Not For Resale is a documentary feature film from director Kevin J. James. The film examines the decline of physical media in the video game industry and the rise of digital distribution. The documentary focuses on local game stores and the final days of physical media and the rise of digital distribution.
Continue reading Official trailer for the video game store documentary ‘Not For Resale’
The industry was kicked off by IBM back in the ’80s creating a compatible market. Continuing past the home computers demise in the ’90s. Once we hit the mid-’90s the advantage turned to consoles as that 3D revolution brought in a brand new dawn.
Continue reading A retro hardware and software analysis of PC gaming back in the ’90s
Pascal Gilcher is currently working on a ray traced Global Illumination method for ReShade. What this ultimately means is that PC gamers will be able to enable this ray tracing Global Illumination technique in all DX9, DX10 and DX11 (something that will obviously give a visual boost to a lot of older games). Continue reading New Reshade mod aims to bring ray tracing Global Illumination to DX9, DX10 and DX11 games
TheGreatSetup has shared with us some really interesting statistics about PC gaming and video-games in general. The team has spent 6 months gathering 500 essential data-points about video game industry for 2018. Continue reading PC gaming industry expected to reach $33.6 billion by 2020, League of Legends the most popular core PC game
SuperData Arcade has shared its monthly report, claiming that the PC gaming market saw a 24% year-over-year growth in January 2018. According to the report, gamers spent $8.9B billion digitally on games across all platforms in January. Continue reading PC gaming market saw a 24% year-over-year growth in January 2018
According to a new report by Jon Peddie Research, over three million add-in boards were sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017 worth $776 million, and most of these GPUs were coming from AMD. Still, it appears that the primary driver for GPU sales, was, is and will remain PC gaming. Continue reading Over three million GPUs were sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017 but PC gaming remains the primary driver for GPU sales
SuperData Research has just released its 2017 Year in review digital games and interactive media report. According to the report, the mobile market has grown to $59.2B, PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds made $712M in eight months, YouTube’s gaming video content revenue plummeted by 50% and one in three people on the planet play free-to-play games. Continue reading PUBG was 2017’s breakout success, one in three people on the planet play free-to-play games
According to SuperData’s worldwide digital video games stats for December 2017, the premium PC segment saw its greatest growth. This jump is really close to the one we witnessed back in October 2017, as the premium PC segment saw a similar growth. Continue reading Report: Premium PC segment saw the greatest growth in December 2017
Now here is something really cool. Ubisoft has released a new video in which it praises PC gaming. In this video, some Ubisoft employees shared their thoughts on the advantage and the future of PC gaming. Continue reading Ubisoft on PC gaming: “PC is the lead platform for innovation”, “more and more people realize how superior PC can be”
Digi-Capital has issued its new Games Q1 2018 report, detailing how the three big sectors of mobile games software, PC games hardware, and PC games (online) could take just under three-quarters of total games market revenue by 2022. According to the report, if mobile games software continues its outperformance of recent years, it could deliver in the $55 billion to $60 billion range this year, and grow to $90 billion to $95 billion by 2022. Continue reading Digi-Capital’s research shows the dominance of mobile and PC online gaming
