Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero 5 has landed the number one spot in the ELSPA ChartTrack gaming charts this week.

It came ahead of Electronic Arts’ The Beatles: Rock Band, which was the fourth highest selling title, in a highly anticipated battle of the music titles.

Colin McRae DiRT 2 sped its way to second in the charts during its first week of release with its off-road racing offering.

Batman: Arkham Asylum dropped down to third in the chart, with a 60 per cent drop in sales, although it as being tipped as one of the games of the year.

Nintendo’s Wii Fit and Sports Resort titles are fifth and sixth respectively, with the interactive fitness brands still flying off the shelves.

Further down the rankings was a debut for Eidos’ Championship Manager 2010, which has been available to download from their website for as little as 1p, with gamers choosing how much they want to pay for the title.

The long-awaited demo for new-look Fifa 10 will be available on consoles from September 10th.

Gamers will be able to download the preview version of the classic football title through Xbox Live on the Xbox 360 or from the PlayStation Network on the PlayStation 3.

The demo will include six playable teams, including Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus and Bayern Munich.

New features in this year’s version include improvements to the dribbling model with players now being able to dribble in a 360-degree motion, giving gamers more lifelike control over their team.

Artificial intelligence has also been tweaked, making players more urgent and responsive to controls.

The passing and shooting systems additionally have been improved with star midfielders now able to ping passes around the park, while shooting accuracy and physics have been modified.

Fifa 10 is out on all consoles including the Nintendo Wii from October 2nd.

Sony’s PlayStation 2 (PS2) has been ranked third in a list of the 25 best videogame consoles of all time.

The PS2 is the highest selling console ever, with over 130 million units being sold worldwide by the end of 2008 and was the highest ranked modern-day console in the list compiled by Ign.com.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was awarded sixth place while the Nintendo Wii came tenth. The original Xbox console was rated 11th while the most advanced system in the list, the PlayStation 3, finished 15th.

However, the eventual winner was the 1985 classic Nintendo Entertainment System or NES as it became affectionately known as.

This household favourite was made popular because of games such as Super Mario Bros and the original Legend of Zelda.

LordJD, writing for NesPlayer.com, said that the NES system had a huge influence on gaming today.

He added: “All I can really say is that this is a classic. Live to love them. They paved the way for your sequels and awesome games of today.”

There were entries in the list for Sega’s Dreamcast, Saturn and Genesis, while Atari had numerous nominations with the 1977 2600 model finishing second in the poll.

The new PlayStation Slim has been flying off the shelves this week, as it beat the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS Lite by a ratio of three-to-one.

After launching on September 1st, the redesigned console’s week-on-week sales boosted the PS3′s by 999 per cent increase over the week prior to release, according to ChartTrack.

The sales tracking company said that the uplift might die down before another upturn around the Christmas period.

“This sales increase is very impressive, making the PlayStation 3 the top selling hardware in week 36. The Xbox 360, Wii and DS Lite all sold around the same amount last week, PS3 outsold each of them by a ratio of three-to-one,” said a ChartTrack spokesman.

Sales of the PlayStation 2 also climbed by 310 per cent on the back of the release of the Slim console.

Sony’s new lightweight Slim comes with updated 3.00 firmware which allows users quicker access to the PlayStation Store and the BBC’s iPlayer software, while power consumption has also been cut.