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Nintendo EAD is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with twelve titles on the list, followed by Game Freak with six Pokémon games. The oldest game in the top 50 is Pac-Man, released in May 1980, while the most recent is Hogwarts Legacy, released in February 2023.
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The following are lists of the best-selling video games of 2021, including a list of the highest-grossing games by revenue (covering both free-to-play and pay-to-play games) and a list of the best-selling games by software units sold (covering only pay-to-play games).
Note: Mobile downloads are excluded.
United States
1.Call of Duty: Vanguard 2.Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War 3.Madden NFL 22 4.Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl* 5.Battlefield 2042 6.Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales 7.Mario Kart 8 Deluxe* 8.Resident Evil: Village 9.MLB: The Show 21** 10.Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury*
United Kingdom
These are the top selling games in the UK according to the GSD. It includes digital for select publishers 1.FIFA 22 2.Call of Duty: Vanguard 3.Grand Theft Auto 5 4.FIFA 21 5.Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 6.Red Dead Redemption 2 7.Spider-Man: Miles Morales 8.F1 2021 9.Far Cry 6 10.Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Europe
These are the top selling games across Europe according to the GSD. It includes digital for select publishers If they combine both Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, the combine title would have been No. 5 1.FIFA 22 2.Grand Theft Auto 5 3.FIFA 21 4.Call of Duty: Vanguard 5.Mario Kart 8: Deluxe* 6.Red Dead Redemption 2 7.Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury* 8.Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 9.Assassin's Creed Valhalla 10.Spider-Man: Miles Morales
1.Dungeon Fighter Online (DFO) - $18 billion up until 2021
•Up until 2016 – $8.7 billion
•2017–2018 – $3.6 billion
•2019 – $1.6 billion
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5."Nexon courts Western game developers with creativity pitch". VentureBeat. March 6, 2017. https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/06/nexon-courts-western-game-developers-with-creativity-pitch/.
6.Special Report: Evolution of Mobile Esports for the Mass Market. Niko Partners. August 2019. pp. 18–9. https://nikopartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Evolution-of-Mobile-Esports-for-the-Mass-Market.pdf.
The following titles were 2021's top ten best-selling premium games by region (excluding microtransactions and free-to-play titles) on PC and console platforms, for Japan, the United States, and Europe.
- Roblox (Total registered players: 230 million) Released in 2006, Roblox is an online game creation platform that gives users the ability to create games and play games made by other users.
- Fortnite (Total registered players: 350 million) Originally, Fortnite was only intended to be a co-op survival tower defense game where you fight off hordes of zombies and creatures using weapons, traps and fortifications; this game mode would later be called Save the World.
- Minecraft (Total registered players: 240 million) Minecraft is a sandbox exploration game set in an almost infinite, blocky 3D world. Extract raw resources to craft tools and items in order to build various structures and machinery.
- League of Legends (Total registered players: 180 million) Released in 2009, League of Legends is an online battle arena game inspired by the DotA mod of Warcraft lll.
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- Inscryption+ Inscryption is a game about games, centered around a narrative with as many layers as a Russian nesting doll. It begins as a standard roguelike deck-building game, and this first act is meaty enough that I was hooked by the time developer Daniel Mullins pulled the rug out from beneath my feet.
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale+ For a game about a cute little dog with a paintbrush, Chicory: A Colorful Tale hits hard. The anthropomorphic canine you inhabit begins the game as the janitor for a famous artist, a bunny named Chicory.
- Halo Infinite+ The Halo franchise has been a powerhouse of the gaming industry for two decades now. Its entries have won countless awards and accolades, and have been named Game of the Year and even Game of the Decade.
- Metroid Dread+ The Metroid series has housed some of the most influential video games in history. But it hasn’t seen the same release cadence as Nintendo’s other major franchises, like Mario and the Legend of Zelda.
GamesRadar+ – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021; GamesTM – 2010, 2015, 2018; Gameswelt – 2012, 2016; GamingBolt – 2013, 2022, 2023, 2024; GQ – 2013, 2023; The Greatest Games – 1985; Hardcore Gaming 101 – 2015, 2020; Hyper – 1995, 1997, 1999
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