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Epic’s success could be proving costly for its competitors
Read More »Fortnite might be cannibalising the microtransaction revenue from the industry’s biggest franchises
Digital charts: Fortnite breaks new record, Pokémon Go at its highest since 2016
Fortnite surpassed $300m in a single month this May, with growth mainly coming from the console versions
Read More »Fortnite becomes biggest free-to-play game ever while Far Cry 5 shifts 2.5m digital units in March
Meanwhile, Sea of Thieves had 1.7m monthly active users on console and 283,000 on PC for its launch month
Read More »Free-to-play console revenue up 359% year-on-year as Fortnite thrives
Despite Fortnite’s impressive growth, Call of Duty: WWII and FIFA 18 still remained at the top of the console digital charts in February
Read More »Dragon Ball FighterZ and Monster Hunter: World boost January digital spending to nearly $9bn
Dragon Ball FighterZ was the “most successful fighting game digital console launch of all time,” SuperData says
Read More »Take-Two: the industry is strong and any consolidation will come from outside
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick and Superdata's Joost van Dreunen on why we shouldn't expect any top-end publisher mergers
Read More »Global digital games spending up 17% in December
Digital revenue nearly reached $10bn worldwide, across all platforms.
Read More »SuperData: Add-on content sales are taking over the traditional one-time purchase model
Revenue from microtransactions in free-to-play PC titles is to reach $22bn (£16.4bn) in 2017 – a 15.7 per cent growth compared to last year, according to SuperData. Meanwhile, revenue from additional content for PC and console games will be on a par with last year, reaching $5bn (£3.7bn), and full …
Read More »Free-to-play PC revenue doubles in five years to $22 billion though in-game monetisation
New data from analytics firm SuperData shows that, despite the outcry, gamers are generating double the revenue they did in 2012 in the free-to-play PC market
Read More »Over 660m people watch gaming video content – SuperData
The analytics firm believe gaming video content to be the most important media platform since social media
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