Call of Duty had 3 games in the top 20 in July, but Tom Clancy is 2017’s biggest franchise
Bright and colorful games like Splatoon 2 and Crash Bandicoot may have topped the sales chart in the heart of summer, but brown military...
Rollin’ in gil: RPG sales are up 50% from 2016
Role-playing games are having a big year in terms of sales, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. A number of RPGs have launched...
Nintendo Switch outsold PlayStation 4 and Xbox One last month
Nintendo Switch consoles were easier to find last month, and this led to hybrid handheld/home console outselling its competition. The NPD Group’s monthly report...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is gobbling up Overwatch’s audience
The shooter audience on PC looks like it is in the middle of a migration from last year’s big hit to this year’s breakout...
Crackdown 3 delay means Microsoft has just one big new game this holiday
The next Crackdown will not hit PC and Xbox One until 2018. Microsoft has delayed its open-world action shooter to next year to ensure...
PewDiePie happily made Nazi jokes until he saw real Nazis
YouTube’s biggest gaming personality is done making Nazi jokes. Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg came under fire, and even lost his original YouTube Red show, in...
Elgato Gaming adds Xsplit support to its Stream Deck command center
Elgato Gaming has updated one of the most interesting and useful new tools in the world of livestreaming. Its Stream Deck USB command center,...
Will games ever take on white supremacy? GamesBeat Decides
Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan are in the news in the United States for holding rallies and murdering a counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia....
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds updates are going to slow down
Bluehole Studio has updated its last-person-standing shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 14 times since launching it in late March, but the developer is now planning to...
King of the Kill keeps the H1Z1 in its divorce with Just Survive
H1Z1 started as an online multiplayer zombie-survival shooter, but it will end its life as a Battle Royale-like. Publisher Daybreak Game Company is officially dropping...