GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Honestly, there's two major things that need to happen for physical media to be a bigger thing on PC. First, retail stores take a 20% cut of sales while digital doesn't. That's a big chunk of money that the retail stores need to sustain themselves, but that the game publisher also doesn't have to pay when they sell games digitally.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Succinctly, the Play Pendulum theory suggests that the video game industry alternates between two primary types of innovation: content innovation and distribution innovation. With this framework in mind, we can explore how different eras of the industry have oscillated between content and distribution innovation.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Content stays king. growth), while PC gaming shows the strongest growth at 4.2%, reaching $31.4 However, this downturn is partially offset by the resilience in the gaming PC and laptop market. Some highlights from the report: The global market for interactive entertainment is on course to reach $250.2 year-over-year.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Since its launch in 2018, Epic Games Store has spent bucket loads of money on giving away free games, in order to attract PC gamers away from Steam. In 2022, the retail store front hit 68 million monthly active users and a peak daily active user base of 34 million. Success has been hard to come by.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Where applicable, strict guidelines are followed regarding explicit content, violence, and language to maintain an appropriate gaming environment for users of all ages. These tools help perform tests more efficiently and help find issues that would otherwise be impossible in a retail environment.

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Game Development News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. The …

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