Lara sneaks to Steam No.1 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider

But it looks like the game hasn't done so well in the physical charts

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• steam charts
• shadow of the tomb raider

Adult games site Nutaku hits 115.2m visits each month

Traffic more than doubled in last five months

Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion allegedly tripled the game’s player count

Returning players and a PS Plus promotion boost numbers for the Bungie shooter

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• player stats

Report: Over half of US "active gamers" play on PC

35 per cent of American population use this platform for games

• research
• usa

Gamescom media coverage drops almost 20 per cent for 2018

Lowest point since Ico Partners started tracking

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• gamescom 2018

SCUM lasts another week on the run as it steals No.1 in the Steam Top Ten

Gamepires' survival sandbox has managed more ups than downs in its first few weeks on Steam

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• scum

Update: PUBG dips below 1m concurrent players for the first time in twelve months... days after reaching one-year streak

One hell of a record

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• battle royale
• pubg
• player stats

EA flaunts FIFA advantage following lacklustre PES 2019 sales

260m sales from the football franchise to date

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• pes
• pro evolution soccer
• fifa 19
• football

SCUM caps off first week with 700,000 players and a server wipe

Developer reminds players that Early Access means more wipes are likely in future

• early access
• player figures
• scum

SCUM breaks loose to take the top spot in this week’s Steam Top Ten

The simulationist survival sandbox has been Devolver Digital’s strongest launch yet

• steam charts

Updated: SCUM is Devolver's biggest launch yet, 250k copies sold in 24 hours

Obsessively detailed survival sandbox struggles to keep up with server demand following explosive launch

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• survival
• launch

EA stock down ten per cent following Battlefield V delay

Small bounce back after hours

• battlefield v
• finance
• share price
• $$$

Gamescom 2018 attracted 500,000 people to Cologne

15,000-person increase year-on-year, 31,200 trade visitors made it to this year's show

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• gamescom 2018
• devcom 2018
• attendee figures

Millions tune in for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal

Offical YouTube video boasts 4.7m views, concurrent high of 459,000 people on Twitch stream

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• cyberpunk 2077
• gameplay reveal

Sales bring Frostpunk and Dying Light back to the Steam Top Ten

Monster Hunter: World continues an unstoppable rampage at No. 1

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• dying light
• frostpunk