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,…

Sony Announces Plan To Publish PlayStation Games On Non-PS Consoles

Sony has announced plans to launch PlayStation games on “additional console platforms beyond PlayStation platforms as early as 2021.” The first announced series for the change is Sony’s long-running baseball sim series MLB The Show. Ars Technica reports: The gazillion-dollar question, of course, is which other console platforms we might expect the series to launch on. Neither Sony nor MLB had…