FIFA tops UK Charts at Christmas

Sales of FIFA 09 surged this week in the UK to give EA its sixth Christmas No. 1 in eight years, just a week after Call of Duty: World at War outsold it by 27,000 units.

Thanks to an 89 per cent rise in sales, and a 13 per cent dip for COD, those of you who put a fiver on the game at 6-1 last week will be happy, anyway.

Below FIFA and COD, which sit in first and second, Mario Kart Wii holds on (sales up 40 per cent - to within 3,000 units of COD), while Need for Speed: Undercover holds at fourth and Brain Training does likewise in fifth.

Otherwise it's the usual shuffle with a few decent movers, but the most impressive performance is surely Professor Layton and the Curious Village, up to eighth from outside the top 40 last week, which compiler Chart-Track attributes to Christmas appeal and renewed stock.

In other big-game news, LittleBigPlanet celebrates Christmas at 15th, Prince of Persia continues its slow climb, to 16th, and Grand Theft Auto IV creeps back into the top 40 at 39th, in a Lips and Nintendogs sandwich. Woof.