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Resident Evil Requiem has sold 7 million copies in 2 months—a milestone that took the RE4 remake a year

Capcom celebrated the milestone with two delightful cakes.

PC Gamer

Analysts say Xbox Game Pass price cut is 'not surprising at all' since Call of Duty's addition to the service 'did not lead to a significant increase in Xbox console sales or even subscriptions'

Industry analysts appear to agree that Microsoft's decision to slash the price of Xbox Game Pass and remove Call of Duty games as day-one launch titles was the right move.

TechRadar

Xbox's Starfield just topped US game sales for the first time since launch after its PS5 release — is Bethesda's RPG selling well on PlayStation after all?

Starfield was the best-selling game in the US during the same week that the Xbox RPG came to PS5 and got some sizable content updates from Bethesda.

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Starfield "was the best-selling video game of the week" in US for first time in nearly 3 years, reports analyst, despite Bethesda's rough PS5 port of the RPG

Some good news for a change

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Crimson Desert players average over 20 hours a week in the open-world game, blowing away almost everything else on consoles

Players are pouring in the hours, at least in the US

GamesRadar

PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"

The PS5 Pro is about to cost $900, after all

GamesRadar

Epic Games lays off "over 1,000" people, CEO Tim Sweeney says "I'm sorry we're here again" and blames "the downturn in Fortnite engagement"

"Being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves"

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"I could see $1,000": Steam Machine is "a PC with console benefits" and console hardware struggles, analyst says, and "whatever the next Xbox thing is, it's going to be just like it in a lot of ways"

Valve's living room box faces major production challenges this year

GamesRadar

Peak's "8 bucks is still 5 bucks" view is a genuine look "behind the curtain" at "vibes pricing" across the industry, analyst says: "70 bucks seems right. All right, we'll try that"

"Is this a $60 game?"

GamesRadar

PC gamers and Steam customers are "a really bright spot" as the games industry struggles with pricing and sustainability, analyst says: "We can look at an audience that's excited to try new things"

PC gaming "has a lot of positives" that are extra positive right now

GamesRadar

Nintendo Switch 2 is still the fastest-selling console in tracked US history – though its bonkers sales numbers haven't beaten the handheld Game Boy Advance

The power of GBA

GamesRadar

"Hardware prices will not fall": Industry analysts are "extremely concerned about" console prices, wouldn't be shocked if the Nintendo Switch 2 costs more in 2026

Happy new year

GamesRadar

New data shows that only 1.6 million units of video game hardware were sold in the US in November, making it the worst month since 1995

Video game hardware and physical software sales just had their worst November in the United States since 1995, despite the holiday season.

TechRadar

Physical Video Game Copies Face Extinction Risk as Sales Hit Worst Month in Decades

Sales of physical video games have plunged after the market recorded its worst month in decades, raising fears that boxed copies could soon disappear.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 topped the US sales charts in November 2025 — but it's down compared to Black Ops 6

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the best-selling game of November 2025 in the U.S, per Circana, but is down compared to 2024's Black Ops 6.

GamesRadar

Game hardware is now $200 more expensive on average than it was in 2019, according to industry analyst: "It could potentially be catastrophic"

That's not good, is it?

GamesRadar

A machine you've almost certainly never heard of just spent a week beating the PS5 as the second best-selling games console in the US behind the Switch 2

The Nex Playground reigns (almost) supreme

PC Gamer

Call of Duty has been the biggest-selling shooter in the US since 2006, but that could soon change according to industry analyst: 'This part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years'

Activision's shooter was last beaten at its own game in the US by the original Gears of War.

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In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it

Fess up: Which one of you was it?

GamesRadar

AAA games like the $70 Ghost of Yotei are really just for "more affluent people," says analyst, as soaring prices push players toward free games and Fortnite: "People just don't realize, because they're not paying attention"

Well...start paying attention, folks

GamesRadar

"In other words, 72% don't know what a monopoly is," analyst says of study that finds 72% of game devs "see Steam as a monopoly"

"Market share isn't what defines a monopoly, folks"

TechRadar

Pokémon Legends: Z-A physical launch sales in the US were the biggest for a new title since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released in 2023

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is the biggest physical game launch in the US since the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in 2023.

GamesRadar

As the PS2 turns 25, its top 20 best-selling US games are revealed: GTA is still on top, and Kingdom Hearts beats Final Fantasy 10

Here we go again...

GamesRadar

The most mid Square Enix game in existence, Balan Wonderworld, shocks the nation and sells a single copy in the US this September: "Somebody made the conscious decision to pick up that game"

Balan Wonderworld lives

TechRadar

PS5 sales are looking good despite recent price hikes, officially overtaking the PS3 in lifetime sales in the US

The PlayStation 5 has officially outsold the PlayStation 3 in lifetime sales as of September 2025.

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