Summer Games Top the Charts

While the top three spots are still held tightly by the same best-selling games, summer has also brought a new crop of games into the charts. PC Data sales figures for the week of June 18 to June 24 shows that Electronic Arts' real-time strategy game Shogun slipped slightly in its second week and moved into fourth place. Activision's adaptation of the White Wolf pen-and-paper role-playing game settled comfortably into fifth. The third new face is Deus Ex, the conspiracy-laden first-person action game from the creator of System Shock.

Rank / Title / Publisher / Retail Price
1 / The Sims / Electronic Arts / US$43
2 / Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2nd Ed. / Disney / $19
3 / Roller Coaster Tycoon / Hasbro / $30
4 / Shogun: Total War / Electronic Arts / $35
5 / Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption / Activision / $47
6 / Deus Ex / Eidos / $40
7 / Roller Coaster Tycoon Corkscrew Follies / Hasbro / $20
8 / Sim City 3000 Unlimited / Electronic Arts / $39
9 / Starcraft / Havas Interactive / $30
10 / Age of Empires II: Age Of Kings / Microsoft / $45