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UK spent $9.39bn on video games in 2021 News Mar 31st, 2022

UK spent $9.39bn on video games in 2021

That's a 1.9 per cent increase year-on-year and 32.8 per cent higher than 2019

CHARTS: Elden Ring has been No.1 on Steam for five weeks News Mar 28th, 2022

CHARTS: Elden Ring has been No.1 on Steam for five weeks

Title has shifted more than 12 million copies to date

ID@Xbox devs have made $2.5bn to date News Mar 25th, 2022

ID@Xbox devs have made $2.5bn to date

Amount of creator revenue has doubled since 2019

Core Keeper sells 500k units within first two weeks News Mar 22nd, 2022

Core Keeper sells 500k units within first two weeks

“We have been so excited by the community’s response to Core Keeper and are thrilled that more than half a million players have already joined us on the game’s journey"

CHARTS: Elden Ring spends fourth week at top of Steam charts News Mar 21st, 2022

CHARTS: Elden Ring spends fourth week at top of Steam charts

Title has shifted over 12 million copies to date

Elden Ring hits 12m sales globally News Mar 16th, 2022

Elden Ring hits 12m sales globally

New IP has reached this milestone after just over two weeks

Steam hits 132m monthly active players during 2021 News Mar 10th, 2022

Steam hits 132m monthly active players during 2021

"Player spending on games rose 27% compared to 2020, growing even more than playtime did"

Elden Ring hits 765k concurrent players on Steam News Feb 25th, 2022

Elden Ring hits 765k concurrent players on Steam

Game reached this marker within hours of release

Record number of games funded on Kickstarter in 2021 News Feb 22nd, 2022

Record number of games funded on Kickstarter in 2021

This is only the third time more than 400 projects in this category have reached their mark

Metro Exodus has sold six million copies News Feb 21st, 2022

Metro Exodus has sold six million copies

"Together we're millions of players – let's make it millions more"

Lost Ark hits 1.3m concurrent players on Steam News Feb 14th, 2022

Lost Ark hits 1.3m concurrent players on Steam

Follows its launch on Friday

Resident Evil 3 hits five million sales News Feb 9th, 2022

Resident Evil 3 hits five million sales

Title has shifted three million units since April 2020

Lost Ark surpasses 505k concurrent players on Steam News Feb 9th, 2022

Lost Ark surpasses 505k concurrent players on Steam

And that's ahead of its free-to-play launch

Farming Simulator 22 has sold more than three million units News Jan 28th, 2022

Farming Simulator 22 has sold more than three million units

Sales have doubled since end of November

Epic Games Store hit 194m PC users in 2021 News Jan 28th, 2022

Epic Games Store hit 194m PC users in 2021

21 per cent increase year-on-year

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