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UK Top 40: Zumba beats Zelda

Child of Eden enters in 25th.

Resurgent dance regime Zumba Fitness has leapt back to the top of the UK gaming chart.

Nintendo's Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake for 3DS surfaced in second. It's the highest placing yet for a 3DS exclusive - around 20 per cent of UK 3DS owners picked up the game.

This leaves Duke Nukem Forever, last week's number one, in third.

The chart's second-highest new entry? Square Enix role-player Dungeon Siege III. It dug in for ninth place and beat fellow newcomer Alice: Madness Returns, which managed 13th.

Snazzy on-rails rhythm shooter Child of Eden was the week's other new game. Despite gorgeous graphics and a prestigious pedigree (coming from Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi) it could only muster a placing in 25th.

L.A. Noire shuffles down to fourth, while a continued strong showing for Brink sees the Splash Damage shooter move back up the table into fifth.

Lego Pirates, Dirt 3 and inFamous 2 make up sixth, seventh and eighth respectively, with FIFA 11 completing the top ten.

On its original Christmas 1998 launch, Ocarina of Time for the N64 stormed to first place with a record-breaking 100,000 first week sales. Ocarina 3D isn't doing shabbily either - total sales have almost equalled current 3DS top-seller Pilotwings Resort, out since launch week.

This Week Last Week Title Platform(s)
1 3 Zumba Fitness: Join the Party Wii, Xbox 360
2 New entry Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D 3DS
3 1 Duke Nukem Forever PC, PS3, Xbox 360
4 2 L.A. Noire PS3, Xbox 360
5 7 Brink PC, PS3, Xbox 360
6 5 Lego Pirates of the Caribbean 3DS, DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
7 6 DiRT 3 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
8 4 inFamous 2 PS3
9 New entry Dungeon Siege III PC, PS3, Xbox 360
10 11 FIFA 11 DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
11 9 Call of Duty: Black Ops DS, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
12 9 Red Faction: Armageddon PC, PS3, Xbox 360
13 New entry Alice: Madness Returns PC, PS3, Xbox 360
14 12 Wii Sports Resort Wii
15 13 LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars 3DS, DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
16 26 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
17 10 Portal 2 Mac, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
18 24 Homefront PC, PS3, Xbox 360
19 19 Crysis 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
20 18 Mario Kart Wii Wii
21 14 Art Academy DS
22 30 Shift 2: Unleashed PC, PS3, Xbox 360
23 27 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood PC, PS3, Xbox 360
24 20 Wii Fit Plus Wii
25 New entry Child of Eden Xbox 360
26 17 Just Dance 2 Wii
27 29 Killzone 3 PS3
28 Re-entry Top Spin 4 PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
29 15 The Sims 3: Generations Mac, PC
30 23 Red Dead Redemption PS3, Xbox 360
31 22 The Sims 3 DS, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
32 25 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
33 Re-entry F1 2010 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
34 Re-entry Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
35 28 Virtua Tennis 4 PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
36 35 EA Sports Active 2 PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
37 Re-entry Fight Night Champion PS3, Xbox 360
38 Re-entry Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC, PS3, Xbox 360
39 40 Batman: Arkham Asylum PC, PS3, Xbox 360
40 Re-entry Sniper: Ghost Warrior PC, PS3, Xbox 360

UKIE Games Charts compiled by GfK Chart-Track.