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Zynga faces lawsuit over data breach News Mar 5th, 2020

Zynga faces lawsuit over data breach

It happened in September 2019

SuperData defends Fortnite figures following Epic criticisms News Feb 28th, 2020

SuperData defends Fortnite figures following Epic criticisms

Games studio claims that the research firm's methods are inaccurate

Inside Track: Why short-form video company Medal is getting into the data game Feature Feb 21st, 2020

Inside Track: Why short-form video company Medal is getting into the data game

"We have an incentive to help make the content creators who use Medal more effective at growing their audiences"

US Witcher 3 sales up 554% following Netflix show News Feb 14th, 2020

US Witcher 3 sales up 554% following Netflix show

According to market tracker NPD

Steam hit 95m monthly active users in 2019 News Feb 6th, 2020

Steam hit 95m monthly active users in 2019

Oh, and 20,789,726,718 hours of games were played on Steam during 2019. Which is insane.

Steam smashes concurrent user figure as 18.8m concurrent players logged in at once News Feb 3rd, 2020

Steam smashes concurrent user figure as 18.8m concurrent players logged in at once

That's 300,000 more than the previous simultaneous user figure for Valve's platform

FIFA 20 topped Europe's digital and physical charts last week News Dec 16th, 2019

FIFA 20 topped Europe's digital and physical charts last week

For the sixth week since launch

SuperData: COD Modern Warfare sold almost 5m copies digitally across PC and console in October News Nov 25th, 2019

SuperData: COD Modern Warfare sold almost 5m copies digitally across PC and console in October

Meanwhile, Apex Legends brought in $45m in revenue for the month

Legends of Runeterra streams have been watched for 2.5m hours on Twitch already News Oct 17th, 2019

Legends of Runeterra streams have been watched for 2.5m hours on Twitch already

New free-to-play card title is the eighth most-watched game on the platform for the last three days

World of Warcraft Twitch viewership more-than doubled in Q3 News Oct 15th, 2019

World of Warcraft Twitch viewership more-than doubled in Q3

Fortnite sees a decline in viewership of 20 per cent in the three month period

Report: 51% per cent of Destiny 2's active user base is on PC News Oct 10th, 2019

Report: 51% per cent of Destiny 2's active user base is on PC

51 per cent of users at time of writing

Facebook denies rumour its Oculus VR headsets are gathering user room data News Sep 6th, 2019

Facebook denies rumour its Oculus VR headsets are gathering user room data

“The only information we keep on our servers consists of performance metrics that don’t contain any recognisable detail about your environment”

Digital revenue grew 2%year-on-year to $9.2 billion in June News Jul 26th, 2019

Digital revenue grew 2%year-on-year to $9.2 billion in June

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled sold 552,000 digital units

Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1bn in 2018 News May 23rd, 2019

Australia and New Zealand games markets worth combined $3.1bn in 2018

Former worth $2.8bn; the latter $355.6m

REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry News Apr 8th, 2019

REVEALED: Latest figures show a widening gender pay gap in the UK games industry

Median hourly wage gap widens by 4.78 per cent, mean figure shows four per cent broadening

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