14 DAY TRIAL // 2013 is almost done, but game sales never really cease and that means FIFA 14 has managed to deliver another solid week in the United Kingdom and is currently the leading title in the official chart before New Year’s Eve.
The EA Sports created experience is in the lead for the second week in a row, after managing to also pick up the top position for Christmas, a very good sign for its long-term sales.
It will be interesting to see whether FIFA 14 has the power to remain in the leading position once 2014 debuts.
Call of Duty: Ghosts, the first-person shooter from developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision, is once more in second place and data from UKIE shows that it only lost the first place by a little over 2,000 copies.
The last place on the United Kingdom podium belongs to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag from Ubisoft, the game that has managed to revive interest in the long-running franchise through its piracy theme and ship-based combat.
Battlefield 4, the shooter from DICE and Electronic Arts, is in fourth place despite the problems that gamers are still reporting and the developer’s inability to fix them all before the end of the year.
Grand Theft Auto V, the game created by Rockstar and published by Take Two, is in fifth place, managing to gain one position for the period that ended on December 28. It is followed by Need for Speed: Rivals, the racing title from EA that has also climbed up two positions.
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes has dropped two places in order to land in seventh, a testament to the long-term appeal of both LEGO bricks and the comic book universe that it uses as a setting.
Just Dance 2014 from Ubisoft is in eight place and Minecraft for the Xbox 360 is in ninth for the final week of 2013.
The United Kingdom video game chart is closed down by Gran Turismo 6.