Weekend Highlights (April 26-27)

The co-creator of Fallout was ordered to destroy all his game archives, 4 million people played the Oblivion remaster, and sales of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 exceeded a million copies — here’s a rundown of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.

Fallout — left, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — top left, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — top right, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — bottom right

• Tim Cain, one of the creators of Fallout, shared in a recent video on his YouTube channel about the unfortunate fate of the game’s source materials. He admitted that when he left Interplay Entertainment, he was instructed to destroy his entire Fallout archive: early design sketches, prototypes, various code versions, and all of the GURPS code. At the time, the company claimed it would handle data preservation itself. However, a few years later, Interplay Entertainment contacted Cain and said, “Oops, we lost everything.” Initially, he thought it was a trap—suspecting a lawsuit if he revealed he hadn't destroyed the archive. But it turned out that they genuinely lost the game's materials. As far as Cain knows, the physical version's original code has been restored, though at least the original art remains lost.
• The release of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was a success for Bethesda Game Studios. The company announced that more than 4 million people had tried the remaster within four days of its release. It wasn’t specified how many purchased the game versus those who played through a Game Pass subscription, nor was there a platform-specific audience breakdown. However, it's known that on Sunday, the peak online population for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on Steam reached 216,784 players.
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 also showed impressive results. Studio Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive boasted that the action-RPG was purchased by over a million people in its first three days. Considering the Game Pass subscription, in which the new game has been available since launch, the audience for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should be even larger. Like the Oblivion remaster, the French game broke its online record on Steam over the weekend, now reaching 121,422 players.
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is selling faster on PlayStation 5 than on Xbox Series and Steam, according to Alinea Analytics. They estimated that in the first week, the PlayStation 5 version sold 117.2 thousand copies, whereas the Steam version sold 91.2 thousand copies in the same period. The analytics firm didn’t disclose Xbox Series sales but confirmed they were lower than those for PlayStation 5—most Xbox console owners played the game via a Game Pass subscription. According to Alinea Analytics, about 5 million people have tried the Xbox version to date. As a reminder, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was released for PC and Xbox Series in December 2024 and reached PlayStation 5 on April 17, 2025.