Nearly all of UK's 2022 games sales were digital downloads
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JANUARY 10, 2023
UK players spent 2022 buying games from their phone or consoles instead of dealing with traffic and physical lines.
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Elden Ring and Modern Warfare II among Steam's best-sold games of 2022
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DECEMBER 30, 2022
Valve's "Best of" list for 2022 includes some of the year's biggest hits and a few older titles.
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Game Developer’s best of 2022: Features of the year
Game Developer
DECEMBER 30, 2022
In case you missed them: just like a serving of delicious leftovers, here are a few of our favorite features and featured blogs from 2022.
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Game Developer's best of 2022: The events that defined the year
Game Developer
DECEMBER 23, 2022
From Twitter's maelstrom to Stadia's death sentence to devs offering support to Ukraine, these are the events that shaped 2022.
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Microsoft ended 2022 by deleting 7.51M "inauthentic" Xbox accounts
Game Developer
MAY 22, 2023
The back half of 2022 saw Microsoft step up its account enforcement game.
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Game Developer's best of 2022: The trends that defined the year
Game Developer
DECEMBER 23, 2022
From unionization efforts to pandemic cooldowns to mergers and acquisitions aplenty, these are the main trends of 2022.
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Game Developer's best of 2022: The best games of the year
Game Developer
DECEMBER 23, 2022
From Elden Ring to Immortality to Citizen Sleeper, these games were our editors' favorites in 2022.
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Unity's Q2 2023 earnings show significant growth from 2022
Game Developer
AUGUST 4, 2023
The engine maker's monetization-focused Grow Solutions division did better than expected with a revenue growth of nearly 160 percent compared to 2022's second quarter.
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Game Developer's best of 2022: Bryant Francis' Top 10 Games
Game Developer
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Senior Editor Bryant Francis picks his favorite games from 2022.
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Game Developer's Best of 2022: Chris Kerr's top five games
Game Developer
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Here's what caught (and held) the attention of Game Developer news editor Chris Kerr during 2022.
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Report: Activision failed to tell employees of 2022 data breach
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The data breach at Activision occurred in late 2022 and reportedly includes personal information of its employees.
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Game Developer's Best of 2022: Justin Carter's top five games
Game Developer
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Contributing editor Justin Carter looks back on 5 games from 2022 that surprised him with how much he appreciated them.
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Unity report shows sharp decline of in-app mobile spending during 2022's end
Game Developer
JUNE 13, 2023
Unity's new report on 2022's mobile game revenue shows in-game spending had a hard drop in revenue during the holiday season.
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Kickstarter's 2022 tabletop campaigns dipped in funding, had high success rate
Game Developer
JANUARY 24, 2023
The tabletop industry felt the economic strain during 2022, even as its Kickstarter campaigns had the highest success rates to date.
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Opinion: Let's revisit the big claims about blockchain games from 2022
Game Developer
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Was there any merit to the earth-shaking claims made by the blockchain games crowd in 2022? Let's look back.
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Over 10 million people downloaded the Meta Quest app in 2022
Game Developer
JANUARY 6, 2023
A new report from Omdia looks at download trends of the The Meta Quest app in 2022, which was up overall by 27% on 2021.
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Tencent fired over 100 workers on suspicion of corruption in 2022
Game Developer
JANUARY 16, 2023
The company indicated there has been some nefarious activity within its video game business.
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Genshin Impact , Tiny Tina's Wonderlands among Epic's most-played 2022 games
Game Developer
MARCH 9, 2023
Epic's Year in Review reveals some interesting statistics for its games store in 2022.
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Deep Dive: Recreating the high octane broadcast experience in F1 Manager 2022
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
"There’s always a deep synergy between what players can see and what they can hear, but with F1 Manager 2022 we had a clear vision to bring the TV broadcast experience to life."
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Ubisoft laid off 1,700 workers on the path to its highest net bookings ever
Game Developer
MAY 15, 2024
percent in 2023 through 2024, but it's laid off 1,700 employees since 2022. Ubisoft's net bookings rose 33.5
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Microsoft and Activision Blizzard accused of 'bad faith bargaining' by Raven Software union workers
Game Developer
AUGUST 28, 2024
Raven employees successfully unionised in 2022 but have now filed an NLRB complaint against their employer after struggling to secure their first collective bargaining agreement.
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Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield headline Steam's 2023 bestsellers
Game Developer
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Like 2022 before it, Valve's list of best-sellers for 2023 feature the year's biggest titles and games that have have been around for a year or longer.
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Second Dinner raises $100 million to continue growing Marvel Snap
Game Developer
JANUARY 8, 2024
The popular card battler has earned over $200 million since launching in 2022.
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Game Developer’s best of 2022: Danielle Riendeau’s top six games of the year
Game Developer
DECEMBER 29, 2022
From Into the Breach: Advanced Edition to Citizen Sleeper and Stray , these are the games that stuck with our EIC.
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Microsoft renews Blizzard and NetEase partnership to bring key titles back to China
Game Developer
APRIL 10, 2024
The two megacorps have rekindled their relationship following a high-profile split in 2022.
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Hidetaka Miyazaki among Time Magazine's influential people of 2023
Game Developer
APRIL 13, 2023
The massive success of Elden Ring in 2022 has led to its director, Hidetaka Miyazaki, being crowned one of Time Magazine's most important people of 2023.
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Report: Tencent wants to replicate Genshin Impact success with mobile version of Elden Ring
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The project has reportedly been in development since 2022 but is making slow progress.
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Epic, EA, and BioWare vets at Noodle Cat net $12 million to create new action RPG
Game Developer
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The studio was established in 2022 and is led by former Fortnite lead systems designer David Hunt.
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Dwarf Fortress sold close to 500,000 copies in December
Game Developer
JANUARY 6, 2023
version of the title debuted on December 6, 2022.
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Creative Assembly shooter Hyenas canceled by Sega with "structural reforms" on the horizon
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The Total War developer announced Hyenas in June 2022, but the project has now been tossed on the scrapheap.
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Swedish games industry worth €3.1bn in 2022
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 19, 2023
billion in 2022, according to the annual report from Sweden's games trade body Dataspelsbranschen. The number of people employed by the Swedish games industry increased 6% in 2022, to 8,445 people. Revenue generated by Swedish games companies in the country has grown 13% year-on-year, reaching €3.1 Read more
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MultiVersus returns with over 114K concurrent players at launch
Game Developer
MAY 29, 2024
WB's IP fighter came back with Steam player numbers not too far behind the peak of its open beta back in 2022.
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Roblox reports a nearly $1bn net loss during 2022
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Roblox released its fourth quarter full-year financial earnings for 2022 today and the firm saw jumps in revenue and bookings while losses deepened significantly. Here's what you need to know for the twelve months ending December 31, 2022: Read more
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Xbox patent offers first look at scrapped Keystone streaming console
Game Developer
JUNE 26, 2024
Microsoft killed its cloud-powered streaming device back in 2022, but the newly discovered patent gives an idea of what could have been.
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VR industry braces for setback: Omdia forecasts declining sales until 2026
Game Developer
DECEMBER 21, 2023
million in 2022. Headset sales suffered a 24% decline in 2023, plummeting to 7.7 million units from 10.1
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Amazon Games to publish new open-world driving title from Forza Horizon devs
Game Developer
MAY 29, 2024
Maverick Games, a studio established by former Playground Games devs in 2022, has found a publishing partner in Amazon Games.
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Blizzard cancels Odyssey MMO amid Microsoft layoffs
Game Developer
JANUARY 25, 2024
Blizzard Entertainment isn't just losing staff, it's also killed its mysterious Odyssey MMO it first mentioned in 2022.
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Virtuos Studios seemingly closes Calypte one year after opening
Game Developer
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Virtuos Studios subsidiary Calypte appears to be shutting down—just over one year since it launched in September 2022.
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Riot touts new employee benefits, more inclusion in 2022 impact report
Game Developer
APRIL 26, 2023
It's that time of year where Riot releases a new report highlighting how inclusive it's been for its employees and how its inclusion initiatives have affected the wider world.
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UK games market dipped to £7.05bn in 2022
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 4, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The UK video games market shrank slightly in 2022, with spending on software, hardware and other related products slipping to £7.05 less than the record-breaking £7.47 billion achieved in 2021, and marks the first decline in spending since 2019.
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GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year In Numbers 2022
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 20, 2022
2022 has been a busy year for GamesIndustry.biz (and continues to be so. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. Could the news slow down please? It's nearly Christmas).
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Chinese regulators approved nearly 1,100 games in 2023
Game Developer
JANUARY 3, 2024
Even with its newest regulation proposals, China's government ended 2023 approving over double the games for release than it did in 2022.
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Made with Unity: 2022 in review
Unity Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Sit back, relax, and enjoy this roundup of highlights of Made with Unity games from 2022. It can be hard for us – let alone all of you – to keep up with everything that the Unity community is creating at any given moment.
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Koei Tecmo sales jump 7.8% in 2022 to hit $589m
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 26, 2023
million throughout the fiscal year of 2022. Here's what you need to know for the financial earnings from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023: Read more Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Games firm Koei Tecmo saw its net sales reach $588.5
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