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A new digital card game-focused report from Superdata states that Blizzard’s free-to-play release Hearthstone is raking in $20m a month between PC and mobile platforms. The company highlights the figure in asummary of its annual digital card game report, with the analyst firm adding that Blizzard has managed to recreate …
Read More »Last year’s big hits top the digital console chart for June in the UK
The boxed charts might all be about Batman and Elder Scrolls, but 2014’s success stories continue to reign in the UK digital rankings. SuperData Research has published its latest Top Ten for digital sales on console in June, finding that retail chart-toppers Batman Arkham Knight and The Elder Scrolls Online’s …
Read More »Batman Arkham Knight helps PS4 defeat Xbox One in June US charts
Batman isn’t just the world’s greatest detective and an all-around crime-fighting hero – he’s also a savvy marketing tool. The Dark Knight’s latest outing, Batman Arkham Knight, helped propel the US games market in June. Warner Bros’ title topped the software rankings for the month, according to market tracker The …
Read More »Fallout Shelter earned $5.1m in two weeks – Superdata
The iOS release of Fallout Shelter pulled in more than $5m in its first two weeks, according to Superdata’s latest monthly report on digital sales figures. The company credits the spin-off’s success to Bethesda pulling off the minor miracle of getting core gamers to step into and stick around for …
Read More »International Insight: America
It might be the land of the free, but is it the land of free-to-play? As the industry recovers from another huge E3 showing, SuperData CEO Joost van Dreunen examines the state of games in the US of A In America everything is bigger – and its games market is …
Read More »Gaming video content now makes $3.8bn, Twitch more prosperous than YouTube
As the audience for gaming video content nears half a billion people, a new report has highlighted live streaming’s quick rise to the top. 468 million viewers around the world now digest games-related video content such as walkthroughs, trailers and live streams, according to research firm SuperData’s Gaming Video Content …
Read More »Real-world strategies for virtual reality
SuperData's Joost van Dreunen on how Oculus, Valve, Sony, Microsoft and Google are taking on the market
Read More »The Witcher 3 UK console downloads hit 144,000 in May
Almost 150,000 UK console gamers downloaded The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in May, the latest numbers from SuperData revealed. The UK download chart – which launched last month in Beta and MCV ran exclusively – shows just how successful games are in terms of both individual unit sales and total …
Read More »User-generated content is the future
Joost van Dreunen discusses how developers can embrace mods, YouTube videos and more
Read More »The three rules of attending E3
SuperData's Joost van Dreunen discusses the merits of the annual games conference
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