SuperData: October digital game revenue up 15 percent year-over-year to $8.5 billion

Loot box fiascos and downvotes aside, multiplayer games are selling well. Digital video game spending was 15 percent up year-over-year in October, according to industry analyst SuperData Research. Sales on PC, consoles, and mobile totaled $8.5 billion, as compared to $7.4 billion in October 2016. This is thanks to the success of multiplayer games like the popular battle royal shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which sold five million copies last month. Bungie’s Destiny 2 PC launch on October 24 also bumped up digital sales on PC by 28 percent.

All the top-grossing games last month were multiplayer — Riot’s League of Legends nabbed the top spot for PC and Electronic Arts’ FIFA 18 was No. 1 on consoles. Mobile sales were up 19 percent year-over-year last month, and at the top was Tencent’s multiplayer online battle arena Honour of Kings.