Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016

And it provides 50,000 jobs

• UK
• economy

Report: Around 13m Playerunknown's Battlegrounds accounts have been banned

Not 13m players, though

• data
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• cheating
• anti-cheat

Nvidia GeForce 1060 is still most popular graphics card on Steam

Hardware survey show that barely six per cent of users are playing at 1080p or higher

• Steam
• gpu
• resolution

This week’s Steam Top Seller is a Chinese indie game that can’t be played in English

The Scroll of Taiwu takes No.1 in this week’s Steam Top Ten.

• China
• steam charts

League of Legends is trending towards its worst-performing year since 2014

21 per cent year-on-year revenue drop hasn’t stopped the MOBA from taking third spot in SuperData’s August chart

• league of legends
• charts

78.3m people played Fortnite in August

Game's biggest month yet

• fortnite
• battle royale
• player figures

Rocket League has attracted 10m new players since start of 2018

Car football title hits 50m total player count - but we don't know how well it has sold

• player figures
• rocket league

Australian study reports loot boxes "psychologically akin to gambling"

"They may therefore condition gamers to require the excitement associated with gambling , leading to problem gambling"

• loot boxes

Survival title Scum hits 1m sales

Early buyers rewarded with golden handgun

• sales
• one million

Lara sneaks to Steam No.1 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider

But it looks like the game hasn't done so well in the physical charts

• data
• steam charts
• shadow of the tomb raider

Adult games site Nutaku hits 115.2m visits each month

Traffic more than doubled in last five months

Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion allegedly tripled the game’s player count

Returning players and a PS Plus promotion boost numbers for the Bungie shooter

• destiny 2
• player stats

Report: Over half of US "active gamers" play on PC

35 per cent of American population use this platform for games

• research
• usa

Gamescom media coverage drops almost 20 per cent for 2018

Lowest point since Ico Partners started tracking

• media
• gamescom 2018

SCUM lasts another week on the run as it steals No.1 in the Steam Top Ten

Gamepires' survival sandbox has managed more ups than downs in its first few weeks on Steam

• steam charts
• scum