Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

This week Bethesda Softworks announced that the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax Media had passed away.

Activision Blizzard has reported their financial results for 2020, which show that Call of Duty has had very good results.

US Charts, Week of January 30, 2021:
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Australian Chart, Week of Jan 24, 2021:
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
2. Hitman 3
3. Grand Theft Auto 5

Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the expansion for Insomniac Games’ incredible Marvel’s Spider-Man, has now hit 4.1 million copies.

Following a vote from Codemasters’ shareholders, Electronic Arts is now one step closer to owning the racing genre giant.

Publisher EA has given fans a release date for their incredibly popular battle royale title, Apex Legends, on Nintendo Switch.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition, the remastered trilogy of the first three Mass Effect games will hit shelves on May 14, 2021.

EA has managed to secure an extension to their license with UEFA, revealing a few new projects that are now in the works behind the scenes.

Google’s internal game development studio for Stadia, the company’s game streaming service, is being shut down.