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MMO Business Roundup: Warcraft modding, Valve source code leaks, and Nvidia goes good
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Warcraft modding: Polygon has an interesting explainer up on Blizzard's recent changes to its...
SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19
Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...
SuperData February 2020: Fortnite returns to the top 10 as analysts predict COVID-19 impacts
SuperData is back with another monthly report on the state of the games industry's revenue, unbowed and unbent from its tussle with Epic Games...
SuperData and Fortnite studio Epic Games tussle over reported revenue numbers
We've been covering SuperData's monthly reports on the state of the industry for a long time - since before we were MassivelyOP, for that...
Visions of N’Zoth boosted World of Warcraft subs, but it’s lost tons since WoW Classic’s 2019 peak
SuperData's January 2020 games industry revenue rankings are up, with only mild shakeups since December 2019. On the PC side, Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2019: Revenues are down YoY for the fourth straight quarter
So here we are in 2020, looking back at the last quarter of 2019 for Blizzard. Nothing big happened or anything, just a massive...
MMO Business Roundup: Stadia, Coronavirus, E3, VR, EVE Fanfest, Discord, and WOTC’s BioWare devs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Stadia: Google has responded to the uproar over its poor communication with the Stadia...
World of Warcraft took a tumble in SuperData’s December 2019 revenue rankings
SuperData's December 2019 report on the global games industry's monthly revenue is up, and it's a head-scratcher indeed.
On the PC side, there hasn't been...
Pokemon Go crushed it in 2019, trouncing its 2016 revenues
You folks remember 2016 when Pokemon Go absolutely blew up, right? Made a ton of money, spawned lawsuits and deaths left and right, started...
SuperData says the premium games market took a ‘gap year’ in 2019
If you tire of all the end-of-the-year content and roundups on our site and many others, then you're not going to like SuperData's either,...
WoW Factor: A quick glance back at 2019 for World of Warcraft
So how did this year go for Blizzard Entertainment? Well... badly. You cannot have missed all of that. But it also went badly in...
SuperData November 2019: Spending rises thanks to mobile, WoW holds steady
Whether any of us likes it or not, mobile gaming continues to prove to be a lucrative thing, as the November report from SuperData...
SuperData says people really splashed out on gaming over Black Friday weekend
If you've been watching the downward trend of consumer spending on the games industry with growing fear over the last few months, take heart:...
SuperData October 2019: League of Legends is back on top as console and PC trend downward
SuperData's October 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is up today, and if you were hoping the PC and console industry...
Superdata says in-game spending is down thanks to gamers’ leeriness of monetization schemes
This news will very likely elicit replies of "well, duh" from many, but now there are numbers from Superdata to back it up: Overall...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2019: Revenues sink for the third quarter in a row
Activision-Blizzard has not had the best year. In February, the company saw record-high revenues and promptly laid off 800 employees, leading to widespread condemnation....
SuperData September 2019: WoW Classic’s surge is over, Fortnite sees worst month since 2017
SuperData's September 2019 global revenue report on the video game industry is out today, and unlike reports a lot of months, this one's got...
SuperData August 2019: WoW Classic drives a massive subscription surge
Alright, all you armchair business analysts, it's time to look over SuperData's sales research report for August 2019. Get your best arguments ready and...
SuperData July 2019: Fortnite, League of Legends tumble as GTAO surges
League of Legends has been dethroned again, according to SuperData's latest game industry global revenue report for the month of July 2019. Riot's MOBA...
SuperData June 2019: WoW’s back in the top 10 as Overwatch players have spent $1B on in-game content
There's good news for MMOs in the June SuperData video games global revenue charts, most notably the fact that a "real" MMORPG has finally...
