An anonymous reader shares a report: The pandemic is helping Japan’s demon slayers, monsters and robots make the leap to the global market. Animated video in the Japanese style — aka anime — has long been a niche taste for fans in the U.S. and elsewhere, and some anime films such as those by Hayao Miyazaki have become mainstream hits. Now,…
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Video Games Set a Record for Quarterly Sales
Americans stuck at home have flocked in droves to video gaming, sending sales to a quarterly record. From a report: U.S. consumer spending on video games jumped to $10.9 billion in the first quarter, up 9% from a year earlier, research firm NPD Group said in a report released Friday. Game content reaped the lion’s share of the spending, $9.6 billion,…