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  1. Oct 31, 2023 · The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom shifting a record-equally ten million games in a weekend. Diablo 4 with its $666 million in five days. Starfield becoming Bethesda's biggest ever launch...

  2. Feb 17, 2024 · Many in the gaming industry expected it to bounce back quickly after 2022’s post-pandemic decline, but last year did not deliver the growth they hoped for. The latest quarterly numbers from...

    • Microsoft Moves to Acquire Activision Blizzard
    • Unionization Takes Center Stage
    • Grand Theft Auto 6 Leaks
    • Cloud Gaming Takes A Left Turn

    Coming out of a tumultuous 2021, all eyes were on Activision Blizzard. The company was the subject of damning reports about its toxic workplace culture and the industry was calling for change. That wasn’t lost on Microsoft, which made a drastic move in January by announcing its intention to acquire the Call of Duty publisherfor $68.7 billion. To pu...

    The effects of the Activision Blizzard scandal weren’t just felt at an executive level; they also led to a major milestone for workers rights. Discussions around workplace culture in games led to serious conversations around unionization, a concept that was previously foreign to the video game industry. Rumblings of a union push began in late Decem...

    At a high level, the video game industry’s biggest companies operate in secrecy. While there’s always an occasional release date leak, it’s very rare that we see much of a game more than a month out from any official press reveal. So it was especially shocking when a hacker got access to a massive folder of Grand Theft Auto 6 videosand casually pos...

    For the last few years, we’ve heard companies claim that cloud gaming is the future. Though the tech has received a fair amount of pushback from traditional players, 2022 proved that executives weren’t just full of hot air — though mixed messaging made it especially hard to get a read on the tech. One of this year’s biggest stories came when Google...

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  3. Dec 22, 2022 · From the player-created stories of Elden Ring to the breakout success of Marvel Snap to the unprecedented leak of GTA6, 2022 was certainly an eventful year for video games.

  4. Feb 1, 2024 · We last broke down that value for our “Level Up” special report in October 2022, and now, one month into 2024, our new 25-page report shows there is still much to behold in gaming — but not...

    • Kaare Eriksen
  5. Apr 17, 2023 · From a layperson's point of view the general opinion is that 2022 has not been a great year for video games. During the first months of the year, it started strong with releases...

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  7. Jul 28, 2022 · The gaming industry is tipped to maintain its recent rapid growth, and could be worth $321 billion by 2026, a new PwC report says. Millions of new players splashed out on games and consoles during COVID-19 lockdowns. Some players said gaming during the pandemic helped with their mental health.

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