The fifth part of the Far Cry action movie from Ubisoft set a record for sales in the first week after release. The publisher reported that Far Cry 5 was more than one and a half times ahead of the previous part of the series in terms of the number of copies sold in the starting 7 days. During this time, the game earned $ 310 million.

The creator of the adventure game Where The Water Tastes Like Wine (WTWTLW), Johnnemann Nordhagen, admitted that he earned $ 0 on the game. Nordhagen invested more than $140 thousand of personal funds in his work and spent 4 years on it.

The fifth part of the famous Far Cry shooter series was released on March 27 and is in great demand. In a week since the release of Far Cry 5, more than 500 thousand Steam users have appeared.

Nintendo has announced the Top 10 titles from independent developers that are best sold for the Switch console in the eShop branded web store. Celeste platformer by Matt Thorson and Noel Berry became the sales leader.

The cooperative shooter Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has successfully started. Over half a million game copies were sold in the first 4 days after the release. The first part of the game reached this figure in 6 months of sales.

Capcom publishing house called the sales of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action the best in its history. Since the game’s release on January 26, Capcom has shipped 7.5 million copies of the game to stores and provided digital downloads on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

2018 has started well for the gaming business in the United States of America. In January, sales of the video game market increased by 59% and reached $ 1.1 billion. These are the best figures since January 2011, according to the analytical company NPD.

Rockstar Studio’s hit has been on the market for almost 5 years and is still selling great. Total sales of GTA V action exceeded 90 million copies, and in 2017 15 million copies of the game were sold.

On January 25, independent developer Matt Thorson released a new Celeste platformer project. In 2 weeks, the Nintendo Switch version of the game has overtaken its PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions in sales.

In the first week after the release of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action, 1.2 million physical copies of the game were bought in Japan. This is 92% of the initial batch of discs sent by the publisher Capcom to stores.

Sony Corporation has reported on the results of the work of the gaming division of Sony’s Game&Network Services for the 3rd fiscal quarter of 2017. Over the past three months, the company has delivered fewer consoles, but compensated for this with a significant increase in game sales.

Microsoft reported an 8% increase in gaming business revenue for the last quarter of 2017. From October to December, the company earned $3.92 billion. The driver of the increase in revenue was the new Xbox One X console.

Deliveries of the Monster Hunter: World role-playing action have become the best in the history of the franchise. In the first three days, Capcom sent over 5 million copies to stores and sold them in numbers.

PUBG Corp. And Xbox reported selling 3 million copies of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLE Royale for Xbox One in the first month after release, with 1 million copies sold out in the first 48 hours.

The revenues of the last part of the Call of Duty franchise exceeded a seven-figure sum. Call of Duty: WWII earned $ 1 billion in less than 2 months, according to the publisher of the game Activision.

41.7 million — such a number of copies of the Uncharted franchise games managed to sell Naughty Dog for 10 years of the series’ existence. Representatives of the studio announced this at the annual PlayStation Experience exhibition last weekend.

Sales of the Divinity: Original Sin 2 role-playing game by Larian studio exceeded 1 million copies 2.5 months after release. The game is only available on the PC platform.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Origins action adventure sold twice as well in the first 10 days after its release as its predecessor, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.