14 DAY TRIAL // Call of Duty: Black Ops has predictably taken over the number one position in the United Kingdom video game chart, in the process selling better than Modern Warfare 2, which launched around the same time last year, managing to create more than 300 million dollars in revenue for Activision in the UK and in the United States in the first day.
The first person shooter seems poised to become the best sold video game of 2010 and will likely also capture a number of Game of the Year awards, which together with the release of map packs as downloadable content will extend its shelf life.
FIFA 11, the football simulator from EA Sports, has managed to hold on to the second spot in the chart, showing the staying power of the beautiful game just as the fight in the Premier League heats up.
Just Dance 2 from Ubisoft, the sequel to the casual dancing simulator, has managed to go up one spot from fourth to third.
The vacated position is occupied by Kinect Sports, the mini game collection which Microsoft is selling alongside its Kinect motion tracking system in order to show what the new peripheral can do and what kind of gaming experiences it can support.
Last week's number one Football Manager 2011 from Sports Interactive and SEGA has seen a drop of four places to reach fifth in the chart and is followed by another game which has a downward trajectory, Professor Layton and the Lost Future from Nintendo, which has fallen one place.
Fallout: New Vegas manages to hold on to seventh place while depicting the gambling post apocalypse while New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo Wii has went to eight from sixth.
The Sims 3 from EA Sports is in ninth place while Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II closes down the top ten.
Dance Central debuted in thirteenth place while Fable III went from third spot to sixteenth.