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Digital game spending reached $4.36B for Black Friday
Digital gaming spending for Black Friday 2019 topped $4.36 billion according to SuperData. The total was calculated from spending across the period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. SuperData has explained that digital spending for the period has increased year-on-year by 9 percent. It’s thought that major game releases such as Death Stranding and Call […]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sold 4.75M digital units in its first month
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has sold 4.75 million digital units in its first month on sale, making it the best digital game launch of 2019 to date.
Worldwide digital games market report for October 2019
Digital Chart, October 2019:
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
2. FIFA 20
3. Destiny 2
Is reselling game keys legitimate?
Gamesindustry.biz has published a quite thorough legal analysis of the issue of reselling video game keys and associated controversies.
Almost half of all EA’s game sales now digital
Digital sales are up by 7 percent year-on-year for Electronic Arts, with 47 percent of all sales for the quarter being digital.
Digital sales almost overtake physical sales in Europe
Digital Game Sales Data (GSD) has revealed a trend towards digital rather than boxed AAA games purchases in Europe in 2019.
Total War: Three Kingdoms tops first UK digital chart
UK Digital chart. Week of May 25, 2019:
1. Total War: Three Kingdoms
2. Grand Theft Auto 5
3. Monopoly Plus
Worldwide digital games market report for April 2019
During April 2019 digital games for PC sales slowed while digital games for consoles sales saw a growth.
Worldwide digital games spending grows in February 2019
Superdata have released their report on the worldwide digital games market for February 2019. The report shows that spending on digital games across the PC and mobile segments grew by 2 percent year-on-year to $8.2 billion. The mobile segment in particular is what boosted digital spending for the period, showing 9 percent growth year-on-year. This […]
Reselling unauthorized game keys now illegal in Japan
After a revision of Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act a number of new amendments outlawing of the resale of unauthorized digital game keys.
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