Video games can help improve young people’s literacy, research suggests
Study also finds games helped children’s mental wellbeing during lockdown
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Animal Crossing ‘had the most monthly digital console game sales in history’
SuperData suggests New Horizons sold five million digital copies in March
Half of the past decade’s top 20 US games were Call of Duty
Activision and Rockstar games dominate the best-seller rankings
Call of Duty Mobile’s launch quarter ‘the best since Pokémon Go’s’
Activision’s shooter reportedly downloaded 180 million times from Sep-Dec 2019
Fortnite led digital game sales in 2019
Free-to-play and mobile games were the top digital earners last year
PS5 and Xbox Series X ‘unlikely to cannibalise Switch sales’
NPD survey suggests Nintendo console is considered “supplemental” to rival hardware
Modern Warfare is already 2019’s best-selling game in the US
While The Outer Worlds debuts at No.2 on October's software sales chart
Call of Duty Mobile tops Mario Kart Tour’s launch month
Activision’s shooter said to have hit 148 million downloads
Fortnite revenue ‘at 2-year low’ before Chapter 2 release
While Epic says Fortnite season X's black hole event broke social viewing records
Study finds insufficient evidence of gaming as a clinical disorder
Research suggests obsessive gamers likely to be suffering from wider issues