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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"

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

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

Not 13m players, though

Lara sneaks to Steam No.1 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider News Sep 17th, 2018

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

Nielsen has purchased SuperData Research News Sep 6th, 2018

Nielsen has purchased SuperData Research

No figure put on the deal

Millions tune in for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal News Aug 29th, 2018

Millions tune in for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal

Offical YouTube video boasts 4.7m views, concurrent high of 459,000 people on Twitch stream

Player figures don't mean anything in the age of the subscription service Interviews & Opinion Aug 7th, 2018

Player figures don't mean anything in the age of the subscription service

We need to be more critical than ever when we know nothing about the people playing a game

Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue News Jul 17th, 2018

Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue

PC to be behind 37.3 per cent of total battle royale revenue this year

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