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Video games is no longer the biggest entertainment medium in the UK

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ERA, which is the UK trade body representing video, music and games retailers, says that revenue made by video games in the UK reached £4.74 That includes sales of digital and physical video games, covering PC, mobile and consoles. billion, a rise of 2.9% over the year before.

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How can Nintendo Switch 2 surpass its predecessor? | Opinion

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Nintendo fully revealed the console almost exactly seven years ago. It held an event at Hammersmith in London to showcase the product to media, retail and assorted industry people and celebrities. A group of us convened in a pub afterwards and the view was unanimous: this might be Nintendo's last console. Read more

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Industry Voices: Social mobility and the games industry: how an industry worth £4.6 billion is failing its talent

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Dan Ahern, QA lead at Radical Forge talks about social mobility in the games industry - MCV/DEVELOP

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The Play Pendulum • A theory of innovation cycles in interactive entertainment

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Atari led the charge, creating new types of games for home consoles. Atari’s strategy centered on creating a wide variety of games, emphasizing the abundance of titles available for their consoles. For instance, Atari ordered 12 million units of Pac-Man in 1982, expecting to expand beyond their 10 million console install base.

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Aldora market forecast 2025: Game Industry is slowly moving upward

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Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 Console gaming is on track to reach $44.9 Console gaming is on track to reach $44.9 Console hardware sales are projected to decline sharply by 31% in 2024 and another -11% in 2025E, due to the end of the current console generation cycle.

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Newzoo: Global games market expected to increase 2.6% in 2023

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Mobile revenue due to increase 0.8% billion Consoles expected to produce $56.1 The mobile market is due to reach $92.6 The mobile market is due to reach $92.6 At a glance: Market estimated to generate $187.7 billion in 2023, up 2.6% billion in 2023, a 2.6% increase year-on-year, according to Newzoo's latest report.

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Epic Games Store to trade revenue share for exclusivity window

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The Epic Games Store is taking another approach to combating Steam, as Epic today announced a new opt-in First Run Program that will trade the company's share of revenues for the first six months of release in exchange for exclusivity.

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