14 DAY TRIAL // FIFA 12, the football simulation created by EA Sports, has managed to return to the top of the United Kingdom video game chart for the week that ended on June 16, and the game has the potential to stay up there until August rolls around and the big launches of the fall season start to arrive.
FIFA 12 had previously occupied the third spot in the United Kingdom chart and its three places jump might be linked to the Euro 2012 tournament that is now taking place in Ukraine and in Poland and is covered in the football simulation via a hefty, if incomplete, piece of downloadable content.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the third-person shooter from publisher Ubisoft, has slipped one place in order to reach second place, while the last position on the podium has been occupied by Max Payne 3, which has also dropped one place.
The first new release in the United Kingdom chart is Lollipop Chainsaw, from Warner Bros. Interactive, which managed to occupy fourth place on launch.
Battlefield 3, the first-person shooter from DICE and Electronic Arts, continues to perform well after the introduction of the new Premium service and is in fifth, one place down over the previous week, while Diablo III is in sixth place after breaking records during its first month worldwide to sell more than 6.3 million copies.
Game of Thrones, the action and role-playing game from Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive, is in seventh place, losing one position, and Sniper Elite V2, from 505 Games, is in eight place and sees the biggest slide of the week, down from fifth.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games continues to stay put in ninth while DiRT Showdown, the arcade racing game from Codemasters, closes down the top ten.