Harry Potter Swoops Onto UK Chart

A busy week lorded over by the teen wizard.

Movie-comic-movie is how they ended this week as the tie-in to Harry Potter's latest flick went straight into the No. 1 spot in the UK.

Both Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix and Shrek The Third parlayed the attention behind their respective source movies into big sales. The two were split by 2K Games' new game based on Top Cow comic The Darkness, which hit No. 2 despite the delay of the PlayStation 3 version.

Nintendo has clearly learned where the money this weekend the company put out the second Brain Training game. Good placement in stores and an ad campaign starring Hollywood star Nicole Kidman helped both More Brain Training and the original game place in the Top 10.

It's worth pointing out that Britons had a lot to choose from this weekend and a full six new games ended up in the upper half of the Top 40 - unusual for this time of the year.

The Top 20 games for the week ending 30 June, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

1. Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix (EA)
2. The Darkness (2K Games)
3. Shrek The Third (Activision)
4. Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
5. More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
6. Forza Motorsport 2 (Microsoft)
7. Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Disney)
9. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2K Games)
10. Wii Play (Nintendo)
11. Spider-Man 3 (Activision)
12. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
13. Overlord (Codemasters)
14. Colin McRae: Dirt (Codemasters)
15. Cooking Mama (505 Games)
16. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami)
17. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Eidos)
18. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (EA)
19. Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
20. Virtua Tennis 3 (Sega)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo