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Gamers Flock to Dead Island's Shores

12/Sep/2011

We’ve not had 4 new releases in the Top 10 since week 13 this year (with the launch of ‘Zumba Fitness’ on Wii and multi-format titles ‘Shift 2: Unleashed’, ‘Tiger Woods PGA 12’ & ‘WWE All Stars’), but this week even sees 3 new titles within the Top 5.


Debuting at No1 is Deep Silver/Koch’s highly anticipated ‘Dead Island’ for 360/PS3/PC from Polish indie developer Techland (also recently in the charts with ‘Call of Juarez: The Cartel’ 360/PS3-PC version new this week). Debuting at No2 is THQ’s 360/PS3/PC ‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine’ from THQ Dawn of War/Company of Heroes studio Relic. Interestingly, PC retail sales for ‘Space Marine’ are higher than those for ‘Dead Island’, which may have something to do with the fact that the THQ title was not available on the UK Steam site at launch. Ubisoft’s ‘Driver: San Francisco’ drops 1 place to No3 (-6%), whilst new at No4 is Sony’s ‘Resistance 3’ for PS3, developed as usual by Insomniac and is the first in the series to feature 3D and Move support. Last week’s No1, Square-Enix’s ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ drops to No5 (-60%) and the final new release within the Top 10 is Nintendo’s ‘Star Fox 64 3D’ for 3DS, debuting at No9. Also new this week is EA’s ‘NHL 12’ at No12 and Kinect PEGI 18 horror ‘Rise of Nightmares’ from Sega at No37.

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  TW     Title Format Label Publisher
- 1     DEAD ISLAND XB360 DEEP SILVER KOCH MEDIA
- 2     RESISTANCE 3 PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
- 3     DEAD ISLAND PS3 DEEP SILVER KOCH MEDIA
- 4     WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE XB360 THQ THQ
3 5     DRIVER: SAN FRANCISCO XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
2 6     ZUMBA FITNESS WII 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
5 7     DRIVER: SAN FRANCISCO PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
1 8     DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION XB360 EIDOS SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
- 9     WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE PS3 THQ THQ
4 10     DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION PS3 EIDOS SQUARE ENIX EUROPE
- 11     STAR FOX 64 3D 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
6 12     RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011 XB360 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
- 13     GRAN TURISMO 5 PS3 PLATINUM SONY COMPUTER ENT.
7 14     RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011 PS3 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
- 15     WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE PC THQ THQ
9 16     JUST DANCE 2 WII UBISOFT UBISOFT
- 17     DEAD ISLAND PC DEEP SILVER KOCH MEDIA
10 18     WII SPORTS RESORT WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
12 19     THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME 3D 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
19 20     LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN WII DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
14 21     MARIO KART WII WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
- 22     NHL 12 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
37 23     LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN XB360 DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
- 24     RISE OF NIGHTMARES XB360 SEGA SEGA
21 25     XENOBLADE CHRONICLES WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
24 26     WII FIT PLUS WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
18 27     DIRT 3 XB360 CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS
22 28     JUST DANCE 2: EXTRA SONGS WII UBISOFT UBISOFT
8 29     MADDEN NFL 12 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
39 30     LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN DS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
13 31     MADDEN NFL 12 PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
35 32     RED DEAD REDEMPTION PS3 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
25 33     BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 XB360 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
- 34     HOMEFRONT XB360 THQ THQ
32 35     THE SIMS 3 PC EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
- 36     RED DEAD REDEMPTION XB360 XBOX 360 CLASSICS TAKE 2
- 37     NHL 12 PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
31 38     DUKE NUKEM FOREVER XB360 2K GAMES TAKE 2
15 39     CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
30 40     ASSASSIN'S CREED: BROTHERHOOD XB360 XBOX 360 CLASSICS UBISOFT