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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut classification rejected in Australia
The extended edition of ZA/UM's RPG was due to release on PS5 and PS4 in the country on March 30
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Pandemic drives UK games market to record £7bn year
Spending on video games products and culture rose 30%, topping 2018 record by more than £1 billion
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales scores its first No.1 as PS5 stock levels improve | UK Boxed Charts
There is a PS5 game at the top of the UK boxed charts
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PS5 and Switch sales spike in February | UK Monthly Boxed Charts
New PlayStation stock and Super Mario drives the physical games market last month
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US game spending jumped 35% in February, says NPD Group
Games brought in $4.6 billion as Super Mario 3D World and Switch led full game and hardware charts
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GameStop's meme stock rallies don't fix its decline | Opinion
GameStop's stock market drama masks the fact that the realities of being a physical retailer in a digital market haven't changed
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PC and console games sales surged across Europe in February | EMEAA Charts
Nearly 15 million games and 500,000 consoles sold in a month
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GameStop establishes committee to help transform it "into a technology business"
Retailer's board of directors says new group will "further accelerate the company's transformation"
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GAME parent Frasers Group criticises “worthless” government relief package
Mike Ashley-owned organisation will review portfolio for “unviable” stores
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Mario games shine and Yakuza re-enters Top 40 | UK boxed charts
Super Mario 3D All-Stars holds No.1 for a fourth straight week
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SELL: French industry's record year not just about COVID
SELL president Julie Chalmette looks back at a year of impressive growth for the French games market
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French games market reaches record high of €5.3bn | France Annual Report
27.5 million games across physical and digital were sold in France in 2020, alongside 2.3 million consoles
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January digital games spending reaches $11.6bn
Superdata reports a 15% rise in revenue year-on-year worldwide, with the PC space particularly growing
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GameStop CFO resigns
Jim Bell will leave the retailer by end of March, search has begun for a replacement
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PC gaming hardware and accessories spending grew 62% in the US in 2020
PC gaming accessories in particular rose 81% in 2020
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Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury launch 190% bigger than Wii U original | UK Boxed Charts
It's the third biggest Mario platform launch on Switch
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US game spending up 42% in January, says NPD
Americans put a record $4.71 billion toward gaming to start the year as Call of Duty continues to top charts, Cyberpunk 2077 sales slide in second month
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Human: Fall Flat reaches 25 million units sold
That's across all platforms, with No Brakes Games' title having sold 2.5 million units on mobile in China in just one month
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Iron Gate Studio's Valheim sells one million units
The survival Viking game reached 160,000 peak concurrent users and over 127,000 peak Twitch viewers in one week
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PS5 to launch in China in Q2 2021
Sony's console is currently going through the "final preparations" before launch in mainland China
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Xbox Series S/X was the No.1 console of January | UK Monthly GfK Charts
More than half of all boxed games sold were for Nintendo Switch
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Digital downloads jumped 47% across Europe in 2020 | European Annual Report
AAA publishers report that nearly 60% of their game sales in 2020 were digital
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Ubisoft's Prince of Persia remake postponed indefinitely
The Sands of Time was due in March and will now launch at a "later date," the company said
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Animal Crossing continues to dominate UK retail | UK Boxed Charts
And Mario Kart 8: Deluxe is No.2. Again.