This Week’s Top 10 UK Games

By John Freeman on 4 March 2008

Here’s this week’s Top 10 entertainment games in the UK.

1 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Sega’s best-selling Olympics title has hit the five million milestone after just three months on sale.

2 Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training

3 NEW ENTRY Lost: The Video Game
Play as a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815: Confront your dark past, seek your redemption, and ultimately find a way home.

4 Frontlines: Fuel Of War

5 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

6 Lost Odyssey

7 More Brain Training From Dr Kawashima

8 Fifa Street

9 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

10 NEW ENTRY The Sims 2: Freetime
It’s all about fun, personal development for your Sims in The Sims 2 FreeTime. Sims can follow their individual interests, whether it’s immersing themselves in books, becoming an award-winning foodie, flying a remote-controlled helicopter or playing the violin. Gifted mechanics can repair and then drive their newly-renovated sports cars. Sims can rake in oodles of Simoelons with skilfully crafted pottery or by writing a mesmerising novel.

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.