UK Top 40: Battlefield 3 beats Batman: AC

Battlefield 3 has stormed the UK chart to arrive first in the all-formats listing.

EA's first-person shooter is the tenth biggest UK launch of all time in terms of units sold and ninth in revenue. It sold more copies in week one than all seventeen previous Battlefield games combined and twice as much as Medal of Honor last year.

53 per cent of copies bought were on Xbox 360, 29 per cent on PlayStation 3 and 10 per cent on PC, although those numbers do not count digital download sales, such as through EA's Origin service.

Batman: Arkham City is second, while FIFA 12 and Football Manager also both shuffle down a place to accommodate Battlefield.

Rare-developed Kinect Sports: Season 2 was the next highest new entry, leaping into 18th.

The only other fresh entry to the chart was Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi, which arrived in 23rd.

Disney Universe, PS3 re-make House of the Dead: Extended Cut and Kirby Mass Attack all failed to register in the all-formats' top 40.

Out last week, Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn managed a late entry into the chart in 35th place, no doubt helped by the launch of the Tintin movie last weekend.

This leaves the rest of the top ten remains largely unchained, with Just Dance 3, Forza 4, The Sims 3 and Zumba making up fifth to eighth place.

Toy tie-in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure continues to scale the chart ahead of Christmas, with Rage in tenth.

The full chart will follow.