Newzoo's prediction for 2018 global games revenue drops by $3bn

Mobile dip by $8bn, PC and console forecasts lower overall decline

• Revenue
• 2018
• global games market

ID@Xbox has helped launch 1,000 games in five years

"We're getting closer and closer to the point where the only gating factor in the success of a video game is the vision of the creator and the willingness to make that happen"

• indie games
• id@xbox

World War 3 sold over 100k units in first two days in Early Access

"This success is truly humbling, and gives us even greater motivation to continue extensive development of the game"

• world war 3
• unit sales

Total video games investment stands at over $5bn for 2018

$3.8bn for the first nine months of the year with Epic's latest round taking the market to new heights

• Investment
• M&As
• IPOs

World War 3 breaks out at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

Despite launch day issues, the military shooter has hit the bullseye in its second week

Steam has gained 23 million monthly active users in under a year

Valve’s platform has also hit a peak concurrent user record of 18.5 million

• Steam
• player stats

More than one million people have played Nexon's MapleStory 2

MMO attracted this audience in just one week

• data
• MMO
• south korea
• one million
• maplestory 2

Call of Duty opening weekend revenue flat year-on-year

Black Ops IIII makes $500m in its first weekend; same as 2017's WWII

• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops IIII

Report: Steam's Chinese usebase is higher then 30m

That's roughly a fifth of total users

• China
• Steam

Report: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII hasn't killed PUBG on Steam

But it's early days yet

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• call of duty
• pubg
• call of duty: black ops IIII

Star Citizen raised over $1m last week

Follows Alpha 3.3 release

• crowdfunding
• star citizen

Activision claims Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is its biggest Day One digital sales event, offers no figures to support this

Game is released, sells copies digitally

• data
• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops IIII
• pr spin

Two million people have played Forza Horizon 4 in its first week

Franchise is the best-selling racing series of this console generation - no surprise as it's the only annual release in this space

• data
• racing
• forza horizon 4

New SuperData tool tracks video game value and impact of creators

“Watching games online has quickly become one of the most popular forms of interactive entertainment with many games video titles and esports events now generating audiences that rival traditional media content"

• data
• influencers
• video content

Assassin's Creed Odyssey peak Steam player count already 33 per cent higher than Origins'

Title hits 62,000 user peak

• player figures
• assassin's creed odyssey