The biggest spanner ever thrown into Valve’s dominance of the PC gaming market, Epic’s arrival has been both hailed as the best thing ever and criticised for a variety of reasons along the way. Has it been a profitable move for Epic so far then? Hell yeah.

According to Nintendo’s Pokémon Company in a Japanese press release regarding first-week sales, Sword and Shield has sold very VERY well.

Last month, steam rolled out its Remote Play together feature in beta, allowing those without proximity to friends to play games together over the internet. It works, and it works well enough that Valve has yanked the feature out of beta and put it into the main Steam client.

Black Friday is upon us soon. It’s that time of the year that both retailers and consumers seem to lose their minds, with one doing whatever they can to drop prices (like increasing them slowly in the preceding weeks), and consumers spotting for deals like hawks. Even though Black Friday has nothing at all to do with South Africa, over the years it’s become customary for people to hold on to their wealth like Bilbo Baggins clutching the one ring, so that they can blow it all on big-ticket items in the run-up to year’s end. We do quite like bargains.

Surprise! Grand Theft Auto V is a blockbuster! In news that should come as a shock to no one, Rockstar Games is still selling copies of their classic sandbox by the truckload. Back in May, it was reported that Grand Theft Auto V had crossed the 110 million copies sold mark, while a new quarterly fiscal report from Take Two Interactive has painted an even rosier picture for the game: Between May and November, that figure shot up to 115 million units sold.

Sony’s released it latest financial earning report, for the second quarter of their financial 2019. One of the more interesting titbits from the reports is that the PlayStation 4 has now gone on to sell more than 102.8m units

With several years of development, hype and a commitment to creating good games as opposed to glorified adverts for microtransactions, there’s an expectation that Cyberpunk 2077 is going to do stupidly well when it arrives next year.

In comparison to the Wii U, the success of the Switch has been nothing short of phenomenal, with the recent release of the Switch Lite only adding more coin to Nintendo’s coffers. So how well has it been selling? Very well! That’s according to Nintendo themselves, who say that combined sales of the Switch and Switch Lite now sit at over ten million units sold currently.