UK Video Game Chart: Cataclysm Challenges FIFA

Auntie didn't like it, but the UK caught World of Warcraft fever again last week as the Cataclysm expansion pack launched to a nation of recovering addicts. Unfortunately for the BBC, it seems such MMO dependance isn't as strong as initially suspected - the add-on couldn't quite top the UK Video Game Chart, settling for #3 underneath Black Ops and FIFA 11.

{1} - 1 - Call of Duty: Black Ops - Activision
{2} - 2 - FIFA 11 - EA
{NE} - 3 - World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - Blizzard
{3} - 4 - Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood - Ubisoft
{4} - 5 - Gran Turismo 5 - Sony
{5} - 6 - Just Dance 2 - Ubisoft
{7} - 7 - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - EA
{NE} - 8 - Donkey Kong Country Returns - Nintendo
{10} - 9 - Professor Layton and the Lost Future - Nintendo
{9} - 10 - Wii Fit Plus - Nintendo

(Last week's position in fancy squiggly brackets - lo-tech is the best-tech)

Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country Returns was the only other new entry into the Top 10 this week, cannon-barrelling its way to #8. We're almost certain the banana initiative helped, there. As for the rest of the chart, it's business as usual from last week - Call of Duty's still #1, FIFA and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit are non-movers and everything in-between is shuffled around a position to make room for Cataclysm.

Now that almost every single game that wants to get released in 2010 is finally released, the race is on for Christmas #1. Call of Duty clinched it last year - could 2010 be Activision's year once more?