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UK Charts: Harry Potter makes his Satanic way to the top photo

It should come as no surprise that Harry Potter has become the UK's top selling game this past week. Despite being a poorly written children's book, and later a rather boring movie, JK Rowling's tale of a bespectacled little magic sh*thead has become an icon among fully-grown adults and the original target audience alike, for reasons that I'll never comprehend. Ah well.

Outside of Harry Potter's debut, there really isn't anything else. Transformers is still there, as is Wii Fit, Fight Night, World at War. You know the drill by now. Hit the jump to read the latest UK Charts.

  1. Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
  2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  3. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
  4. Wii Fit
  5. Fight Night Round 4
  6. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
  7. The Sims 3
  8. Virtua Tennis 2009
  9. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  10. EA Sports Active
  11. Mario Kart Wii
  12. Professor Layton and the Curious Village
  13. Prototype
  14. Fifa 09
  15. Call of Duty: World at War
  16. UFC 2009: Undisputed
  17. Grand Slam Tennis
  18. Wii Play
  19. Pokémon Platinum
  20. Guitar Hero: World Tour







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VashTS's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:09
VashTS
harry potter....ew
ChaosTeaCup's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:21
ChaosTeaCup
Dude's had all his acne airbrushed out.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:23
Chronic Logic
Hang in there Prototype!
phantomile's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:28
phantomile
Everything you write sounds so much better when I read it in your voice.

And yeah, Harry Potter is boring as all hell.
Black Nexus's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:35
Black Nexus
Wii fit went up again, ugh.
Ezruh's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:42
Ezruh
I would say the games are shitty, and the movies are pretty boring. However the books are quite well written, TYVM, you snide penguin-like muffin-man.

This comment, however, is not.
Dimly's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 11:45
Dimly
Hey Jim, looks like you finally got around to the male side of Hot or Not after your Morphine Nation article.

Oh my, you weren't kidding about the doozies that male entrants have. I don't know what's better, the ridiculous hat or the shooped acne.
Bastard Spawn's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 12:02
Bastard Spawn
Just like with THE VIDEO GAME SHOW WHAT I'VE DONE, I'm not sure if you're just being serious or a cheeky little so and so.
Kaden101's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 12:08
Kaden101
Hey Jim,

Nothing wrong with the books. I can understand if they're not your cuppa tea, but to say they are poorly written is not right.

The films are a disgrace & are only loosely based on the books, & the games are a waste of space.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 12:13
Jim Sterling
"Nothing wrong with the books. I can understand if they're not your cuppa tea, but to say they are poorly written is not right. "

I read an excerpt, and the only thing that made it bearable was the fact that someone replaced the word "wand" with "wang."
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 12:16
-PL-
That is one airbrushed up chav.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 12:21
Jon B
Given my name, I find it ironic that I'm the one posting it. Heh.

#111338 +(14099)- [X]
<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...

<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 14:06
Holyetheline
Yeah I don't understand why people love HP either.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 15:56
Kyousuke Nanbu
Its understandable why Jim would hate HP being a brit, its just jealousy, Rowling has tons of money and can do pretty much whatever she wants VS Jim who writes shitty articles and his biggest claim to fame is the horrible meme of blatantly better he keeps trying to push.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 16:43
Jim Sterling
Its understandable why Kyousuke would hate me being a troll, its just jealousy. This is where I would also parody his comparison between me and Rowling, but while on my side of the fence I can think of a good career that is paying for my car and house, I can't think of a single thing Kyousuke has ever done, apart from that time he had to apologize to the Dtoid community for being a little bitch.

That's kind of where the spoof falls apart, you see.
braulio09's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 16:50
braulio09
"I read an excerpt, and the only thing that made it bearable was the fact that someone replaced the word "wand" with 'wang.'"

Oh, that makes sense. Replacing words for others leaves the message completely untouched and as such is a perfect alternative to measure a book's merits.

You, sir, can be such a child about so many things. It's not that I've never disagreed with you, but this constant childish behavior when faced with serious, non-inflamatory comments from long-time members is simply ridiculous.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 17:01
Jim Sterling
"You, sir, can be such a child about so many things. It's not that I've never disagreed with you, but this constant childish behavior when faced with serious, non-inflamatory comments from long-time members is simply ridiculous."

Dude, I wasn't trying to be petulant. I'm serious. I was all, "Man, even with the wang stuff added, this still isn't very good." I understand it's a children's book and as such, is written for children. Still doesn't explain why adults get so into the books. Not to mention how defensive they get.
OldSkull's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2009 17:23
OldSkull
Oh,c´mon Jim! Everybody knows that you´re damn right: Harry Potter is for retards(children and adults) that can´t understand Tolkien or any other good fantasy book...so HP books are good because they´re sold out?fuck, Britney spears also made a lot of money with that shit-made-music and it doesn´t give that cunt the right to still breath...sorry, I had a bad day... LOL
Kaden101's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/21/2009 00:49
Kaden101
Tolkien!...that's a nice bit of light casual reading. If you want to read something that you really need to concentrate on, try Stephen Donaldson:The Chronicles of Thomas Convenant. Now there's a time taker, & I still think the Harry Potter books are good. The 1st couple were purely for children, but the books have grown up with the people who started reading them as kid. I'm not saying Rowling is technically a great writer, but some books are purely about the story & not the grammar.

There's no defending the film/game franchises though...ever.
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