Game industry business news

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 …

Nintendo has recently informed developers that 64GB game cards, allowing developers double the current maximum of 32GB to work with, will not be available for the Switch until 2019. This comes from a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter. Currently, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One …

With two weeks of chart data coming in today, we can announce that Call of Duty ticked off weeks eight and nine at No.1 as well. That now puts its level-pegging with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in terms of consecutive weeks at the top. Congratulations to Activision UK …

I came into the office for 2018 with a smile on my face, ready to explore the newest and most exciting trends in video games. Of course, this means my first feature of the year is to write about loot boxes, the discourse that dominated the industry during 2017’s last …

The games industry was recognised in the New Year’s Honours List with the inclusion of TIGA CEO Dr Richard Wilson, who received an OBE for services to the industry. Congratulations from everyone here at MCV. Wilson has been CEO of TIGA since 2008 and also serves as a director of …

What were the twelve highest-grossing games on Steam in 2017? Steam has now revealed those titles, though as with last year’s list the ‘Best of 2017 Top Sellers’ aren’t provided in any specific order or with any actual data. Instead the top grossing games are categorised into four medal categories. …

Valve has named the nine Most Played Steam games of 2017 as part of Steam’s Best of 2017 awards, based on hard data gathered by the platform throughout the year. Some housekeeping before we give you a rundown of the list.This list doesn’t actually compile the total players a game …

Speaking to MCV on the day of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 1.0 PC launch, PUBG Corp’s CEO CH Kim talked to us about continuing development of the game, and how they plan to monetise their games as a service approach. "We still plan to working harder on our server performance and further …

Today is the last day of news coverage at Develop for the year, and our last newsletter of the year

2017 is on the way out and while the world as a whole looks to be having a tough time, the games industry has delivered hit titles, bold new ideas and the life-dominating PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to keep us interested. Still, no time for nostalgia, a new year is calling. Have …