The UK physical games market fell 15.8 percent to £1.78bn in 2016, according to the latest figures from GfK. Sales of PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, 3DS and older systems suffered a considerable drop, falling by 27 percent. Home consoles generated £503m of revenue in 2016 compared to £689.5m in 2015. The only exception was […]
Android’s footprint in the UK grew over four times larger in the spring, analysts at GfK found today. Google’s smartphone platform surged from just three percent in the UK during the winter to 13.2 percent by the end of June. The company didn’t publicly release other OS data but suggested that it meant shoppers were […]
THQ today announced that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II marked its first week debut as the best selling PC game across major video game markets worldwide, including the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Australia (according to the NPD Group, Inc., ELSPA/GfK Chart-Track and GfK.) “We have built -˜Dawn of War’ into a […]