Sleeping Dogs beats 'New Super Mario Bros 2' to UK all-formats number one

Sleeping Dogs has made its debut at the top of the all-format weekly chart.

The open-world action game charts ahead of New Super Mario Bros. 2 in second, knocking London 2012: The Game down to third.

Retail promotions see both Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 climb to eight and ten respectively, the latter charting above Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Elsewhere, Sonic Generations props up the chart at 20, below Grand Theft Auto: Tales From Liberty City and Super Mario 3D Land.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations suffers this week's biggest drop, falling from eight to 17.

The top 20 in full:

[mafiahajeri]

Hope this game does well!

[teedogg80]

Loving this game right now.

[Acquiescence]

Way to give Activision the middle finger. Maybe next time Bobby And Co. will stop and think before needlessly pulling the plug on the development of a game for no good reason. Jerks.

[Xperia_ion]

Support new ips.

[Stephen5543]

This game was originally a "True Crimes" game, and the name was only changed because of licensing issues (Activision owns True Crimes, but dropped this game. Square Enix decided to pick up the developers).

So I wouldn't really count this as a new IP, but still worth supporting

[Lol_Lmao]

EPIC FAIL!
This was a new IP called Black Lotus but Activision slapped the True Crime name on it for brand recognition.
Activision really dropped the ball on this one. Great for Square Enix and a big middle finger to Activision.

[Stephen5543]

Ah, I was unaware of that. I only knew about True Crimes: Hong Kong. They also in a recent interview only talked about the reasoning for the new change in name from True Crimes, so I didn't know about that.

[Alos88]

Great news! A shame Darksiders 2 isn't even listed though.

[Knight_Crawler]

Played DS 2 and its more of the same from part one which is not bad but really disappointed that the developers gave us a DS 1.5 instead of DS2.

[Soylent_Green]

Darksiders hasn't been released in Europe yet, won't be out until tomorrow or Friday I think. I was planning on getting it last week but when it wasn't in the shop picked up sleeping dogs instead. Loving the lack of guns so far.

[CaptCalvin]

THIS is how you get people to buy your game and make money: you make a good game. NOT through abusive business practices.

[kostchtchie_]

great news, have got my PC version, just waiting for some spare time to play it