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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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SuperData: $35.7bn was spent on digital PC games in 2018, Fortnite made more money in one year than any game ever DATA Jan 16th, 2019

SuperData: $35.7bn was spent on digital PC games in 2018, Fortnite made more money in one year than any game ever

$120bn revenue generated by the global market in total

Frontier reveals Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution have sold 2m copies each $$$ Jan 16th, 2019

Frontier reveals Planet Coaster and Jurassic World Evolution have sold 2m copies each

While Elite Dangerous has hit three million unit sales

Ico Partners: Successful video game Kickstarters raised $16m in 2018 DATA Jan 15th, 2019

Ico Partners: Successful video game Kickstarters raised $16m in 2018

Dip of eight per cent year-on-year

Valve boasts 47m daily active users for Steam for 2018 2018 IN REVIEW Jan 14th, 2019

Valve boasts 47m daily active users for Steam for 2018

90m people visited the platform every single month last year

There are now over 27,000 games on Steam DATA Jan 14th, 2019

There are now over 27,000 games on Steam

60 per cent of total number of titles on Valve's platform launched in 2017 and 2018

Resident Evil 2 pre-orders make a terrifying early entry near the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten STEAM CHARTS Jan 14th, 2019

Resident Evil 2 pre-orders make a terrifying early entry near the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

Halloween comes early with pre-orders for Capcom’s classic spooker

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang claims there are more than 4 million VR headsets out in the wild VIRTUAL Jan 9th, 2019

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang claims there are more than 4 million VR headsets out in the wild

The PC VR market may be healthier than it appears

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO NICE Jan 8th, 2019

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO

Follows online shooter's move from premium to free-to-play

A rocky voyage sees Ark Survival Evolved maker Studio Wildcard's Atlas chart a course into the Steam Top Ten STEAM CHARTS Jan 7th, 2019

A rocky voyage sees Ark Survival Evolved maker Studio Wildcard's Atlas chart a course into the Steam Top Ten

As Steam’s winter sale winds down, big names remain dominant in the weekly charts

RuneScape monthly active users doubled in 2018 as the MMO turns 18 NICE Jan 4th, 2019

RuneScape monthly active users doubled in 2018 as the MMO turns 18

“With this success, we’ve continued to increase investment levels to expand our games, as well as bringing in a slate of hugely talented people to join us in development, technology and publishing.”

Service-based games dominate the Steam top-selling and most-played charts of 2018 2018 REVIEW Jan 3rd, 2019

Service-based games dominate the Steam top-selling and most-played charts of 2018

Valve has revealed the top-selling, most-played and most successful games of the last twelve months

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit an all-time peak of 20 million unique players over December STRIKE Jan 3rd, 2019

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit an all-time peak of 20 million unique players over December

Record player count follows Valve’s shooter going free-to-play last month

SuperData claims global premium PC digital revenue dropped five per cent in November DATA Dec 20th, 2018

SuperData claims global premium PC digital revenue dropped five per cent in November

Destiny 2 and Rainbow Six Siege spending slowing down

Gaming PCs generated more than $12bn in 2018 by October DATA Dec 20th, 2018

Gaming PCs generated more than $12bn in 2018 by October

Made up 19 per cent of the global PC market for that period

Valve's Artifact sees 81 per cent dip in concurrent players from launch DATA Dec 12th, 2018

Valve's Artifact sees 81 per cent dip in concurrent players from launch

11,596 users at time of writing - but don't rule out this new card game yet

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