Thanks to amazing word-of-mouth and hype in the days preceding the release date, Re-Logic's Minecraft-inspired 2D adventure game Terraria has compiled some amazing numbers, selling 200,000 copies through this Tuesday, just a little over a week after it was released. I have to say, Terraria definitely deserves the hype; while it it heavily based on the Minecraft model, it does a number of things more innovatively and cleverly that I commend them for taking the inspiration and further building upon it, unlike other Minecraft clones. I'll have a review for this soon, but for now, expect very positive things.

[Gamasutra]