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GTA 6 Release Day Set To Cost America $1 Billion With 1.5 Million Workers Plotting a Mass Sick Day

An economist estimates 1.5 million Americans skipping work for the GTA 6 launch on 19 November could cost the US $1 billion, nearly the same sum publisher Take-Two expects to earn.

International Business Times UK

'Grand Theft Auto 6' Preview Overwhelms Streaming Platforms. Analysts See Blockbuster Demand Ahead.

The highly anticipated extended look at gameplay for "GTA 6" debuted Thursday, August 27, on Netflix.

International Business Times

Analyst reckons the Epic Games Store can't "recover" in duel with Steam, Epic GM says "the data tells a very different story"

"Steam has become so inevitable"

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Can the Epic Games Store turn things around? 'I don't see how they can recover at this point,' says Newzoo analyst

Adding features to the storefront and making its launcher run more smoothly might be too little, too late.

PC Gamer

Will the next Mass Effect actually release under EA's new owners? 'I'll believe it when I see it,' says Newzoo's director of market intelligence and former EA manager

Emmanuel Rosier is here to pour cold water on my hopes and dreams.

PC Gamer

GTA 6 Pre-Order Boom Prompts Take-Two CEO to Confirm No Discounts 'For a Very Long Time' Post-Launch

Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are breaking records, with Take-Two maintaining a premium pricing strategy. CEO Strauss Zelnick confirms no early discounts, mirroring GTA 5's pricing approach.

International Business Times UK

Games industry analyst says Meccha Chameleon's June revenue on PC was second only to Fortnite

It's the perfect business stratagem: first you Meccha game, then you Meccha lot of money.

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GTA 6 Predicted to Hit Massive $5.2B Launch Week as Retailers Boycott Over Missing Disc

New analysis suggests GTA 6 could earn up to $5.2 billion in its launch week, fuelled by unprecedented digital preorders years ahead of release.

International Business Times UK

'The first week of pre-orders brought in $180 million' — Analysts report that GTA 6 has 'the strongest pre-order campaign ever recorded'

Grand Theft Auto 6 reportedly achieved the strongest pre-order period ever and is on track to earn over $5 billion by the end of its launch week.

TechRadar

GTA 6’s unbelievable sales data could signal $5 billion opening week amid ‘strongest pre-order campaign on record’

As if anyone expected otherwise.

Destructoid

GTA 6 is on track for "the strongest pre-order campaign ever recorded" and up to $5 billion in sales by "the end of launch week," analysts say

Still, reports of GTA 6 pre-orders earning Rockstar billions already are "absurd"

GamesRadar

The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025

Market analyst Michiel Buijsman reckons GTA 6 will be 2026's "defining commercial catalyst."

PC Gamer

Amid all the closures and layoffs, the global games market has apparently passed $200 billion in yearly revenue for the first time ever, says analytics firm

A year-on-year jump of 9.1%

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PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market"

Schedule 1, Peak, and REPO lead a big year for small games

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If you're asking why everyone's making an extraction shooter, Escape from Tarkov is the 11th most-played game on PC according to new report, beating Overwatch, Marvel Rivals, and PUBG

Battlestate Games had a good year in 2025

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Arc Raiders and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 help show "mid-price is the new sweet spot" for games, analysts say

The $50 future

GamesRadar

"Games like Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Skyrim" help make PC gaming the only platform where over half of revenue is from "games outside the top 20," report says

Red Dead Redemption 2, REPO, Rust, and others also stand out

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Analysts say PC gaming is now the one platform where more than 50% of revenue comes from games outside the top 20

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Analysts say Slay the Spire 2 is the best-performing deckbuilder of all time—and the competition isn't close

Slay the Spire 2 has been averaging over a million users per day since launch.

PC Gamer

PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts

That's assuming the RAMpocalypse doesn't revise those estimates in the meantime.

PC Gamer

Battlefield 6 was 'the biggest launch in franchise history.' 6 months later, EA is laying off people who made it

"Battlefield remains one of our biggest priorities."

PC Gamer

Arc Raiders had nearly 1 million concurrent players in January, and around 6 million 'weekly active users', claims Nexon—putting the extraction shooter on par with some of the biggest MMOs

World of Arc-craft.

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Global Games Revenue Expected to Jump 7.5% in 2025, Exceeding Earlier Forecasts

Gaming revenues are given a very good projection.

PC Gamer

Analyst firm says the games market is expected to reach a record-breaking $197 billion by the end of 2025, 'driven primarily by stronger-than-expected performance on PC and mobile'

Number go up.

PC Gamer

'The industry isn't dying, it's splitting into two different models': What experts are saying about the EA buyout

What will EA's new owners do with it? Lean on its big live service games to pay off that $20 billion in debt, for one thing.

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