It's not often that a hyped Xbox 360 game fails to win the UK Charts for at least its debut week, but Alan Wake drew the short straw in going up against one of a billion FIFA games to have released recently. As always, Britain's obsession with the absurd sport of soccer has seen the latest FIFA title stay in top position, with Alan Wake relegated to second place.
Lost Planet 2, which we hated, debuts in third place, while Skate 3 comes in at number five. As promotion for Call of Duty: Black Ops gains ground, we also see a reemerging Call of Duty: World at War popping in at fifteenth place. All in all, it's a slightly more interesting UK Chart than we're used to, so hit the jump for the latest.
- 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
- Alan Wake
- Lost Planet 2
- Just Dance
- Skate 3
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Wii Fit Plus
- Wii Sports Resort
- GTA Episodes: Liberty City
- Super Street Fighter IV
- Just Cause 2
- Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Aliens vs. Predator
- Iron Man 2
- James Cameron's New Clothes
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
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10:00 AM on 05.17.2010 | 
I think UYK charts are more interesting than US charts, not only because I'm here! But also because the USA is far more American product centric, with such a huge gap between PS3 and Xbox over there it's almost a given that an Xbox exclusive will do well, where as over here, with the more balanced spread of consoles an exclusive game has got to be really good to outsell multiplats.
Hehehe, say it like her of the 5th elephant, "multiplats?"
lolwut?
Err yeah, minor mistake there Jim.
foot + ball
its not rocket science
EVERYONE STOP CALLING IT SOCCER, THATS AN ORDER!!!!
THIS CANNOT BE, IM LOSING MY GRIP ON THE WILL AND MINDS OF THE MORTALS!!!
Alan, <a href="http://socialworkdegreesonline.net/lcsw-counseling.html">Social worker</a>
Cahuatijo: It's not the fact you guys call it Soccer, it's the fact you call another sport Football that shouldn't be called such a thing.
what?, first off why would you call it soccer?
secondly, you are ripping on someone elses interest without really saying why you think its absurd. eh w.e
Well...blame the Brits. They came up with it.
another fart of Mr. Jim Whale.
So, the name is a reflection of its history, even if the rules have changed a whole lot over the course of history.
Happy to see Alan Wake at number 2, that bodes well at least for the future DLC episodes after the first couple. Now we only have to hope it doesn't take 3 years till the end of the season...
Back on topic, I can't help but wonder how Red Dead Redemption will do in non-North American countries. Is the rest of the world interested in Old West type sceneries?
That was the point.
Italians and Spaniards.
BNP had nothing to lose (seats) to begin with... how exactly did you deliver them a kick to the balls?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8668885.stm
that's seats lost by the BNP.
Margaret Hodge thrashing Nick Griffin for Barking was awesome though.
Nevi covered barking
@ ScaryJim
Nothing to do with unite, local council elections where held along with the national so you got more people putting the 'X' in the box. The BNP vote was drowned, it didn't decrease or change to labour.
next council election they'll be back in
I will agree with this though, Jim, I'm english and I hate my country and countrymen too!
Where are the good games? Oh, yeah. Over there.
Anyway, I'm just going to leave this link here so that next week, maybe we won't have this inane discussion about "football" vs. "soccer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
1. Dtoid story referencing soccer
2. British people saying it's football
3. Americans saying it's soccer and that american football is better
4. British people talk about rugby
5. Americans saying football players are better athletes
6. British people disagree because rugby players don't wear pads
7. Americans bring up WW2
It gets old and yet I can never help myself, especially when I remember both my grandfathers personally flew over to Europe to snatch those limeys from the jaws of Hitler himself, so the least they can do is let me call their stupid sport whatever I want.
It's a god damn shame, at least for me. Now, I have to associated myself with the Grand Old Phail again.
Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer. Soccer.
8.Some smartass wastes his huge level of intelligence makin a list about it instead of curing cancer
9.A second smartass decides to make a really obvious joke about the whole deal
Maybe the title for next week will be James Cameron's Off the Charts as in not appearing.
Trust me as someone who has been ashamed to be english for a few years now, it gets easier.