Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

Respawn Entertainment’s surprise release, Apex Legends, has now hit 50 million total players worldwide within the first month after launch.

It was reported today that a law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Activision Blizzard on behalf of the company’s shareholders.

Early yesterday a part of the Anthem community started reporting that the game was causing their PlayStation 4 console to quit the game and shut down without being prompted.

European Charts. Week of Feb 24, 2019:
1. Anthem – EA Games
2. Far Cry New Dawn – Ubisoft
3. FIFA 19 – EA Sports

UK Charts. Week of March 2, 2019:
1. Anthem – EA Games
2. FIFA 19 – EA Sports
3. Far Cry New Dawn – Ubisoft

Guerrilla Games has announced that 10 million copies of the PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn have now been sold worldwide.

Nintendo released some interesting statistics about their work culture, including information on average earnings of employees and their working hours.

UK retail chart, February 2019:
1. Kingdom Hearts 3
2. Anthem
3. Red Dead Redemption 2

Today CD Projekt Red confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will be coming to E3 this year. No clarification on the game’s release date has been made yet.

Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 2, which released earlier this year, has now reached 4 million copies shipped.