Transformers Holds Off Nintendo's Fury

But all in all it's another samey week for the UK.

Sales of the tie-in Transformers game were down again last week but not enough for the wall to break and the Nintendo games behind to come rushing through.

Transformers: The Game has now been the most popular game in the UK for three weeks in a row, no doubt thanks in large part because of the sheer scale of the flick itself.

But it's Nintendo that remains the big story. Wii Play, the mini-game collection that includes a second Wii remote, is again just off the top, following immediately by the more-than-one-year-old original Brain Training game for the DS.

There is one new entry in the Top 20 this week - Purr Pals, THQ's furrier take on the Nintendogs formula.

But change is at hand. Hotly tipped first-person shooter BioShock is out in the UK on Friday, opening up what is going to be a busy few months in the run up to Christmas. For now, though, Britons are content with the same games that have populated the charts for the last month or so.

The Top 20 games for the week ending 18 August, as determined by Chart Track, are below:

1. Transformers: The Game (Activision)
2. Wii Play (Nintendo)
3. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
4. Pokémon Diamond (Nintendo)
5. More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
6. Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix (EA)
7. Pokémon Pearl (Nintendo)
8. Surf's Up (Ubisoft)
9. Cooking Mama (505 Games)
10. New Super Mario Bros (Nintendo)
11. Trauma Centre: Second Opinion (Nintendo)
12. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Disney)
13. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
14. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (Rockstar)
15. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (EA)
16. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (Konami)
17. The Sims 2 (EA)
18. Purr Pals (THQ)
19. The Sims 2: Pets (EA)
20. Shrek The Third (Activision)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo