Mario Party Makes UK Chart Despite Controversy

And Harry Potter enjoys another week on top.

Did you really think it would have turned out any differently? With the young wizard's new movie just hitting cinemas across the UK and the concluding chapter in the long running series headed to bookstores, Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix made short work of the competition, taking first place on the UK chart for the third week in a row.

That's one story. The other is Nintendo. The company is coming off a good showing at the E3 Media & Business Summit last week where it got a lot of attention from the mainstream press. The charts are an echo chamber of that enthusiasm.

Nintendo has four exclusive games in the first six places on the chart this week, lead by the surging More Brain Training for the DS. Nintendo issued a recall over the weekend for Mario Party 8, but not before the Wii game sold enough copies to nab the No. 5 spot this week.

The Top 20 games for the week ending 14 July, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

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

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo