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Americans spent $43.4 billion last year
Read More »US video game sales hit a record high in 2018
Total play-time on Steam up by 88 per cent in 2018, says Green Man Gaming
F2P tops the most-played charts as Counter Strike: Global Defensive takes top spot
Read More »Americans spent almost 7 billion hours playing mobile games in 2018
That's roughly 21 hours and six minutes for every person in the country
Read More »Global gaming industry expected to generate $135bn by end of 2018
Console gaming spend up 15.2% YoY
Read More »Sony’s ‘My PS4 Life’ videos indicate the full player counts for PlayStation 4 games
GTA V takes the top spot with an estimated 51,700,000 players
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront’s PS4 player base bigger that Xbox One and PC combined, report claims
It looks like PS4 is ruling the roost when it comes to EA’s new shooter Star Wars Battlefront. Polygon picked up on numbers from a third-party stat-tracking site that suggest the number of gamers playing the game on PS4 is more than the combined total of those on both Xbox …
Read More »3.2m people play Destiny every day
Bungie has revealed a host of impressive Destiny stats a month on from the game’s launch. The studio says that on average 3.2m people currently play Destiny every day, with each on average playing for three hours. That includes weekends, too. The average Destiny owner has played the game 20.9 …
Read More »INFOGRAPHIC: Some very large Call of Duty numbers
Activision has just sent out an infographic detailing a history of the Call of Duty series’ multiplayer mode. It says that a total of 100m people have played Call of Duty – which, as it handily points out is more than the populations of EU nations such as the UK, …
Read More »Mario Party 9 and Animal Crossing named in Guardian’s violent games Axis of Evil
Call of Duty, Halo 4, Far Cry, Borderlands – all violent games, yes, but the real damage is being done by those that conceal their violence behind a duplicitous family-friendly wrapping. Yesterday The Guardian published a feature entitled ‘Violence and guns in best-selling video games‘ that, to be fair to …
Read More »699 games kick started by Kickstarter
A total of 699 games projects have been successfully bankrolled by creative funding project Kickstarter. The site allows creative types to pitch ideas to the public who are then able to make a monetary donation. Of these, three potential games have raised in excess of $1m. 31 have raised between …
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