Baldur’s Gate rockets to No. 1 at retail

Black Isle Studios, the role-playing game division of Interplay Entertainment, announced today that Baldur’s Gate has become the #1 selling title in early reports from many U.S. and Canadian retailers, #1 in the United Kingdom according to ChartTrack, #1 in the official GfK chart in France and is leading the Media Control chart in Germany.

For January 1999, this is the business side of gaming doing what it always does: studios forming, publishers moving money around, lawsuits flying, and everyone promising the next big thing. Somewhere in that mess, players eventually get the games. Maybe.