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"The initial sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have greatly exceeded our expectations"
Read More »Animal Crossing: New Horizons surpasses lifetime sales predictions within two months
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COVID-19 is packing releases into H2 – alongside new console launches – making for a titanic fight for consumer attention post-lockdown
A lot of product and a lot of marketing spend, will try to find potentially elusive eyeballs, in a compressed period of time.
Read More »UK consumers spent £5.35bn on games in 2019
Digital and online revenues remain strong while physical game sales fall 21.7 per cent.
Read More »‘Preparations’ for Gamescom are still underway, say organisers
"The preparations for the [event] are continuing as planned according to the current state for the determined date"
Read More »Ukie and Sheridans partner to provide free COVID-19 advice and guidance for the UK games industry
"The Covid-19 outbreak is presenting some serious challenges to games businesses"
Read More »Develop:Brighton 2020 is still going ahead, says organiser
"However, we are evaluating this situation on a daily basis and will continue to do so over the coming weeks"
Read More »Niantic makes changes to its games in response to COVID-19
"Thank you for your understanding, and safe battles!"
Read More »NG20 hopes to press ahead with May event but schedules NG20+ in November, too
"After much deliberation, we have decided to continue with our May event in a flexible format"
Read More »Steam once again breaks its own concurrent player record, hitting 20 million players over the weekend
6.2 million of that 20 million were actively in-game, too
Read More »Rockstar implements homeworking as COVID-19 pandemic continues
"We are confident we have a robust system in place for our teams to continue their work with a minimum of disruption"
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