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Frostpunk sold 250k copies in 66 hours News Apr 27th, 2018

Frostpunk sold 250k copies in 66 hours

Not bad.

Shovel Knight has sold 2m copies News Apr 16th, 2018

Shovel Knight has sold 2m copies

24.4 per cent of sales on Windows

Far Cry 5 is Ubisoft's second-biggest launch ever News Apr 5th, 2018

Far Cry 5 is Ubisoft's second-biggest launch ever

Made $310m in its first week on sale

Sea of Thieves has two million players a week after launch News Mar 28th, 2018

Sea of Thieves has two million players a week after launch

Is the best-selling Microsoft game of this generation

Half of Steam’s 2017 revenue generated by top 100 games News Mar 23rd, 2018

Half of Steam’s 2017 revenue generated by top 100 games

SteamSpy GDC panel reveals more than a third of all Steam games were released last year alone

Human: Fall Flat hits 1.7m sales on PC News Feb 15th, 2018

Human: Fall Flat hits 1.7m sales on PC

Has sold two million across all platforms

The average 'good' indie game makes just $25,000 in its first year on sale, says Grey Alien's Birkett Interviews & Opinion Feb 6th, 2018

The average 'good' indie game makes just $25,000 in its first year on sale, says Grey Alien's Birkett

Birkett shares his research about how indie games perform in the first week and first year

Minecraft saw 74m monthly active users in December News Jan 22nd, 2018

Minecraft saw 74m monthly active users in December

144m copies sold across all platforms, Marketplace saw its strongest month also

Cuphead smashes 2m sales barrier News Dec 21st, 2017

Cuphead smashes 2m sales barrier

1930s-styled indie run-and-gun title goes double platinum after just under 12 weeks

Doki Doki Literature Club has been downloaded 1m times News Dec 11th, 2017

Doki Doki Literature Club has been downloaded 1m times

"I’m doing my best to keep up with everything business- and development-related so that I can give the community more of what they want"

Cities: Skylines has sold more than 4m copies News Sep 20th, 2017

Cities: Skylines has sold more than 4m copies

Has sold half a million units since March of this year

1m copies of Football Manager 2017 have been sold News Aug 21st, 2017

1m copies of Football Manager 2017 have been sold

Sports Interactive chief Miles Jacobson reveals this is the fifth Football Manager game in a row to hit this milestone

Why did 500k people pay for Epic’s free-to-play title Fortnite on its first day? Success Story Aug 11th, 2017

Why did 500k people pay for Epic’s free-to-play title Fortnite on its first day?

Despite going free-to-play in 2018, half a million people just paid at least $39.99 for Fortnite

Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players News Aug 8th, 2017

Final Fantasy XIV hits 10m players

MMO's cumulative players have almost doubled in the last year

Hitman now has more than 5m players News Aug 3rd, 2017

Hitman now has more than 5m players

Good news for a newly independent IO Interactive

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