Why did 500k people pay for Epic’s free-to-play title Fortnite on its first day?

Despite going free-to-play in 2018, half a million people just paid at least $39.99 for Fortnite

• fortnite
• sales data

Kingdoms and Castles sees 100% return on investment for Fig backers

Investors double money on city-building sim

• Investment
• Funding
• crowdfunding
• fig
• kingdoms and castles

Artifact could broaden DOTA appeal, but Valve should consider mobile to make it a smash hit, analysts say

Strong IP and eSports heritage mean success for Artifact is all but assured

• dota 2
• artifact
• card games

New releases surge on Steam following Direct launch

1,000 new games have come to the platform since June

• Steam
• steam direct
• ico partners

DOTA 2 International kicks off, prize pool stands at $23.6m

The International prize pot increases $3m year-on-year

• esports
• dota 2
• the international

Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players

MMO's cumulative players have almost doubled in the last year

• MMO
• sales data
• final fantasy XIV

2.3m people play Rainbow Six Siege each day, Ubisoft claims

Total playerbase hits 20m, Ubi says Siege is "here to stay"

• rainbow six siege
• games as a service

What went wrong with Introversion's Scanner Sombre?

Introversion saw real success with Early Access title Prison Architect, a title that's shifted well over 2m units. So why did its next title shift only 7,500 units in three months?

Final Fantasy XIV and Nier Automata called out for rise in Square Enix digital revenue

MMO expansion causes rise in Final Fantasy XIV users, as well as net sales and operating revenue for period

New faces in the Steam Top Ten as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues its reign at No.1

Clapfoot's Foxhole debuts at No.5 while a newly-released The Long Dark comes in at eighth place

• data
• steam charts

Digital sales dip 21 per cent at Sega

This side of the business brought in ¥9.5bn in the Q1 2018

• Financials

Steam has 67 million monthly active users

Platform has attracted 1.5m new users a month since January 2016

• Steam

Why Tencent invested in UK indie studio Milky Tea

"The news hasn't fully sunk in yet, I must admit"

• Investment
• tencent
• milky tea

Hitman now has more than 5m players

Good news for a newly independent IO Interactive

• hitman
• sales data

34 million people are playing Rocket League, Psyonix announces new ban practices

Developer details 'Language Ban' functionality that will see player automatically suspended for using certain language