Sensor Tower: Super Mario Run made $5 million in under 24 hours
While you collect coins as Mario on your iPhone, Nintendo is collecting fat stacks on cash. Super Mario Run has generated approximately $5 million...
Despite slow 2016, VR is still forecast to hit $14 billion in consumer software sales in 2020
Market researcher SuperData scaled back its virtual reality forecast for 2016, particularly after a disappointing launch of the PlayStation VR headsets. But it still...
Gaming’s $4.4 billion video-content business is why Warner Bros. wants Machinima
Traditional media companies see a huge amount of potential in gaming-related content, and that has translated into another acquisition. Warner Bros., a hollywood and...
PayPal data: 78% of U.S. gamers play on smartphones; PS4 edges out PC gaming
About 78 percent of U.S. gamers play on their smartphones, according to a survey by PayPal and SuperData Research. And about 49 percent of...
No Man’s Sky helps digital gaming generate $6.1 billion in August
Consumers continue to spend more money on digital game downloads and microtransactions. Digital game sales reached $6.1 billion in August, according to intelligence firm...
PlayStation VR co-creator says the ‘year of VR’ still holds surprises for us
Richard Marks has been working on PlayStation VR since 2010, but the senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment says that he can still...
SuperData: Esports is now a $892 million market, but growth is slowing
The esports business is closing in on $1 billion dollars, even if growth isn’t expanding quite as fast as it once did. Research firm SuperData released a new...
Pokémon Go’s revenues are ‘unprecedented’ and show Nintendo’s brand power
As people around the United States gather at parks and other public spaces to capture and train their augmented-reality creatures in Pokémon Go, the...
Uncharted 4 made $56M in digital revenues from downloads and microtransactions in May
The millions of PlayStation 4 owners worldwide turned one of Sony’s biggest franchises into a huge digital success last month. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s...
Overwatch is a digital-sales behemoth with $269M in May, according to analyst
Blizzard’s ultimate attack causes a storm that sucks dollars out of your bank account. Overwatch was the No. 1 premium-priced PC game for digital...