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Given the pandemic, putting a player alone in series of dark and dangerous places seems offbeat
Read More »PS5’s first global ad spot should have made more of the industry’s ability to bring people together
Ex-Valve contractor announces GameDataCrunch – a new Steam analytics platform for developers
“Publishers and PR agencies have told me that some of the views I'm working on here can take them hours of manual work to generate for a single title."
Read More »New curvier Xbox dashboard breaks cover with a raft of improvements
New dashboard design will come to all consoles, smartphones and PC
Read More »U.S. Mobile Gamers Flock to Simulation Titles as Genre Spending Grows 63% in H1 2020
Racing, hyper casual and casino titles also saw big rises
Read More »UK bank account data shows 71% rise in gaming spending during lockdown
“A growth in subscriptions on platforms like Playstation and Xbox have contributed to overall sales in gaming"
Read More »Total War: Troy claimed 7.5m times – an epic game, on Epic Game Store, is downloaded an epic number of times
A truly Epic occurence
Read More »Comment: Epic has little to lose from its bold Fortnite play on mobile
Craig Chapple is mobile insights strategist, EMEA at mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower and was senior editor at PocketGamer.biz.
Read More »Tim Sweeney picks a fight with Apple – with Fortnite parody of classic 1984 Apple advert
"Apple has become what it once railed against: the behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation."
Read More »xCloud vs iOS – Is the industry right to view Apple as the bad guy?
“Apple stands alone as the only generally purpose platform to deny consumers from cloud gaming and game subscription services like Xbox Game Pass"
Read More »2nd record-breaking quarter in a row as US sales hit $11.6bn
The pandemic continues to turbo-charge games sales around the globe. Today NPD reported that sales in Q2 (April to June) in the US hit an incredible $11.6bn. That’s a 30 per cent hike over the same period last year, which even at the tail end of the console cycle (with …
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