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Is the candy crushed? Titanfall, Hearthstone, and other hardcore fare drove digital gaming in March

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hardcore games like the downloadable first-person shooter sci-fi game Titanfall helped drive U.S. digital game sales in March up 9 percent to $936 million compared to a year ago.

Market researcher SuperData Research reported today that digital gaming grew across the board in March thanks to hits across multiple platforms. Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card battler debuted on the iPad. The growth in the hardcore audiences on mobile, social, and online is a welcome development as casual leaders such as Zynga and King see slower growth.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.