Britons Snap Up Brain Training Games

But not fast enough to displace Harry Potter from the top of the charts.

The UK will soon become the intellectual powerhouse of Europe if Britons keep buying so many of Nintendo's Brain Training games.

Not only is the new Wii game, , one of the highest placing newcomers on the chart, but both of the DS games are in the Top 10 too.

Popular as the trio of Brain games are, though, they weren't enough to topple the movie games, lead by Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix, which topped the ranking for a fourth week in a row, and Transformers: The Game, which brings home Michael Bay's toy-inspired new robot movie.

The Darkness is still hanging in there, flying the tattered standard of the hardcore legions. The release of the PlayStation 3 version on Friday nudged the comic-turned-game up a spot.

The Top 20 games for the week ending 21 July, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

1. Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix (EA)
2. Transformers: The Game (Activision)
3. More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
4. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo)
5. Wii Play (Nintendo)
6. Shrek The Third (Activision)
7. The Darkness (2K Games)
8. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
9. Cooking Mama (505 Games)
10. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (EA)
11. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Disney)
12. Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
13. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami)
14. Forza Motorsport 2 (Microsoft)
15. Mario Strikers Charged (Nintendo)
16. Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
17. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Eidos)
18. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar)
19. Spider-Man 3 (Activision)
20. New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo