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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

Latest Data & Research

Report: Steam's Chinese usebase is higher then 30m NICE Oct 18th, 2018

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

That's roughly a fifth of total users

Report: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII hasn't killed PUBG on Steam BATTLE ROYALE Oct 17th, 2018

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

But it's early days yet

Star Citizen raised over $1m last week $$$$ Oct 15th, 2018

Star Citizen raised over $1m last week

Follows Alpha 3.3 release

Activision claims Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is its biggest Day One digital sales event, offers no figures to support this DATA? Oct 15th, 2018

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

Two million people have played Forza Horizon 4 in its first week NICE Oct 11th, 2018

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

New SuperData tool tracks video game value and impact of creators NICE Oct 10th, 2018

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"

Assassin's Creed Odyssey peak Steam player count already 33 per cent higher than Origins' DATA Oct 9th, 2018

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

Title hits 62,000 user peak

Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016 DATA! Oct 9th, 2018

Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016

And it provides 50,000 jobs

Report: Around 13m Playerunknown's Battlegrounds accounts have been banned DATA Oct 3rd, 2018

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

Not 13m players, though

Nvidia GeForce 1060 is still most popular graphics card on Steam DATA Oct 3rd, 2018

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

This week’s Steam Top Seller is a Chinese indie game that can’t be played in English STEAM CHARTS Oct 1st, 2018

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.

League of Legends is trending towards its worst-performing year since 2014 DATA Sep 28th, 2018

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

78.3m people played Fortnite in August HOW MANY? Sep 21st, 2018

78.3m people played Fortnite in August

Game's biggest month yet

Rocket League has attracted 10m new players since start of 2018 ROCKET POWERED Sep 20th, 2018

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

Australian study reports loot boxes "psychologically akin to gambling" DUH Sep 19th, 2018

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"

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