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Video games trade body UKIE today announces that Call of Duty: Black Ops has taken the top spot as this year's video games Christmas No1, with video games and interactive entertainment once again showing itself to be the entertainment and leisure activity of choice. You can read the full Top Ten List (which includes several Nintendo titles) inside.

UKIE's chart (compiled by GfK Chart-Track) shows that Call of Duty: Black Ops topped the 2010 Christmas charts, it has now sold a total of 3 million copies since it launched and is one of only three titles to top the 100m mark (the other two are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Wii Fit). The top ten combined have collectively sold a total of more than 10m and generated more than 345m in revenue.

The UKIE Games Chart top ten for week 50 2010

1 - Call of Duty: Black Ops - Activision Blizzard - Treyarch 2 - FIFA 11 - EA - EA-Canada 3 - Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit - EA - Criterion Games 4 - Just Dance 2 - Ubisoft - Ubisoft France 5 - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Ubisoft - Ubisoft Montreal 6 - Gran Turismo 5 - Sony Computer Ent. - Polyphony Digital 7 - Donkey Kong Country Returns - Nintendo - Retro Studios 8 - Medal of Honor - EA - Danger Close 9 - Wii Fit Plus - Nintendo - Nintendo 10 - Professor Layton and the Lost Future - Nintendo -L evel 5

Michael Rawlinson, Director General of UKIE, said, "With over 11 million video games sold in the last four weeks in the UK, generating over 290m, they are clearly the gift of choice this Christmas, showing once again that the interactive entertainment industry is the UK's leading creative industry. The Christmas chart also demonstrates the variety of choice on offer for consumers; there really is something for everyone."

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