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Digital sales now account for 65% of total revenue
Read More »Focus Interactive reports record revenue boosted by Vampyr sales and ‘excellent’ back catalogue performance
UK games market up 9.6% YoY, reached £3.3bn in 2017
The Entertainment Retailers Association released its annual report on the entertainment market (video, music and games) and found it has broken a new record in 2017 by reaching £7.24bn – a 8.8 per cent increase year-on-year. The video games market hit £3,353bn in 2017, which represented a 9.6 per cent …
Read More »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
Read More »Piracy doesn’t harm game sales, says EU Commission report
A new report by the European Commission came to the conclusion that piracy doesn’t have an negative impact on game sales. It’s actually quite the opposite, as it would actually increase game sales – though the report is based on data from 2014 so things have certainly evolved since then. …
Read More »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
Read More »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.
Read More »Tales from the Borderlands finished by a ‘skeleton crew’ due to poor sales
Telltale Games has seen huge success with its numerous point and click franchises, but it appears that sales for Tales of the Borderlands were rather more disappointing compared to its lauded stablemates. No exact figures have been revealed, but in a recently published oral history of the game’s development on …
Read More »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
Read More »Games publishing 2017: how to set a game’s price
In Part One of our publishing roundtable, we talked to publishers about setting release dates and how fewer triple-A releases could mean better business for the whole industry. In Part Two, we discuss pricing. As more indie titles head to retail, the debate around games pricing has never been fiercer. We ask …
Read More »Ubisoft Q1 sales up 45.2% YOY thanks to strong back catalogue performance
Ubisoft has announced its Q1 sales report for fiscal year 2017-18. Sales were up 45.2 per cent year-on-year between April and June 30th, amounting to €202.1m. That’s just over €30m more than expectations. Of that €202.1m, 94.3 per cent came from back catalogue sales, which equated to €190.4m. A lot …
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