Activision Blizzard stock downgraded after analysts worry about Overwatch eSports

Take-Two shares also bumped from outperform to market perform

• Market
• esports
• overwatch league
• analysts

PC games hardware revenue up by 23 per cent year-on-year in Europe

Revenue from Russia sowars 175 per cent, but UK saw growth of just 0.5 per cent

• Hardware
• data
• europe

Cuphead rises to second place in Steam Top Ten

Eagerly-awaited indie title rises two places over the last week

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Total War: Warhammer 2 steals Steam second place from Divinity: Original Sin 2

Divinity: Original Sin 2 falls to third in Steam Top Ten as Total War and Cuphead chart highly

Full price PC market dips 10 per cent year-on-year in August despite Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds – report

No Man's Sky and Overwatch content from August 2016 makes for tough comparison

• playerunknown's battlegrounds

EU Commission says there’s no evidence that piracy affects game sales

Actually, piracy might be helping the games industry

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• eu commission

Divinity: Original Sin 2 holds No.2 spot for second week running

Title has sold over half a million units to date

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Cities: Skylines has sold more than 4m copies

Has sold half a million units since March of this year

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• cities: skyline

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds dethrones DOTA 2 with 1.3m peak concurrent player count

Title has sold 10m units and doesn't look like it's slowing down yet

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Kickstarter RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 debuts in second place in Steam Top Ten

Title boasts 85k peak concurrent players after raising more than $2m on the crowd-funding platform

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• divinity: original sin 2

Report: Steam Direct sees releases double, but average sales and revenue dip

Data from Steam Spy highlights how Steam Direct has affected the market

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US bank JP Morgan has no intention to control Ubisoft

Organisation owns 11.33 per cent of French publisher's shares, it's been revealed

• money

Only two per cent of Subsurface Circular launch customers refunded, says Mike Bithell

Title made back its production costs in just three weeks

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35% of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds players are from China – report

Meanwhile, US players make up just 13 per cent of title's userbase.

• playerunknown's battlegrounds

1,300 new games have launched on Steam since JUNE

Number of releases in 2017 thus far set to eclipse total number between 2006 and 2014

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