Three new launch titles managed to claim the top three spots on the UK Top Ten this week, with Call of Duty: World at War simultaneously attaining the No. 1 spot and becoming the UK’s 3rd fastest selling game of all time (1st and 2nd go to GTA IV and GTA: San Andreas respectively).

World at War has surprisingly managed to outsell its predecessor, Modern Warfare, at least in terms of sales to date. I’m a little stunned considering the massive strides forward COD4 made, whereas WAW is merely the same engine with a lick of paint, astonishing.

No.2 is World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, which is apparently the fastest selling PC title in the UK, not that I give a flying shit.

Fifa ’09, the behemoth of UK gaming is currently sitting at number 5, don’t expect a massive drop anytime soon either. Guitar Hero: World Tour, has moved up to No. 6, as THQ have released the complete instrument packages. I’m amazed that this, and Rock Band sell as well as they do considering the UK is being royally butt-fucked with regards to prices. Luckily the PS3 is not region locked so users can purchase a US one for almost half the price

Mario Kart Wii sits at number 8. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 stays at 9, while WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2009 drops to tenth.

The full UK top ten follows below:

1.Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard)
2.World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Activision Blizzard)
3.Football Manager 2009 (SEGA)
4.Gears of War 2 (Microsoft)
5.Fifa 09 (EA)
6.Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)
7.Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo)
8.Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
9.Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami)
10.WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2009 (THQ)

This weeks charts also include the laughable debut entry of Wii Music at No. 16 – seriously, what an awful piece of software. I could perhaps understand its place in the market if other peripheral based music games had not been released, but someone actually green lighted the concept of “pretending” to play instruments. What the fuck?
Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero World Tour give you something akin to the real deal, Wii music is a joke.

Surprisingly, Mirror’s Edge debuts at No. 20, which may climb, but considering the evolution it brings to traditional first person games it’s disappointing to see it chart so low. The fat person’s new best friend, Wii Fit, has dropped to No. 12, this time NOT due to hardware shortages, but instead due to novelty value shortages – expect this to power back up the charts come Christmas.

Fallout 3, this years best game, has dropped to No. 14, and in another huge surprise (for me at least) LittleBigPlanet has dropped to number 19 from 4 last week. The most innovative games package of the year not selling its way to a well deserved top spot is a fucking travesty. Look at the top ten, and tell me what is in there that deserves to be over Fallout 3 and LBP. Because I can’t see it.

OK, so we finally have news as to what the game advertised on this website is.

And it appears that it will be called “Blood of Bahamut” a JRPG for the Nintendo DS.

Now with regards to scans, and artwork, it does look fantastic using 2D sprites on fully actualised 3D backgrounds giving the impression of full 3D (as opposed to pre-rendered environments such as Final Fantasy 7 on the Playstation) and looks to be using the DS technical capabilities to the maximum.

Some game information is as follows:

- The game will feature two protagonists Ibuki and Yui.
- They live in a fortified city built on the back of a giant.
- The giant will wake up during an enemy attack, our heroes must fight and defend their city.
- Cooperative multiplayer mode for up to four players locally available.
- The game will be presented at Jump Festa expo in Japan at the end of the year.

Personally, I am little disappointed that it isn’t something a little more epic. I would have loved SE to come up with a new IP for the PS3. Dawg.

I read a superb report on the BBC regarding a raid on an massive internet spam gang.

Apparently a gang has been shut down and reports have been flying in stating that spam has pretty much immediately decreased by 70%, worldwide.

I fucking hate spam, and gladly welcomed this news, but unfortunately it seems without a conviction to put these people away they will simply move the networks to places with looser security.

Most of it is just an irritation because as soon as you get the email telling you you have won a fortune in a South African lottery, you delete it, and as such you might wonder why spammers actually bother at all when the majority of people identify it for the utter load of bollocks that it is.

That’s where this startling statistic comes in:

A recent study by computer scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) found that spammers manage to turn a profit despite only getting one response to every 12.5 MILLION emails they send

Crikey.

Now, I don’t know what in God’s name Square Enix are advertising with this teaser on this website, but it looks fucking heavy.

I have no idea what they are planning, kotaku believe it may be a Bahamut Lagoon remake

This image contains the two staple Final Fantasy monsters/summons/espers/gfs/etc/etc, Bahamut and Alexander, although Alexander seems to have been taking growth hormones.

I never played Bahamut Lagoon, but I’m excited as to what the anouncement will actually be. Watch this space for updates…

Yesterday, Chelsea coach and Uncle Fester looking fucktard Ray Wilkins claimed that The Arsenal disrespect and devalue the Carling Cup by blooding their youngsters

Ray told The Sun: “It`s all about winning trophies when you`re a big club.

‘The fact we`ve won the Carling Cup twice in the last four years and Arsenal have won none justifies our policy’

“You enter a competition to win the competition. Why go into it if you`re not concerned whether you win it?’

“Playing a young or weakened team undermines the value of the competition.”

“And we have not and will not do that. We want to win it, big time.”

So imagine my delight this morning when I opened up the paper to see that the Chelsea first team lost on penalties to Championship side Burnley, and are now out of the Carling Cup.

Firstly, congratulations Burnley for working your collective Arses off to beat a strong Chelsea side, especially considering the price of Didier Drogba would pay for all the players and their wages for several years.

Secondly - ‘ave it you silly looking fecker, perhaps if Chelsea had a half decent academy/reserve side they could play in the competition too. Imagine being a youngster at Chelsea and hearing that? When the management decide to replace superstars with more superstars, when will the youngsters ever get the chance to play and become superstars?

I can only bring to mind one promising young Chelsea boy, Scott Sinclair. Whatever happened to him? Are there any more? Does anyone give a shit about the Chelski youth team? No. And that is the fundamental difference

Arsene Wenger has made the once derided competition a relevant, exciting and watchable event again, and any claims to the contrary are just ludicrous. He uses the competition to test his young charges, and every year they step up to the plate and thrill us with their fearlessness, skill, pace, and youthful exhuberence, while leaving the pundits drooling (although in the case of Mark Lawrenson, that may just be mental illness).

Arsene Wenger recently told Arsenal.com that this current crop are the best he has ever seen.

Now THAT, gives me tingles…

Well that was just dazzling wasn’t it?

It seems the hype surrounding the youngsters at Arsenal is showing no signs of abating. And with a performance like that, you can see why.

With an average age of just 19, we battered a powerful, near-to-full strength Wigan side, dominating possession and looking dangerous at every moment. That Chris Kirkland was probably Wigan’s best performer is testament to this young sides attacking prowess.

Jay Simpson, who is seemingly back in Wenger’s thoughts after returning from a loan spell at the Den, bagged 2 for himself. The first after racing on to a frankly remarkable through ball by Jack Wilshere and jabbing it home, the second a well taken finish in to a crowded net after Carlos Vela skinned them down the left hand side and cut the ball across the box.

Vela polished off his impressive contribution with a delightful chip from 18 yards taken in full stride. Kirklands face was one of disbelief after seeing it drop in to back corner, he couldn’t have looked more gutted. It gave me a warm feeling inside.

And to top it all off Lukas Fabianski delivered the deliciously sweet icing on the cake with an astonishing double save to keep the clean sheet. In fact, take a look at it:

Good grief

Here’s hoping a second successive victory for The Arsenal will propel us in the league and dispel some of the rank bullshit being spread that Arsene is loosing the plot. Seriously, have some fucking perspective.

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