Kane & Lynch 2 Grabs Top Spot On UK Charts

IO Interactive's Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days topped the UK sales charts for the week ended August 21, tracking firm Chart-Track announced Monday. The Square-Enix published title saw a much stronger debut than the original Kane & Lynch, which peaked at the number 14 spot in its second week in the UK. Rounding out the top three were Disney's Toy Story 3 and Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption, both strong selling titles week over week. No other new titles entered the top 10 this week, though Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands found its way to number eight. Although it didn't break the top 10 this week, Chart-Track announced that Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 made history this week, surpassing Nintendo's Brain Training as the best-selling title in the UK after only 10 months. For comparison, Brain Training took 36 months to surpass the UK's previous top-selling title, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. UK All-Platforms Top 10 (The all-platforms game chart lumps together all versions of a given title.) 1. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (Eidos) 2. Toy Story 3 (Disney Interactive Studios) 3. Red Dead Redemption (Take-Two) 4. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Warner) 5. Just Dance (Ubisoft) 6. Art Academy (Nintendo) 7. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo) 8. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Ubisoft) 9. Dance on Broadway (Ubisoft) 10. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (EA Games) UK Individual Platforms Top 10 On the individual platforms list, which ranks individual versions of a given title, the Xbox 360 version of Kane & Lynch 2 took the top spot, followed by Ubisoft's Just Dance and Nintendo's Art Academy. BioWare's Mass Effect 2 found its way back into the top 10, following EA's announcement that the title will soon make its way to PlayStation 3. 1. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (Eidos, Xbox 360) 2. Just Dance (Ubisoft, Wii) 3. Art Academy (Nintendo, DS) 4. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (Eidos, PS3) 5. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo, Wii) 6. Dance on Broadway (Ubisoft, Wii) 7. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Square Enix, DS) 8. Mass Effect 2 (EA Games, Xbox 360) 9. Toy Story 3 (Disney Interactive Studios, DS) 10. Sniper: Ghost Warrior (City Interactive, Xbox 360)