Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

Developer FromSoftware has announced that its Dark Souls franchise has now topped 27 million sales around the world.

UK Charts. Week of May 16, 2020:
1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2. Grand Theft Auto 5
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

9 video game multi-millionaires can be found in the Sunday Times’ Rich List, a list of the wealthiest people in the UK published once per year.

US consumers spent almost $10.9 billion on games in Q1 2020, which is up by 9 percent year-on-year, and sets a brand new record for quarterly spending.

Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google over a game called Area F2, which they claim is little more than a carbon copy of Rainbow Six Siege.

Lab42 Limited, a work-for-hire studio, has been acquired by Sumo Digital. The amount, that the studio was purchased for, has not been disclosed.

Overnight, when GTA 5 was made available for free on the Epic Games Store, the storefront suffered some severe technical issues, causing it to go down.

Nintendo’s President, Shuntaro Furukawa, has revealed that about 50 percent of all sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have been digital.

Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite will be a launch game for the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

In order to unite their first-party studios, Sony is creating a new umbrella brand to cover them all, PlayStation Studios.