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Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue DATA Jul 17th, 2018

Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue

PC to be behind 37.3 per cent of total battle royale revenue this year

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds crosses 3m concurrent player barrier NICE Jan 2nd, 2018

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds crosses 3m concurrent player barrier

Title reached 3.1m people at peak

PUBG, Rocket League, Divinity, GTA V and Witcher 3 among top-grossing Steam games of 2017 THE YEAR THAT WAS Jan 2nd, 2018

PUBG, Rocket League, Divinity, GTA V and Witcher 3 among top-grossing Steam games of 2017

Steam has revealed which games made the most money on its platform in 2017, kind of.

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Dead Cells has sold over 1m copies, PC still the leading platform $$$ Mar 22nd, 2019

Dead Cells has sold over 1m copies, PC still the leading platform

But the Nintendo Switch edition is actually the fastest selling

GDC 2019 - ID@Xbox games have made more than $1.2bn in revenue since programme's launch $$$$ Mar 19th, 2019

GDC 2019 - [email protected] games have made more than $1.2bn in revenue since programme's launch

Titles in Microsoft's indie scheme had generated $200m in the last 12 months

GDC 2019 - Oxenfree has sold 1.5m copies but boasts 3m installs $$$$ Mar 19th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Oxenfree has sold 1.5m copies but boasts 3m installs

PC still leading the pack, but the gap ahead of console is closing

PC is Monster Hunter World's second largest platform, Capcom says DATA Mar 14th, 2019

PC is Monster Hunter World's second largest platform, Capcom says

EMEA and UK marketing director Antoine Molant says that forthcoming Iceborne expansion is a "key project" for the Japanese publisher - and that's not all the firm has in the pipeline this year

1 Updated: ERA "spend on access" figures for games include microtransactions as users do not own content ££££ Mar 11th, 2019

Updated: ERA "spend on access" figures for games include microtransactions as users do not own content

Trade body claims consumers parted with £2.25bn in 2018 for accessing, not owning games

Wipe those tears: Devil May Cry slashes the top spot in this week’s Steam charts STEAM CHARTS Mar 11th, 2019

Wipe those tears: Devil May Cry slashes the top spot in this week’s Steam charts

Capcom continues a whirlwind year with a strong launch for the seminal hack n' slash

EXCLUSIVE: Here are where 209 jobs were cut in Blizzard's US business JOB NEWS Mar 8th, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Here are where 209 jobs were cut in Blizzard's US business

We now know just where layoffs have been made in the Overwatch firm's American workforce

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings DATA AND RESEARCH Mar 7th, 2019

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings

But EA and Respawn's battle royale game is still wildly popular

Contact Sales boss expects 60 per cent of its sales to be digital by end of 2019 INTERESTING! Mar 5th, 2019

Contact Sales boss expects 60 per cent of its sales to be digital by end of 2019

Firm's MD Robert Stallibrass says that "more than 60 per cent" of its business is physical

50m people have played Apex Legends in the last 28 days WOW Mar 4th, 2019

50m people have played Apex Legends in the last 28 days

Userbase has doubled in the last, er, fortnight

The infuriatingly-cute Slime Rancher has sold over 2 million copies SLIME Mar 4th, 2019

The infuriatingly-cute Slime Rancher has sold over 2 million copies

Slime Rancher hits two million sales just in time for its free fortnight on the Epic Games Store

Report claims Q4 2018 GPU shipments down 3.3 per cent in wake of cryptocurrency boom SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT Mar 4th, 2019

Report claims Q4 2018 GPU shipments down 3.3 per cent in wake of cryptocurrency boom

Excess of old stock in the retail channel following prior inflated demand

Solo-developed cyberpunk sim Spinnortality earned $90,000 in its first month PUNK'D Mar 4th, 2019

Solo-developed cyberpunk sim Spinnortality earned $90,000 in its first month

Developer James Patton feels the current indie space is tough, but not insurmountable

Humanity founds a new society at the top of the Steam Top Ten with Madruga Works' Dawn of Man STEAM CHARTS Mar 4th, 2019

Humanity founds a new society at the top of the Steam Top Ten with Madruga Works' Dawn of Man

This week's charts also mark a breakthrough for Chinese-exclusive Steam games

Activision Blizzard and EA bosses Kotick and Wilson appear on Top 100 Most Overpaid CEOs list for second time OH Feb 25th, 2019

Activision Blizzard and EA bosses Kotick and Wilson appear on Top 100 Most Overpaid CEOs list for second time

Third year that games industry execs have shown up in this ranking

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