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July 20th, 2020, 22:46 Posted By: wraggster
F1 2020 is this week's No.1 in the UK physical retail charts.
The annual racing series by Codemasters enjoyed its biggest opening week since 2017, with launch boxed sales up 22% over last year's entry.
The game may have been buoyed by the restart of the F1 racing series following its hiatus due to the lockdown.
It does mean that the The Last of Us Part 2 ends its stay at the summit after three consecutive weeks at No.1. In fact, the PS4 game dropped in sales 48% week-on-week and slips to No.3, behind Animal Crossing: New Horizons at No.2.
Last week's big new release, Marvel's Iron Man VR, takes a fall from No.2 to No.9 after a 75% drop in sales week-on-week. The game is still tracking well ahead of last year's big PlayStation VR release, Blood & Truth. PSVR games do tend to bounce back in the charts whenever the hardware is discounted at retail.
Speaking of games that bounce up and down the charts depending on hardware performance, Mario Kart 8: Deluxe is back at No.4 after a 50% spike in boxed sales week-on-week. The game tends to perform strongly whenever Nintendo Switch consoles come back in stock, particularly the standard model (as opposed to the Lite version).
Lower down the charts, there are a couple of other new releases for Nintendo Switch. At No.21, you will find Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, which is a remake of a popular Harvest Moon game that was released on Game Boy Advance in 2003.
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July 20th, 2020, 22:41 Posted By: wraggster
More than 214 million people in the US in 2020 play video games at least one hour per week, and three-quarters of all US households include at least one person who plays video games.
That's according to the ESA's 2020 Essential Facts About the Video Game Industry report, which includes data from a July 2020 survey of 4,000 Americans conducted by Ipsos.
It concludes that 64% of US adults, and 70% of those in the US under age 18 play video games regularly, with 38% of all gamers falling into the 18-34 age range and 21% under the age of 18. 6% of gamers are 65 or older.
That makes approximately 169 million gaming adults in the US -- up from 164 million reported in 2019.
By gender breakdown, the survey reports that 41% of all gamers in the US are women -- down from 44% last year and 45% in 2018.
The gender split seems to fluctuate evenly from year to year -- with additional data from the ESA shared with GamesIndustry.biz demonstrating that the percentage of women who play games in the US has bounced between 44% and 41% over the last five years.
And according to data shared by AbleGamers, there are around 46 million video game players in the United States with disabilities.
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July 20th, 2020, 22:35 Posted By: wraggster
GameStop has announced it is requiring all customers to wear face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19, but reportedly will not allow employees to enforce the policy.
In a press release today, GameStop said it will begin to implement its new requirement on July 27, to give the company time to inform customers of the change through signage and training for store employees.
However, according to employees speaking to Kotaku, they will not be able to enforce the policy by refusing service to customers who don't wear masks.
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July 20th, 2020, 22:33 Posted By: wraggster
Google Play has blocked a game about the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia from releasing on its platform in Germany, France, Austria, and Russia.
Originally released on PC two years ago, Attentat 1942 from Charles Games was developed with historians at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The game sells itself as a historically accurate story, told from the perspective of survivors of Nazi oppression.
However, in an email to Charles Games, Google said Attentat 1942 had been rejected because it includes references to Nazis.
The first rejection came on July 7 after the developer spent six months porting the game to mobile, with Google saying it contained content that was "prohibited" in these regions.
Until 2018, Germany enforced a blanket ban against Nazi iconography in games, and many titles such as Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus were altered to meet certain standards.
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July 20th, 2020, 22:31 Posted By: wraggster
Metacritic has changed the way its user reviews system works for games, now preventing people from adding their own ratings until more than day after a title launches.
The change appears to have first been noticed by members of the ResetEra forums earlier this month. A post showed that the PlayStation 4 version of indie puzzle game Superliminal was not open to user reviews until 12pm PST on July 9, 2020, despite the game launching on July 7.
Forbes confirmed this with a screenshot of the reviews page for last week's Ghost of Tsushima, which showed user reviews were blocked until 12pm PST on July 18, approximately 36 hours after its launch on July 17.
Both instances bear the message: "Please spend time playing the game."
The change is believed to be a reaction to the ongoing use of user reviews as a form of protest from some consumers. Metacritic users have been known to post reviews on the day of release, and sometimes even before, often with negative comments and scores to bring the user rating down.
The most recent example was PS4 exclusive The Last of Us Part 2, which has sparked controversy among certain corners of the series fanbase due to some of the story decisions made and the content of leaks that emerged ahead of the game's launch.
In Forbes' example, the user score stood at 3.4 out of 10 based on more than 5,000 reviews, despite the critics' average score amounting to 95 out of 100. At the time of writing, the user score has risen slightly to 5.5 based on more than 130,000 user reviews.
Review-bombing is a common form of protest on online games sites. Last year, Valve attempted to prevent it on Steam by marking a flood of new negative reviews for the seven-year-old Borderlands 2 as 'off-topic review activity.'
The reviews followed complaints that Borderlands 3 would be temporarily exclusive to Epic Games Store.
Update: Metacritic has responded to GamesIndustry.biz and confirmed the change, adding that it only applies to the games section and not other forms of entertainment.
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July 20th, 2020, 22:30 Posted By: wraggster
The Last of Us Part 2's debut led another big month for video game software sales in the US, supported by the usual cadre of Nintendo Switch titles -- including the return of Ring Fit Adventure to store shelves.
According to The NPD Group's data and analysis by Mat Piscatella, overall spending on games in June was up 26% year-over-year to $1.2 billion, the highest June spending's been since 2009.
Specifically, hardware spending was down in June by 17% year-over-year to $191 million, with the Nintendo Switch continuing its trend as the best-selling console in both unit and dollar sales.
Accessories sales, however, were up 29% year-over-year to $417 million, with new dollar sales records across multiple categories including gamepads, headsets, steering wheels, and controller enhancements. The Xbox Elite Series 2 Wireless Controller was both the best-selling accessory for the month and for 2020 so far.
Finally, in software, dollar sales in June were up 49% year-over-year to $570 million -- the highest total for a June month since 2010.
By title, The Last of Us: Part 2 debuted at No.1 and is now the third best-selling game of the year, behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at No.1 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons at No.2. Final Fantasy VII Remake was bumped to No.4 year-to-date.
Additionally, The Last of Us: Part 2 reached both the highest launch month dollar sales of any 2020 new release so far, and the second-highest launch month dollar sales for a Sony-published game in history, second only to Marvel's Spider-Man.
Ring Fit Adventure saw an enormous leap, from No.835 last month to No.7 thanks to significant increases in stock following a long period of unavailability due to COVID-19 impacts on hardware production and high demand due to stay-at-home orders.
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July 15th, 2020, 20:40 Posted By: Shrygue
via Eurogamer
Konami has called off its expected plan to launch a full version of PES 2021, to focus on a full next-gen version due next year.
A "season update" to PES 2020 will be sold instead, Konami explained, for "an affordable anniversary price".
While Konami is skimping on this year's release, the developer is hard at work on a version designed for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X that will move the game's engine over to Unreal.
A short clip released alongside today's announcement shows famous footballer Messi reproduced in Unreal, giving the camera a little smile.
"This title is being developed with an updated engine that will enable us to dazzle you with staggering improvements to all areas of the game," Konami wrote of next year's effort. "Expect more realistic player models and animations, enhanced physics, photorealistic visuals, and much much more.
"We recognise that many of you are enthusiastic for new myClub and Master League content, and we are also excited to share that large updates are in the works for both of these modes.
"Currently, we aim to begin testing of our next-gen title sometime in mid-2021, with an estimated release date later in the same year."
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July 6th, 2020, 22:16 Posted By: wraggster
There are two Sony games at the summit of the UK charts this week, with Marvel's Iron Man VR debuting at No.2.
The title performed well in its first week, but couldn't do enough to end the dominance of Sony's other recent big hit, The Last of Us Part 2. The action horror game retains its No.1 position despite a 53% drop in sales week-on-week.
Iron Man was the only new boxed release in the charts this week, although the continued stock clearance of classic 3DS games continues to have an impact. Bravely Second: End Layer is still in the top five at No.4, and has now sold more in two weeks than in the previous four years. Meanwhile, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer has returned at No.13 and Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash is back at No.34.
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July 3rd, 2020, 22:48 Posted By: wraggster
PlayStation dominated June thanks to the release of The Last of Us Part 2, according to the latest GfK market data.
The game was comfortably the No.1 boxed title of the month, selling more copies than the rest of the top ten combined.
The action horror game, alongside continued strong sales of The Last of Us Remastered, Spider-Man, Days Gone, Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War, meant that Sony unseated Nintendo as the UK's biggest games publisher for the month. Over 29% of all boxed games sold in the UK during June were published by Sony, with the company also generating 37% of the month's boxed software revenue.
The next highest charting new boxed game was Nintendo's Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition at No.10, followed by another Nintendo title, 51 Worldwide Games, at No.13.
Overall it was a big month for boxed sales, with 1.24 million games sold during the period. That's a rise of almost 44% over May, which was notable for lacking any major new releases. June is the second biggest month of the year for game sales after March.
It was also a strong month for console sales, with sales up 41% during June compared with the same period the year before. Sales of consoles have been very strong since the start of the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, things do appear to be slowing, with console sales down 12% compared with May. The UK began easing lockdown restrictions during June, with an increase in people returning to work.
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June 29th, 2020, 17:17 Posted By: wraggster
It's an unusual UK boxed chart this week, with several 3DS titles making the top 40.
The No.1 game, however, is far from surprising. PS4 exclusive The Last of Us Part 2 holds No.1 for a second consecutive week. Sales of the game dropped 80% week-on-week, which is a heavy fall, but not unusual for a game that sold as strongly as this one did in its first week, when it eclipsed Uncharted 4's debut to become the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive.
By comparison, Uncharted 4 dropped 78% in sales during its second week. It's worth noting that this is purely boxed sales, and digital download sales have increased significantly since Uncharted 4 was released in 2016, therefore comparisons between the two games need to be taken in that context.
There are actually two The Last of Us games in the top ten this week, with The Last of Us: Remastered at No.9 after an 82% rise in sales week-on-week.
Now onto the surprising game at No.2 -- Bravely Second: End Layer, the 3DS title by Square Enix. The RPG sold three times more physical copies last week than when it was released in February 2016, and its all-time boxed sales have practically doubled in one week. This is because the game was heavily reduced in price at UK retailer Argos, where the game could be bought for Ł2.49 (with the limited edition for Ł3.99).
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June 28th, 2020, 11:32 Posted By: wraggster
This week we have something really special.
Thanks to Mark for sending over the complete 11 magazine set of Total Control, we are able to present you today with the very first issue of this underrated magazine.
This one is still a preliminary version though, so it has not been fully edited yet and has yet to go through all the steps to make it shine as it did the day it hit the news stands.
So you can find it in our new Preliminary Magazine Section of the site, alongside a growing number of magazines, which are ready to be downloaded and read in full, but which I feel still need plenty of work to give them a final release.
Enjoy!
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June 28th, 2020, 11:08 Posted By: wraggster
Console games are expected to generate more than $2 billion in revenue per year in China by 2024.
That's according to a new report by Niko Partners, via GamesBeat, which looked at the predicted growth of home consoles in the region.
Last year, revenues from consoles and their games reached $997 million, but the analyst firm believes this will reach $2.15 billion now that such devices are sold legally in China.
For decades, home consoles were banned in China, leading to the rise of the free-to-play mobile and PC market that dominate's the nation's gaming scene.
But with China allowing the sale of official consoles since 2014 -- lifting the full ban a year later -- the momentum of PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo is expected to dramatically grow this market.
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June 28th, 2020, 11:07 Posted By: wraggster
The Australian games industry brought in total revenues of $3.16 billion in 2019, seeing its first decline in value since 2012.
In a report published by the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association, the trade body says that the success of Fortnite driving sales in 2018 was simply unmatchable by 2019's releases, causing an overall 10% decline in the regional market.
Boxed retail sales were down 21%, reaching $928 million in 2019. Broken down, hardware reached $332 million (down 23%), software was at $425 million (down 18%), and accessories were at $170 million (down 26%).
Meanwhile, overall digital sales were down 6% to $2.69 billion, with all digital games sales accounting for $1.4 billion of the total and down 8%. Mobile revenue accounted for another $1 billion, down 10% year-over-year.
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June 28th, 2020, 11:02 Posted By: wraggster
US gaming sales in May were up significantly year-over-year, but the pace of growth slowed somewhat as the country the third month since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
The NPD today released its numbers for US gaming sales in May, showing overall sales of hardware, physical games, downloaded full games (from a panel of 14 major publishers), and video game accessories totaled $977 million for the month, up 52% year-over-year and reaching the highest total for May since 2008.
The pace of growth was down somewhat from April, when overall game sales were up 73% year-over-year.
Software sales for May were up 67% year-over-year to $438 million despite a middling month for new releases. The best-selling new release of the month was Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition for the Switch, which debuted in the 14th spot on the charts.
Meanwhile, hardware sales were up 56% to $235 million, the highest May hardware total since 2010, with the Switch the best-selling system by both unit sales and dollars spent.
Growth in the accessories and game cards segment trailed software and hardware, as they were only up 32% to $304 million.
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June 28th, 2020, 10:51 Posted By: wraggster
The Last of Us Part 2 has shot to the top of the UK boxed charts in significant fashion.
The action horror game is Sony's fastest-selling release this generation, narrowly beating the opening week of 2016's Uncharted 4 by just over 1%. Download sales are not included in this data, so when we factor in digital sales, it's possible the game's launch was even bigger.
The Last of Us Part 2 is comfortably bigger than its PS3 predecessor, with launch sales 76% higher (although it's worth noting that PlayStation 4 is a more popular console than PlayStation 3).
As a result, it's the biggest UK launch for any boxed game released this year so far, with sales 40% higher than the previous best -- Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
It means for a third consecutive week, Ring Fit Adventure on Nintendo Switch must settle for second place, despite sales rising 31% week-on-week.
There were no other new releases in the charts this week, although the arrival of downloadable content for Pokémon Sword and Shield has seen those games rise up the rankings. Pokémon Sword is back at No.9 after a 51% increase in sales week-on-week, while Pokémon Shield is at No.22. Both games have enjoyed consecutive weeks of sales increases.
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June 28th, 2020, 10:50 Posted By: wraggster
After April's digital spending record of $10.5 billion due to COVID-19 lockdowns, May spending dipped only 3% to $10.2 billion as regions began to reopen.
According to SuperData's monthly report, digital console revenue was down 27% month-over-month due to fewer new releases, but was balanced by mobile revenue rising 3%.
Overall spending was up 14% year-over-year, with PC up 8%, mobile up 14%, and console up 23%.
In software, Minecraft Dungeons debuted at No.9 on the console charts and didn't crack the PC top 10 at all for digital spending, though it did achieve 1.8 million players.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...rictions-relax
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June 28th, 2020, 10:42 Posted By: wraggster
Twitch revealed this week it will be handing out permanent suspensions amid the latest wave of abuse allegations.
Earlier this week, dozens of people -- mainly young women -- came forward to highlight the abuses they had suffered, allegedly at the hands of notable streamers and content creators.
"We are reviewing each case that has come to light as quickly as possible, while ensuring appropriate due diligence as we assess these serious allegations," said Twitch in a blog post.
The video streaming platform said it is prioritising the most severe cases, and will issue suspension in-line with its findings.
As many of the accusations are of a criminal nature and took place off the platform, Twitch said it will report to relevant authorities. Users wishing to share information on a streamer can do so anonymously through their channel page.
Twitch is also taking a number of steps to combat harassment on its platform, including a review of its Hateful Conduct and Harassment policies, enhancing its offensive username detection, and making improvements to AutoMod and the Banned Word list.
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June 28th, 2020, 10:39 Posted By: wraggster
Amplified interest in gaming amid the coronavirus lockdown will see global games market revenue spike 9.3% this year to $159.3 billion.
That's according to the 2020 Global Games Market Report from market intelligence firm Newzoo.
Emerging markets like the Middle East and Africia have outpaced North America, and are close to surpassing Europe in terms of player growth, but effective monetisation in these regions remains a challenge.
The Middle East and African games market now now boasts 377 million players, and accounts for 3% of the global market revenue, growing 14.5% year-on-year to $5.4 billion,
It's a similar story in Latin America, which has over 266 million players, and accounts for 4% of the global games market, growing 10.3% to $6 million.
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June 8th, 2020, 18:13 Posted By: wraggster
FIFA 20 is back at the top of the UK boxed game charts.
EA's football game has been a mainstay in the Top Five over the past three months and it has become a home for fans of the sport since the real world leagues were put on hiatus in March. It surged in sales by 55% week-on-week thanks to a price drop to under Ł25.
The biggest riser of the week, however, is Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure at No.2. The fitness game received a big stock boost this week and was backed by a TV marketing campaign, and as a result sales surged by 1160% week-on-week.
Last week's No.1 Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition on Switch drops all the way down to No.28 after an 87% fall in sales.
The big new release of the week was also a Nintendo Switch game. 51 Worldwide Games debuts at No.6 and was also backed by a TV advertising campaign. The casual nature of this title means that it's likely to be a long-term seller, as opposed to the big opening week you would see from games aimed at hardcore audiences.
Sticking with Switch, Private Division's The Outer Worlds re-enters the charts at No.30 following the launch of the Nintendo Switch version of the game. The RPG was initially released late last year on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
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June 8th, 2020, 18:04 Posted By: wraggster
The UK government is expected to launch a call for evidence that will help it determine whether to reclassify video games with loot boxes as gambling products.
That's according to The Guardian, which reports the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will this week take the next step in its ongoing investigation into the impact of loot boxes, a monetisation mechanic that charges players for randomised items.
It is not quite clear what evidence the department requires, or when the deadline for this enquiry will be. GamesIndustry.biz has contacted DCMS for more information.
Concern about their use in video games spiked in 2017 -- particularly around the loot boxes originally planned for use in Star Wars Battlefront 2, which would have hindered progression for players who did not purchase these in-game items.
Since then, a DCMS committee has interviewed several representatives of the games industry about the use of this mechanic as part of an investigation into immersive and addictive technologies.
In September, the committee published its recommendations, including the assertion that paid loot boxes should be regulated under gambling law. The committee also called for a ban on the sale of games featuring loot boxes to children.
These recommendations were backed up by the UK Children's Commissioner, which also called for a ban on the sale of all non-cosmetic items, and the NHS's mental health director.
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