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Two October 2025 games popped off again
It’s a busy time for core gamers. Very bloody busy. With each week comes an onslaught of awesome new games to play. But that’s not stopping devs from updating older games to give players yet another thing to boot up.
Two hits from October...
This year’s top first-party Sony and Xbox games
Correction: Yesterday, we had a typo in the text for the Marathon revenue number. We’ve updated it to the correct figure ($61.0M, which was originally in the image).
It’s an Xbox and PlayStation first-party special, with lots of estim...
Gears of War: E-Day sells 230K copies
Gears of War: E-Day has sold 230K copies since its advance-access launch on October 1 and full release on October 6. Steam accounts for 168K of those, with Xbox (console and PC) selling 62K. But there’s more to this story, as Xbox makes up...
FC 27 is now 2026's top seller
FC 27 launched on September 25 (September 18 for us who forked out for one of the premium editions). It’s EA’s first FC release since the Saudi Arabia buyout, and it’s doing very well.
$714M+ via copies sold alone. Bloody ‘ell!
Via copies...
Steam's top September 2026 games
Steam generated $1.7 billion in September 2026, the platform’s best September to date, up 13% on the previous record, September of last year.
Steam also had its best-ever Q3, generating $5.5B (up 12% on last year). That brings the 2026 tot...
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I'm Alinea Analytics' Head of Market Analysis. I’ve been analysing and writing about games professionally for a decade now. I LOVE dissecting the latest gaming trends and analysing what they mean for the market. I also play WAY too many roguelikes
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