Mortal Kombat takes the second spot.

New figures from Circana (formerly NPD) put Starfield as the top selling title for September 2023. Todd Howard's latest masterpiece, Starfield, beat out Mortal Kombat 1 and EA Sports FC 24 for the best selling title over the entire month. These sales figures are only for the United States. Globally, the picture might be quite different, but we just don't have the data to know for sure.

What makes Starfield's position at the top a...

And that's the truth.

The Souls-like set in the world of Pinocchio, Lies of P, just hit a rather remarkable sales milestone. Developer and publisher Neowiz says that Lies of P has officially sold 1 million units globally less than a month after the game's release. This is a huge milestone for a Souls-like that wasn't made by a studio named "FromSoftware" after all.

Lies of P came out for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. At release,...

6 million players and counting.

Bethesda Game Studios announced mere minutes ago that Starfield is the largest ever release for Bethesda. It's not clear if this is the largest release for Bethesda Softworks (the publisher), Bethesda Game Studios (the developer) or just "Bethesda" in general. Let's just go with "Bethesda" in the general sense here because no other clarification was offered.

Whatever the case may be, Starfield seems to be a pretty big...

Oh come on.

Blizzard just revealed that Diablo 4 had the best selling launch in the history of the studio. We already knew that Diablo 4 had the biggest launch day sales for Blizzard, but that momentum just kept on going.

Blizzard now says that in the first five days following the game's June 6th launch, Diablo 4 has surpassed $666 million (USD) in global sales. The actual figure was not provided. It could be that Diablo 4 sold $3 billion worth of Diablo 4 but that "666"...

Exact figures were not given.

Diablo 4 has officially become the fastest selling game of all time, at least for Blizzard. The studio announced that the latest ARPG sold a lot of copies across PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

Exact numbers were not shared by Blizzard, only that it sold fast. Fast like Sonic, an IP that Blizzard doesn't own but is relevant to this news. The sales were probably helped tremendously by the fact that this release...

The Tears sure aren't flowing at Nintendo.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has quickly become the fastest selling Zelda title in the Americas. In just three days since its release on the Nintendo Switch, Tears of the Kingdom sold 4 million copies in the Americas and a staggering 10 million copies globally.

To compare to other big Nintendo Switch releases, Breath of the Wild has sold 30 million copies in six years. The best selling Switch title is Mario Kart ...

The impressive sales numbers are before the old-gen versions were released.

Warner Bros. Games must be pretty happy with how Hogwarts Legacy has sold. As of May 5, Hogwarts Legacy has sold more than 15 million copies and brought in more than $1 billion (USD) in global sales.

These massive sales milestones were achieved just from the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC releases of the game, which happened back on February 10, 2023. Those on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox...

Over 1 billion zombies have been made extra dead thus far.

Dead Island 2 seems like it's off to a strong start for Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios. The companies announced today that Dead Island 2 has already sold over 1 million copies just in its first three days of being available.

Naturally, some context is needed here. Dead Island 2 shipped across five platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the Epic Games Store. A million copies...

Square Enix says that sales of the new IP have been lackluster.

Square Enix flatly admitted that many of the studio's recent game releases underperformed in sales. Square Enix's Outline of Results Briefing held on February 3, 2023 shared some preliminary financial results for Q1-Q3 of the current fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2023. The main focus was on the most recent quarter which ran from October 2022 through December 2022. This briefing was held just one week after the...

Big numbers all over the place making lots of executives very happy.

It was a monumental week for those of you who like hearing about the success of various video game releases. If you like seeing big numbers, this week was probably like a little Christmas for you as we saw sales milestones for games like Sons of the Forest, Hogwarts Legacy, and Elden Ring.

Let's start with the newest kid on the block, Sons of the Forest. Though it was released only into Steam Early Access...

It's time to talk about the elephant in the room.

As you are probably aware by now, Hogwarts Legacy was released into "early access" on Tuesday, February 7 for those that had pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition of the game. Priced at $70 (USD; $80 for consoles), this Deluxe Edition of Hogwarts Legacy gave players a three-day jump on their adventures and also offers some various in-game items. The standard edition of the game on PC is $60 ($70 on consoles).

As the...

PlayStation 5 had its best quarter ever.

Sony revealed that the PlayStation 5 sold like hotcakes in their Q3 2022 financial results (PDF). Their latest console saw a massive increase in both hardware sales and sales of first-party software, giving the PlayStation 5 its best sales quarter since its launch.

For the three-month period ending December 21, 2022, Over 7.1 million PlayStation 5 consoles were shipped out. For the entirety of the 2022 financial year, Sony sold...

And the hits just keep on coming.

Over the weekend, information was shared suggesting that The Callisto Protocol failed to meet sales expectations by a considerable margin. Today we have further information, this time from the NPD Group, that sheds some additional light on just how poorly this new sci-fi horror/shooter performed.

The NPD Group shared their sales information for December 2022 along with their full year 2022 details. The full year isn't all that exciting,...

The game is also reportedly having trouble recuperating development costs.

Now this story may need to be taken with a little bit of salt. There is a new report out of a Korean media outlet that offers up a little insight as to how poorly The Callisto Protocol has performed. The information shared here has only been seen in this one report and, even without any sort of translation issues, may still be inaccurate. The information coming out of Korea was also shared by MP1ST.
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Those in the UK vastly prefer digital to physical.

According to a new report by the BBC, physical game sales seem to be on the verge of being completely wiped out. Last year, the digital entertainment and retail association (ERA) says that 89.5% of all games sold in the UK were digital purchases. That leaves the remaining 10.5% as physical disc-based sales. In addition, about 30% of all total sales were for mobile apps.

The BBC continues on to say that the gaming industry...