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CHARTS: Fallout show gives games renewed popularity

CHARTS: Fallout show gives games renewed popularity

Amazon's Fallout TV show has helped the commercial performance of the franchise's two most recent entries.

Fallout 4 is still in the Top Ten at eighth, having returned to the charts last week at No.9. Meanwhile, the MMO Fallout 76 has shot up from 12th to ninth.

Valve has locked up the top three this week; Counter-Strike 2 holds the No.1 spot once more, while Dota 2 has shot up from No.31 to second place thanks to the new Crownfall update. Meanwhile, the company's Steam Deck hardware came in at No.3, rising up one place.

Helldivers 2 dropped one position to fourth, while the newly-released No Rest for the Wicked has made its debut at No.5. PUBG: Battlegrounds drops four places to sixth, charting ahead of Chinese-only MahjongSoul, which shot up from No.89 to seventh.

Rounding off the Top Ten is EA's free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends.

Here is the Steam Top Ten for the week ending April 23rd:

1. Counter-Strike 2, Valve
2. Dota 2, Valve
3. Steam Deck, Valve
4. Helldivers, PlayStation
5. No Wrest for the Wicked, Moon Studios
6. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton
7. 雀魂麻將(MahjongSoul), Catfood Studio
8. Fallout 4, Bethesda
9. Fallout 76, Bethesda
10. Apex Legends, EA


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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.