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Sales of December’s Star Wars: The Old Republic won’t be counted towards the Christmas No.1. Although the game is the last blockbuster release of the year, due on December 20th, it arrives three days too late to be included in the final count, according toGfK Chart-Track. The UK chart tracker …

Modern Warfare 3 is the overwhelming favourite to be this year’s Xmas No.1, leading bookmakers say. Both the ‘official’ odds from betting agent Ladbrokes and those from its rival Paddy Power say the latest Call of Duty will once again be the top game when the last chart before Christmas …

Gears of War 3 is the new UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats No.1 on its first week of release. It has also become the biggest launch of 2011 to date, as well as the seventh largest Xbox 360 launch ever and the 12th largest single platform title launch. It was …

Koch Media’s publishing label Deep Silver scored its first ever No.1 this week with Dead Island. Its victory marks the end of an aggressive campaign by Koch, which started with a cinematic teaser in February. We’ve handled titles that hit No.1 in the UK, but never where we acted as …

The surprise hit of 2011 has continued to deliver as 505 Games’ popular sports title Zumba Fitness has claimed its fourth No.1 on the trot in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s its seventh No.1 in total since the Wii version was released in Chart-Track’s 13th week …

It’s now three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for Rockstar’s ambitious crime caper LA Noire. Behind it Disney’s LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean climbs one place to second with Codemasters’ Dirt 3 doing the opposite. The rest of the Top …

Any worries that PSN downtime might have affected the chances of Bethesda’s new release Brink have been dismissed after the game debuted at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. There’s another new entry right behind it, too – Disney Interactive’s LEGO Pirates of …

Critical favourite Portal 2 is this week’s No.1 according to the latest UKIE charts from GfK Chart-Track. It’s big new release contender, Warner Interactive’s Mortal Kombat, has to settle for second place in its first week of release. There’s also a Top Ten debut for Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Red River, …

After a massive marketing campaign and a huge amountof hype, THQ’s big FPS contender Homefront has debuted at the top of the UKIE games charts compiled by GfK Chart-Track. Last week’s chart winner, EA’s Dragon Age II, slips to second spot ahead of Nintendo’s Pokemon White which also slips one …

As was predicted by pretty much everybody last week, Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has been named as the UK’s official Christmas Number One video game. The game has now sold over 3m copies in the UK, making it one of only three games to top the 100m mark …