Lost Loses Out to Mario and Sonic

And the 20-month-old Brain Training does even better.

Lost: The Video Game, the tie-in to the hit TV series, missed out on the overall No. 1 spot in the weekly UK sales rankings, but it was the most popular game on the PlayStation 3. Ubisoft's game was the first of several new games making it to retail over the past week.

Not far behind Lost was Frontlines: Fuel of War, the new war-game from THQ, which ended up at the head of the Xbox 360 chart, slightly ahead of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's second Xbox 360-exclusive RPG Lost Odyssey.

Try as they may, though, these games have not been able to unseat Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, which is on top of the overall chart for a third week in a row.

In at No. 2 this week is a regular face, Dr Kawashima's Brain Training, which is being helped along by omnipresent advertising in the run up to Mother's Day. The game is being sold in a bundle with the DS Lite hardware, a strategy that has seen sales of the already-hot system jump by 24 per cent, according to research firm Chart Track.

Below are the Top 20 games across all formats for the week ending 1 March, as determined by Chart Track:

1. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
2. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo)
3. Lost: The Video Game (Ubisoft)
4. Frontlines: Fuel of War (THQ)
5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
6. Lost Odyssey (Microsoft)
7. More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima (Nintendo)
8. FIFA Street 3 (EA)
9. Pro Evolution Soccer 3 (Konami)
10. The Sims 2: Freetime (EA)
11. Sight Training (Nintendo)
12. Professor Kageyama's Math Training (Nintendo)
13. Game Party (Midway)
14. Unreal Tournament III (Midway)
15. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
16. Cooking Mama 2 (505 Games)
17. FIFA 08 (EA)
18. Turok (Disney)
19. PDC World Championship Darts '08 (Oxygen)
20. Burnout Paradise (EA)

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo