Capcom has shipped 4m copies of Resident Evil 7

Hits milestone only seven month after Japanese publisher hoped

• sales
• resident evil 7
• horror

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds now most popular game in Korean LAN cafés

Battle royale title boasts 24.28 per cent slice of the market at time of writing

• international
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• korea
• lan cafés

Report: Dead Space 2 cost 'close to $47m' to make and sold 4m copies

Follows news of developer Visceral's closure

• dead space 2
• development costs
• triple-A
• single player

Activision patent shows matchmaking to encourage microtransaction purchase

Only approved this week, and is yet to be used

• patent
• microtransactions
• in-game spending

Overwatch surpasses 35m players

Unclear if this is copies sold or accounts registered; either way, big news for Blizzard

• overwatch

Middle-earth: Shadow of War debuts in second place on Steam

Cuphead drops one place to No.3

• Steam
• cuphead
• middle-earth: shadow of war

Cuphead has sold over one million copies

30s style run and gunner goes platinum in just two weeks

• cuphead

Fortnite battle royale mode has been played by 10m people in two weeks

44.5m hours have been ploughed into this game

• fortnite
• battle royale

Activision Blizzard stock downgraded after analysts worry about Overwatch eSports

Take-Two shares also bumped from outperform to market perform

• Market
• esports
• overwatch league
• analysts

PC games hardware revenue up by 23 per cent year-on-year in Europe

Revenue from Russia sowars 175 per cent, but UK saw growth of just 0.5 per cent

• Hardware
• data
• europe

Cuphead rises to second place in Steam Top Ten

Eagerly-awaited indie title rises two places over the last week

• cuphead

Total War: Warhammer 2 steals Steam second place from Divinity: Original Sin 2

Divinity: Original Sin 2 falls to third in Steam Top Ten as Total War and Cuphead chart highly

Full price PC market dips 10 per cent year-on-year in August despite Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds – report

No Man's Sky and Overwatch content from August 2016 makes for tough comparison

• playerunknown's battlegrounds

EU Commission says there’s no evidence that piracy affects game sales

Actually, piracy might be helping the games industry

• piracy
• eu commission

Divinity: Original Sin 2 holds No.2 spot for second week running

Title has sold over half a million units to date

• divinity: original sin 2