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If a game was released on multiple platforms, the sales figures list are only for PC sales. This list is not comprehensive because sales figures are not always publicly available. Subscription figures for massively multiplayer online games such as Flight Simulator or Lineage and number of accounts from free-to-play games such as Hearthstone are ...
The best-selling video game to date is Minecraft, a 2011 sandbox game released by Mojang for multiple platforms, eventually selling more than 300 million copies in 2023. Grand Theft Auto V is the only other video game known to have sold over 100 million and 200 million copies.
The United States is a very competitive market for video game developers. Games from different developers around the world have entered the annual lists of top ten best-selling games in the United States. The most successful developers are mostly from Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
Prime Video’s Fallout, based on the Bethesda game series, was the crown jewel of video game adaptations in 2024. Working within the continuity of the games, the show, starring Ella Purnell ...
By 5 May 2024, 12 million units of the game had been sold, making it PlayStation's fastest selling video game of all time as well as Sony's most successful Windows title. [71] Helldivers 2 was the third highest selling video game of 2024 in the United States. [72] [73] It was also a top seller and the most played game on Steam in 2024. [74]
Free-to-play game downloads (including free mobile games) and microtransactions should not figure into sales or shipment figures. For video game franchises that have generated the highest overall media revenue (from games and other media and merchandise), see the list of highest-grossing media franchises .
600 Activision QA workers unionized under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), creating the largest video game union in North America. [30] 14 Embracer Group divested Saber Interactive and a portion of its studios to a private firm for $249 million. [31] [32] 18–22 The 2024 Game Developers Conference was held in San Francisco. [33] 28
The Game Awards 2024 was an award show to honor the best video games of 2024. It was the eleventh show hosted by Geoff Keighley , creator and producer of the Game Awards , and held with a live audience at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 12, 2024, and live streamed across online platforms globally.