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Titanfall Fortnite rival Apex Legends played by 25m people in first week News Feb 12th, 2019

Titanfall Fortnite rival Apex Legends played by 25m people in first week

Hits two million concurrent users, too

Player analytics firm FanAI acquires esports data experts Waypoint Media News Jan 30th, 2019

Player analytics firm FanAI acquires esports data experts Waypoint Media

FanAI gains access to Waypoint Media’s range of trackers, data and middleware

SuperData: $35.7bn was spent on digital PC games in 2018, Fortnite made more money in one year than any game ever News Jan 16th, 2019

SuperData: $35.7bn was spent on digital PC games in 2018, Fortnite made more money in one year than any game ever

$120bn revenue generated by the global market in total

There are now over 27,000 games on Steam News Jan 14th, 2019

There are now over 27,000 games on Steam

60 per cent of total number of titles on Valve's platform launched in 2017 and 2018

Service-based games dominate the Steam top-selling and most-played charts of 2018 News Jan 3rd, 2019

Service-based games dominate the Steam top-selling and most-played charts of 2018

Valve has revealed the top-selling, most-played and most successful games of the last twelve months

Gaming PCs generated more than $12bn in 2018 by October News Dec 20th, 2018

Gaming PCs generated more than $12bn in 2018 by October

Made up 19 per cent of the global PC market for that period

SteamSpy's Galyonkin says Epic's new storefront will be sharing games data News Dec 6th, 2018

SteamSpy's Galyonkin says Epic's new storefront will be sharing games data

Data man says he has been hard at work on this new marketplace for years

Government figures point to video games contributing £1.069bn to UK economy in 2017 - but it's likely much more News Nov 28th, 2018

Government figures point to video games contributing £1.069bn to UK economy in 2017 - but it's likely much more

Flaws in the way DCMS has gathered this information - and the way that some games companies classify themselves - mean this figure is lower than it should be

Newzoo: Top 25 publicly-traded games firms earned $50bn in H1 2018, lowest level of growth since 2014 News Nov 8th, 2018

Newzoo: Top 25 publicly-traded games firms earned $50bn in H1 2018, lowest level of growth since 2014

Rise of 12 per cent year-on-year

SuperData: Top games subscription services generated $273m in Q3 2018 News Nov 7th, 2018

SuperData: Top games subscription services generated $273m in Q3 2018

EA behind almost a third of revenue from this sector but PlayStation takes the lion's share

More than one million people have played Nexon's MapleStory 2 News Oct 19th, 2018

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

MMO attracted this audience in just one week

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

Reddit and Conde Nast owner Advance snaps up majority stake in research firm Newzoo News Oct 12th, 2018

Reddit and Conde Nast owner Advance snaps up majority stake in research firm Newzoo

No figure on the deal just yet, nor do we know what slice the media giant owns

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

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