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FIFA 12 has claimed a second week running atop the UK charts following its debut last week, fending off new entries from the likes of id's Rage and From Software's Dark Souls to remain top of Chart-Track's official chart.

Rage and Dark Souls did manage to be the best of the rest though, coming in at No.2 and No.3 respectively to record solid launches. They replace Gears of War 3 and F1 2011, which now sit at No.4 and No.5 as a result.

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It won't come as much of a surprise to hear that FIFA 12 has debuted atop the UK chart this week, but what might be a little more surprising is that it's done this while enjoying the third most sales ever in a launch week according to Chart-Track's figures.

With only the previous two Call of Duty games enjoying bigger launch weeks, FIFA 12 replaced Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV as the third biggest launch in UK chart history. Shoot over to our review of the game to find out why.

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EA Sports has spilt a bucket-load of FIFA announcements over at Gamescom this afternoon, including an all-new instalment in the FIFA Street series as well as a demo date and Ultimate Team details for FIFA 12.

FIFA Street is in development at EA Canada for Xbox 360 and PS3 with an early 2012 release currently being eyed for the title. This latest instalment in the series will retain the usual focus on over-the-top skills and 5-a-side matches.

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EA Sports has announced a Season Ticket programme for the publisher's four major titles: FIFA, Madden NFL Football, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and NHL Hockey (the first game to use it will be Madden 12, which launches on September 2nd in the UK).

The Season Ticket, which is available for 2000 Microsoft Points (£17) via Xbox Live from today, acts as a yearlong pass for exclusive and discounted content across EA Sports' biggest IPs.

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As the FIFA 11 season comes to its conclusion with the much anticipated release of FIFA 12 at the end of September, EA Sports has compiled a Goals of the Season vid showing the best belters, peaches, and screamers from its loyal fans in FIFA 11 over the last 9 months.

There really are some staggering displays of skills in this vid, but what we particularly like is how all of the goals are tasteful. They're not just some skill-moves obsessed gamer running rings around a novice; there's a real eye for the aesthetics of a great footballing goal instead.

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Following the public outrage at sexist comments made by long-time FIFA commentator, Andy Gray, which led to his subsequent sacking by Sky Sports earlier this year, EA Sports has now officially announced the commentary line-up for this year's FIFA and, in an unsurprising move, the publisher has ousted Gray from his former role.

Alan Smith (shown far-right) will now take over co-commentary duties alongside Martin Tyler (shown left), who has lent his voice to the FIFA series over its last four iterations. However, this will be the first time that Smith has done commentary voice-over work for a football game.

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EA Sports has announced a September 30th release date for FIFA 12 in Europe (September 27th in the US), as well as the release of a PC version alongside the previously confirmed Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP and 3DS platforms.

While FIFA 11 on PC was the first version to be developed using a current-gen console build (it was effectively FIFA 10 with updated team info), FIFA 12 on PC will have an identical feature set and build to this year's Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.

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EA Sports' President, Peter Moore made a bold statement of intent at Microsoft's E3 conference this year by confirming that Kinect implementation will be coming to the publisher's line-up of sports games. For EA Sports' flagship FIFA series though, it doesn't look like that will happen until FIFA 13 at the earliest.

"What we've learnt over the years is building anything on a platform just for the sake of it doesn't make any sense," Andrew Wilson, EA Sports' Senior Vice-President of Worldwide Development, told Eurogamer. "So the question is, how can that platform add value?"

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EA Sports' President, Peter Moore has revealed at Microsoft's E3 press conference that four key EA Sports titles will be Kinect compatible when they launch over the coming year.

FIFA, Madden, and Tiger Woods were all confirmed as Kinect compatible in addition to a fourth unannounced title, although precisely how each game incorporates Kinect was not detailed.

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In January of this year, Sky Sports football presenters, Andy Gray and Richard Keys were sacked from their jobs over sexist comments they made about Assistant Referee, Sian Massey. Suggestions that she was somehow less able to perform her job because of her gender were met with widespread condemnation from the British public and its media.

The debacle was certain to cause problems for EA Sports. Andy Gray has provided more commentary for the FIFA series than any other TV personality and has lent his voice to the game alongside fellow Sky Sports commentator, Martin Tyler over its last four iterations.

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Improved AI: it seems to have become the mantra of PES announcement press releases over the last few years, and PES 2012 is no exception - promises of dummy runs on the attacking side of the gameplay, to tweaked hold-up play on the defensive end, all feature in this 11th PES iteration.

While these kinds of promises may have turned out to be hollow ones in the likes of PES 2009 and 2010 though, we're inclined to give Konami the benefit of the doubt this year as PES 2011 did such a good job with its improvements to defensive AI last year.

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This week's UK Chart has 505 Games' Zumba Fitness at the top of the pile as it once again managed to fight off the likes of EA's Crysis 2 and LucasArts' LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars for the honours.

Zumba Fitness re-entered the charts three weeks ago after a Wii version of the game was released over four months after the original Xbox 360 Kinect iteration.

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EA has released the first screen for FIFA 12 featuring the Real Madrid and Brazil forward, Kaká, who also featured as one of the cover stars for last year's game.

It's an indication that EA clearly wants to stick with Kaká as one of the series' endorsed superstars despite his injury troubles and struggle back to form since his move to the Bernabéu in 2009.

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Bomberman creator Hudson Soft is to lose 40 jobs and close its US subsidiary as part of its acquisition by Konami.

From April 1st, Hudson’s remit will be to create social networking services and games for its new owner. Konami has already released Frogger and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Challenge on Facebook, but the new move looks set to result in a greater focus on social gaming for the developer.

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Square Enix has announced a release date for The 3rd Birthday on PSP. A special Twisted Edition pack will be available from April 1st, including a 44 page hardback art book, and two Lithographic art prints of Aya Brea - the game’s protaganist and star of the Parasite Eve series.

In addition to the tangible goodies, the Twisted Edition will come with an exclusive Aya Brea costume for Lightning in DISSIDIA 012[duodecim], and a voucher offering the user a 50% saving on the purchase of Final Fantasy II over PSN.

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Square Enix has announced the release of Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II for PSN from 16th February and 2nd March respectively.

The titles will set you back £7.99 apiece, although DISSIDIA 012 Duodecim (on PSP this spring) will include a voucher for 50% off Final Fantasy when purchased via PSN.  The 3rd Birthday, (also released for PSP this spring) will contain a similar 50% off voucher for Final Fantasy II.

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EA has confirmed to TVG that its FIFA franchise has made over $40 million (£25 million) in "additional digital revenue" over the past year.

The following statement was released to TVG when we sought clarification of a comment made by EA's Executive Vice-President and CFO, Eric Brown in an investor conference call last week:

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