Pokemon franchise hits over 300 million sales
Speaking to Famitsu, The Pokemon Company released the figure for game sales that doesn't include Pokemon Go
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Games bigger than music and video, represented over 50% of UK entertainment market in 2018
FIFA 19 was the best-selling game of 2018 in the UK, with ERA saying that the games market is the “biggest winner in entertainment’s digital transformation”
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds hits 10m units, with 2m in the last two weeks alone
The game has continued to close in on Dota 2's 1.3m concurrent player record as well
Football Manager series hits one million sales for the fifth year running
The game from UK-based Sports Interactive also topped the boxed PC charts again this week.
Games market globally to hit $100bn - SuperData
Full story from MCV shows new data to suggest that gaming will hit a landmark figure in 2017 with League of Legends topping the PC market
PlayStation 4 sells through over 60m units
The Sony console has surpassed the SNES in the all time list
PSVR over 1million sales says Sony's Shawn Layden
Interview with Time magazine provides updated figure from the 900,000 in February
Switch boon for Nintendo as profits jump 121 per cent
2.74 million Switch units were sold in March, a fifth of the targeted 10 million sales.
Sony sell 65,194 PlayStation 4 Pro consoles in Japan in opening 4 days
Early sales data shows there's a big potential market for PlayStation 4 Pro ports.
PSVR sells 50,000 units in Japan in first week
Seems to have outsold all big competitors, making development for the platform more attractive
New figures suggest HTC Vive has sold over 140,000 units
News story from Chinese VR site suggests over 140'000 units have been sold.
Nintendo throws the spotlight on 'Nindies' with Summer Jam event
Special section of eShop launched to highlight titles and provide a behind-the-scenes look at devs’ favourite games
Steam Spy overturns data removal, refuses future dev takedown requests
‘The fact that the movie industry hasn't collapsed despite releasing box office numbers gives me faith that the games industry will survive as well,' insists creator Sergey Galyonkin
Three Fields 'can't afford' to support Dangerous Golf after debut fails to hit sales targets
Creative director Alex Ward details technical features that didn’t make the cut due to compact development team
NPD adds data for digital games to its sales figures
Major publishers including EA, Activision and Ubisoft sign up to service, but platform holders Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo remain untracked for now
Paradox requests takedown of all game stats from Steam Spy
Creator complies, responding: ‘I firmly believe Steam Spy should be seen as a useful tool by developers, not as a threat'
Develop Studio Sales Charts: Dark Souls III sends From Software soaring in April
EA Canada follows in second place thanks to EA Sports UFC 2, while Remedy Entertainment manages just fifth despite the success of Quantum Break
'No Sale Promise' campaign wants players to stop waiting for price cuts
‘By deliberately not participating in the ‘culture of sales’, at least for a while, you risk losing out on revenue and visibility that those sales could have generated’
Stardew Valley passes 1m sales in under two months
Lone dev Eric Barone’s Harvest Moon-a-like is the second-biggest paid Steam release of 2016, according to SteamSpy
Five-person dev Dodge Roll sells 200,000 copies of Enter the Gungeon in a week
PS4 and PC roguelike shooter has already grossed roughly £2.2 million
Fatshark's Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide passes 500,000 sales
Swedish indie dev sees success on PC with licensed co-op shooter
Frictional moves to multi-game development as Soma approaches profit
Amnesia: The Dark Descent creator suggests that mixing horror and sci-fi impacted sales of both its titles
'Let's Play videos stopped us earning any money,' says That Dragon, Cancer creator
‘We underestimated how many people would be satisfied with only watching the game instead of playing it themselves’
Gameloft cut 850 positions in 2015 to boost profit
‘Significant’ measures affecting a fifth of staff counterbalanced by 13 per cent sales growth
The Witness makes $5m in a week, but is yet to recoup its budget
Puzzle game sells 100,000 units in seven days, despite price and piracy controversy
Monument Valley racks up over 21m downloads in 2015
24 million users now own mobile puzzle game, with over a third of iOS users also buying Forgotten Shores expansion
Releasing a game in 2015: 'Holy f**k, it's got harder'
New titles require unique non-game related hook or hilariously weird premise to gain coverage, says Cliff Harris
Bloodborne sales surpass 1m
From Software's hit new IP reaches milestone in less than two weeks after release
Call of Duty sales surpass 175 million
One copy of Call of Duty sold every two seconds on average since series' inception