With no E3 this year, you might have wondered just how well the biggest players in the video game industry were going to do without a weeklong onslaught of gaming hype to give them free advertising. Turns out, that the long game of constant announcements over many weeks was just as effective!
Marvel’s Spider-Man to Dragon Quest 11, Green Day’s ballad of a month-long slumber proved to be entirely incorrect as gamers worldwide stayed awake and burnt the midnight oil so that they could enjoy some new releases. Big games, big names and even bigger financial results defined the month. The biggest surprise though? That Destiny 2 was the most profitable game of the lot.
According to SuperData, Fortnite isn’t just nipping away at the heels of its inspiration competition PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, it’s gobbling away at its playerbase entirely.
Blah blah blah blah PUBG, blah blah blah blah popular, blah blah millions of players. That seems to be all you ever hear about the unbelievably popular Battle Royale game. The numbers back it up though.
Video Gaming Content is dominating viewership in 2017, but that's easily understandable.
If you listen to Ubisoft, their Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the most popular, highest-earning game to be released this year – and they’re right! It’s some very specific wording though, because the overall top-earning games weren’t released in 2017.
Many people love watching others play or opine about video games. According to the researchers at SuperData, more than you could possible imagine.
Horizon Zero Dawn is out on 28 February in the US, and a day later in much of the rest of the world. By the end of this year, it should have sold at least 4 million copies.
Humans want connection and the internet is so far the best connection machine. A …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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