News
GameStop continues to post losses
Retailer blames "a transitional quarter," says it has spent past year "making up for years of under-investment and modernizing the business"
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Steam fully launches Store Hubs feature
Test version of the hub launched last year, allows users to browse tags, genres, themes and more
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Switch games are 2022's highest-grossing entertainment product in the UK at £88.7m
PlayStation boxed titles are third biggest money maker at £79.6 million, just shy of vinyl sales
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GameStop chairman's co-defendant in insider trading suit found dead
Bed Bath & Beyond CFO Gustavo Arnal dies weeks after he and Ryan Cohen were accused of pump-and-dump scheme on homeware retailer's stock
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Domina removed from Steam after studio's anti-trans post
Developer see relationship with platform ended after using patch notes to spout transphobic rhetoric
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Two Point Campus reaches 1m players in two weeks
Milestone was reached "even faster" than predecessor Two Point Hospital, Sega Europe and Two Point Studios say
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Saints Row reboot debuts at No.1 | UK Boxed Charts
Volition's returning franchise dethrones Horizon: Forbidden West, which topped the charts for three weeks
Opinion
The PS5’s price hike is a sign of things to come | Opinion
Inflationary pressure across the supply chain, and low real-terms prices for games, are an unsustainable combination – price rises are in store for both hardware and software
News
GameStop to increase the wages of store employees
The company will also give store managers a new performance compensation model and stock options
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Sony raising PS5 price in Europe, UK, Japan and more due to economic pressures and inflation
No price increase for the US, RRP for disc-based model now at €549.99 / £479.99
News
"For a mainstream product like The Lord of the Rings, you want to do retail"
Daedalic's head of publishing talks retail strategy for Gollum, saying being on shelves remains crucial for big mainstream IPs
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Microsoft reportedly paid $600k to put Cooking Simulator on Game Pass
The figure corresponds to 22% of Big Cheese Studio's total net profits for last year
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Legal claim filed against Sony over 30% store cut
Suit accuses PlayStation maker of "abuse of market power" and overcharging consumers
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Cult of the Lamb sells 1m copies in first week
Roguelike from Massive Monster and Devolver launched August 11
Data
Monster Hunter Rise takes No.1 with 217,000 copies sold | Japan Monthly Charts
Second-biggest sales month for Switch and PS5 units, Gran Turismo 7 pushes Sony into top 10
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PUBG gets 80,000 new players daily since going free-to-play
The figure was shared in Krafton's latest financial report, with net profit at the developer for Q2 growing 37% year-on-year
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Horizon: Forbidden West takes No.1 back | UK Boxed Charts
Hardware bundles also benefited Gran Turismo 7 this week, while price cuts boosted the PS5 versions of Battlefield 2042 and Demon's Souls
Data
Elden Ring, Pokémon Legends: Arceus drove European sales during the first half of 2022
Germany is the biggest games market in Europe this year
News
Amazon Prime Day boosts Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga back at the top | UK Boxed Charts
The retail giant's deals pushed a number of AAA titles up the charts this week
News
Games spending down 10% to $26.3bn in H1 2022 | US monthly charts
Sales were down 11% to $4.3 billion in June
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Resident Evil 2 remake sells 10m
Capcom's survival horror title initially launched in 2019, and most recently on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Feature
F1 22 and Mario Strikers deliver big sales numbers across Europe | European Monthly Report
Nintendo Switch sales surge in June
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Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course reaches 1m units sold
The first DLC for Studio MDHR's hit came out on June 30
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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak ships 3m copies
Capcom's latest expansion released on June 14 on PC and Switch