Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

Press outlets are announcing their Game of the Year Awards, two of which gave the award to the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, IGN and Gamespot.

Cuphead developer StudioMDHR has announced that their indie platformer game Cuphead had reached 2 million copies sold worldwide, the equivalent of double platinum.

Since its launch on October 27, 2017 Super Mario Odyssey has sold over 1 million physical copies in Japan.

Puzzle platformer adventure game Catherine has had a remastered version announced for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, Catherine: Full Body.

GamesIndustry.biz reported that half of all physical UK games sales in 2017 were for Playstation 4. This makes 2017 the first year on record that a single console has…

GAME Digital announced that Craig Fletcher, Founder of Multiplay which GAME acquired in 2015, will be leaving the company at the end of 2017.

US Charts, November 2017:
1. Call of Duty WW2 – Activision
2. Star Wars: Battlefront II – EA Games
3. Assassin’s Creed: Origins – Ubisoft

Take-Two Interactive, parent company to Rockstar, the makers of the phenomenally popular Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead series, has announced the creation of a new independent gaming studio,…

PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) has hit 1 million players in the first 48 hours after it launched on Xbox One, meaning at least as many players have purchased the game.

UK Charts. Week ending on December 16, 2017:
1. Call of Duty WW2 – Activision
2. FIFA 18 – EA Sports
3. Star Wars Battlefront 2 – EA Games