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The best selling UK video games of 2011

All together, and platform by platform.

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News by Robert Purchese Associate Editor
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Modern Warfare 3 was the best selling video game in the UK last year, UKIE and GfK Chart-Track have revealed.

Call of Duty games have now topped the annual pile three years on the trot.

FIFA 12 finished as the second best selling UK video game of 2011, followed by publisher sibling Battlefield 3.

Surprisingly, it was Zumba Fitness that finished fourth, ahead of universally acclaimed RPG Skyrim in fifth.

Ubisoft games Just Dance 3 and Assassin's Creed: Revelations were sixth and seventh.

L.A. Noire was the eighth best selling game of the year, followed by Saints Row: The Third and Batman: Arkham City.

Digital sales are not counted, although they will be soon - UKIE plans to launch digital charts this year.

The Xbox 360 apparently the most amount of software - both in unit volume and money earned - in its history during 2011.

2011 All Formats Chart

  1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  2. FIFA 12
  3. Battlefield 3
  4. Zumba Fitness
  5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  6. Just Dance 3
  7. Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  8. L.A. Noire
  9. Saints Row: The Third
  10. Batman: Arkham City

2011 Nintendo Wii Chart

  1. Zumba Fitness
  2. Just Dance 3
  3. Just Dance 2
  4. Mario Kart Wii
  5. Wii Sports Resort

2011 Sony PlayStation 3 Chart

  1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  2. FIFA 12
  3. Battlefield 3
  4. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
  5. Assassins Creed: Revelations

2011 XBox 360 Chart

  1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  2. FIFA 12
  3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  4. Battlefield 3
  5. Gears of War 3

2011 Nintendo DS Chart

  1. Professor Layton And The Spectre's Call
  2. Pokemon White Version
  3. Pokemon Black Version
  4. Art Academy
  5. Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo

2011 Sony PSP Chart

  1. FIFA 12
  2. FIFA 11
  3. Motorstorm: Arctic Edge
  4. Gran Turismo
  5. Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines

2011 Nintendo 3DS Chart

  1. Super Mario 3D Land
  2. Mario Kart 7
  3. The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time 3D
  4. Nintendogs + Cats: Golden Retriever
  5. Rayman 3D

2011 PC Games

  1. Football Manager 2012
  2. Football Manager 2011
  3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  4. The Sims 3
  5. Battlefield 3

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