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Sleeping Dogs takes top spot

Mario chases gold, but gets silver.
Mike Holmes 20 August 2012

Sleeping Dogs, Square Enix's open-world undercover cop thriller, has stormed to the top of the UK's multiformat sales chart. An achievement made all the more impressive when considering the fact that to get to the top spot, the game had to outsell the latest adventure of Nintendo's iconic talisman, New Super Mario Bros. 2.

Elsewhere the chart is largely static. Last week's top five remains in the same order, they just slip down two places to make way for the new entrants.

1. Sleeping Dogs (Square Enix)
2. New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo)
3. London 2012: The Official Video Game of the Olympics (Sega)
4. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Warner)
5. Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Sega)
6. Batman: Arkham City (Warner)
7. The Amazing Spider-Man (Activision)
8. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (Ubisoft)
9. Dead Island GOTY Edition (Koch)
10. Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Wanrer)
11. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda)
12. FIFA 12 (EA)
13. Battlefield 3 (EA)
14. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo)
15. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision)
16. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Activision)
17. Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Ubisoft)
18. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
19. Grand Theft Auto Episodes - Liberty City (Rockstar)
20. Sonic Generations (Sega)

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