It seems there were a few big games released in Australia a week or so ago (not counting the few big games that were released last week - they haven't made it onto this chart yet!). Interestingly enough, this next wave has bumped the older big games from their lofty purchases - it looks like the games have been anticipated enough that everybody has rushed out and bought them in the first week, rather than just hanging out and picking up a copy eventually. Interesting.

Anyway, this week, the charts echo with the roar of a second lot of chainsaws as they take over the Xbox 360. PC gamers are on their third crimson alert, the Wii fans are seeing just what their controllers can do after a bit of a play, and the PS3 has taken a trip to a planet that is small, but large. Meanwhile, the DS is still testing their eyes - and both the PS2 and its portable cousin have taken on the latest in wrestling matches.

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Great game, especially multiplayer!

+1 Except that no-one in TEA has wanted to play it with me yet.

Gears 2 up the top where it belongs but a question, why is Fallout 3 doing so well? like i'm not trying to be an idiot or anything, what I mean by that is that I did a bit of reading and from what I understand Fallout 1/2 were quite good but were ultimately financial flops, they got their cult followings but were still flops, how did the series get so big despite the first 2 games being flops? (and on top of that the large gap between games)

And PCs appearance on the overall top 10 is already over.

advertising?

And cause they are straight out awesome?

A mate rated fallout 3 "best game EVER". Honestly, I'm having trouble finding fault with his statement...

I get the feeling the other TEA'rs are moving on already .... I usually try to play LBP on the weekends when my boy is around, or during the weeknights when I don't feel like playing TF2. So I am around and still playing so I am sure we will catch up for some multiplayer action soonish

lots of people say the same about the originals

I guess it's the advertising then though I haven't seen any advertising for FO3, I only know about it because of all the fanboys of the originals jumping up and down about it (frankly a few months ago I skipped every FO3 news story as I was just plain not interested)

lol was about to say wheres resistance 2 then just remembered its not out here yet xD

LPB not selling all that great thou, definitely doesn't seem to be pushing the ps3 sales either the way they thought it would. Perhaps we have to wait for x-mas but not really seeing what experts and sony have been talking about.

Fallout 3 is outselling LBP on the Ps3 for example.

Well you got that completely wrong, Fallout 1/2 are some of the best selling games of their time and among the highest selling rpg's of all time. They received rave reviews when they launched and are not the sort of games that became 'cult' games later on. They were massive hits from day one and Interplay was in a VERY good financial state at that time.
What happened after that I am not to sure, I believe half the Fallout team left Interplay and they did two half ass attempts that really did suck. But Interplay at this time didn't release a single successful game after Fallout 2 and that they still live 10 years without a game says something of the money they made on Fallout 1/2.

So Fallout as a brand is probably the most beloved rpg titles of all time, only Baldurs Gate could challenge them for that crown. Secondly Bethesda are the guys behind Oblivion which sold millions and Bethesda have a large and very loyal fan base themselves. On top of that the game has been Reviewing enormously well, getting 10/10 100/100 and the likes all over the place. You see people on shows like Bonus Round saying it will likley be game of the year etc etc.

You add that up and its 10+ million in sales.

Interplay went public in 1998, was acquired by Titus Interactive in 2001, who strip mined the company which resulted in it being delisted from the stock exchange in 2002. By 2004, it was evicted from it's premises for non-payment of rent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment

They didn't last 10 years, barely lasted 5... the current Interplay has nothing to do with the original bar a handful of management people and the name.

You might have been thinking of the in-house dev studio, "Black Isle Studios", some members of which did leave after the first Fallout, to form "Troika Games" (a short lived but inspired development house, IMO) ?

@ Krogan

this says differently

http://games.on.net/article/4420/The_Warp_Pipe_-_091108

I may have misread this, but I was saying that the originals were awesome.