

UK Charts Guitar Hero 5 has managed to dislodge the caped crusader off the top of the chart. It’s the first Guitar Hero to go straight to #1 leaving The Beatles: Rock Band to settle for #4, under Colin McRae: Dirt 2 at #2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum at #3. The next new entry in …

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Plane crazy

UK Charts This week’s chart hints that the PSP’s fortunes are on the turn with Dissidia: Final Fantasy entering the top 40 chart at #10. It’s not the highest new entry though – IL2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey has gone in at #6. Here’s what else is going on in the top #10 – Batman …

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Take Bat

UK Charts Eidos will no doubt be popping corks today – Batman: Arkham Asylum has gone straight to the top of the chart. 55% of copies sold were on Xbox 360 and the remaining 45% on PlayStation 3. The PC version isn’t out for a few weeks yet. For some reason Lego Batman has gone …

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Ashes to Ashes

UK Charts England won the Ashes yesterday, but Codemaster’s Ashes Cricket 2009 in no longer #1 having been shoved back to #3 by Wolfenstien – which enters at #2 – and Wii Sports Resort, which goes back to the top of the chart. Madden NFL 10 has left the top 10 already, dropping from #8 …

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Sticky wickets

UK Charts Codemaster’s Ashes Cricket 2009 remains #1 for the second week running. There’s something comforting about seeing a Codemaster’s game at #1. It’s like 1985 all over again. There’s just one new entry in the top 10 – Madden NFL 10 at a surprisingly high #8 – but EA’s own Fight Night Round 4 …

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Totally resorted

UK Charts Just one new entry in the top 40 and a predictable one at that – Wii Sports Resort at a resounding #1. It’s the fourth fastest selling Wii game so far behind Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Mario & Sonic at the Olympics. Interestingly, Grand Slam Tennis – the only other Wii …

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