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CHARTS: Battlefield V takes Steam No.1 almost three years after launch STEAM TOP TEN Sep 6th, 2021

CHARTS: Battlefield V takes Steam No.1 almost three years after launch

Thanks to a 90 per cent price cut

Video game Kickstarter campaigns raised $13m in first half of 2021 $$$$ Sep 3rd, 2021

Video game Kickstarter campaigns raised $13m in first half of 2021

One of the most successful periods since 2015's blockbuster year

CD Projekt revenue up 29% for first half of 2021 NEWS Sep 2nd, 2021

CD Projekt revenue up 29% for first half of 2021

Cyberpunk 2077 was "leading source" of revenue for firm

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Total War: Three Kingdoms claims dominion over this week’s Steam Weekly Charts STEAM CHARTS May 28th, 2019

Total War: Three Kingdoms claims dominion over this week’s Steam Weekly Charts

Creative Assembly’s latest strategy is bolstered by massive popularity China

Superhot shoots past the two million sales mark, PC has around 40 per cent share SUPERHOT SUPERHOT SUPERHOT May 27th, 2019

Superhot shoots past the two million sales mark, PC has around 40 per cent share

'Normal' version of the game has shifted between 1.2m and 1.5m units; VR edition clocks in at 800,000 copies

29 per cent of EA's FY18/19 net revenue went on R&D $$$$ May 27th, 2019

29 per cent of EA's FY18/19 net revenue went on R&D

Firm spent a cool $1.43bn on research and development, a nine per cent increase year-on-year

Grand Theft Auto V was behind over a quarter of Take-Two's net revenue for last financial year $$$ May 27th, 2019

Grand Theft Auto V was behind over a quarter of Take-Two's net revenue for last financial year

91.8 per cent of net revenue came from the firm's Top Five titles

China drives Total War: Three Kingdoms to break series pre-order records NICE May 24th, 2019

China drives Total War: Three Kingdoms to break series pre-order records

Chief product officer Rob Bartholomew says the franchise has finally broken Korea and China

Q1 2019 revenue up 31 per cent for GOG, offsets slight decline from CD Projekt RED $$$$ May 24th, 2019

Q1 2019 revenue up 31 per cent for GOG, offsets slight decline from CD Projekt RED

Platform brought in $8.8m in first three months of the year

Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1bn in 2018 $$$ May 23rd, 2019

Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1bn in 2018

Former worth $2.8bn; the latter $355.6m

44.5 per cent of The Witcher 3 sales between 2015 and 2018 were on PC COOL May 23rd, 2019

44.5 per cent of The Witcher 3 sales between 2015 and 2018 were on PC

And over 60 per cent of sales to date are digital

SuperData: PC digital spending down four per cent year-on-year for April $$$ May 22nd, 2019

SuperData: PC digital spending down four per cent year-on-year for April

Premium letting the side down with "modest growth" for free-to-play

Report: Cloud games sector could increase sixfold in value to $2.5bn by 2023 CLOUD May 21st, 2019

Report: Cloud games sector could increase sixfold in value to $2.5bn by 2023

Game streaming services earned over $387 million in 2018

Rage 2 can’t overthrow Mordhau’s throne in this week’s Steam Top Ten STEAM CHARTS May 20th, 2019

Rage 2 can’t overthrow Mordhau’s throne in this week’s Steam Top Ten

Medieval multiplayer retains No.1 for the third week running

How 11 Bit Studios' Frostpunk is closing in on 1.5m sales SUCCESS STORY May 14th, 2019

How 11 Bit Studios' Frostpunk is closing in on 1.5m sales

"Think of mainstream hits as Hollywood movies and our games like the movies you can see at Sundance"

Discord attracted 50m new users in first three months of 2019 NICE May 14th, 2019

Discord attracted 50m new users in first three months of 2019

Total of 250m people have signed up as of March of this year

Take-Two made under $87m from loot boxes in fiscal 2019 $$$ May 14th, 2019

Take-Two made under $87m from loot boxes in fiscal 2019

Less than three per cent of its $2.93bn net booking total

ENTHUSIASTIC May 13th, 2019

Newzoo: More than 46 per cent of all “gaming enthusiasts” are women

Demographic breakdown divides gaming personalities into eight unique personas

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