SuperData stated the market was dominated by mobile games which made up $64.4 billion, with personal computer games at $29.6 billion and console games at $15.4 billion. SuperData Research estimated that the video game industry grew 4% in 2019, reaching $120.1 billion in global revenues. Nier: Automata – Game of the Yorha Edition Releases scoring higher than 90/100 in 2019 Titleĭivinity: Original Sin II – Definitive Editionĭragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition It generally considers expansions and re-releases as separate entities. Metacritic is an aggregator of video game journalism reviews.

^ a b c Some award presentations combine these categories.Martti Suosalo as Ahti the Janitor in Control Gonzalo Martin as Sean Diaz in Life Is Strange 2 Top-rated games Major awards Category/Organization Blizzard Entertainment faced criticism due to their involvement in the Blitzchung controversy, which began after they had banned a Hearthstone player for making comments during a tournament regarding the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. Dota Auto Chess, a community-created mod for Dota 2, introduced a new subgenre of strategy games called auto battlers, which saw several games in the genre released throughout the year. The Epic Games Store continued its growth in challenging the largest digital PC game distribution service Steam, leading to concern and debate about Epic Games' methods to seek games for its service. The first video cards to support real-time ray tracing were put onto the consumer market, including the first set of games that would take advantage of the new technology. The controversy over loot boxes as a potential gambling route continued into 2019, with some governments like Belgium and the Netherlands banning games with them under their gambling laws, while the United Kingdom acknowledging their current laws prevent enforcing these as if they were games of chance. In the video game industry during 2019, both Sony and Microsoft announced their intent to reveal their next-generation consoles in 2020, while Nintendo introduced a smaller Nintendo Switch Lite, and Google announced its streaming game platform Stadia.

Overview of the events of 2019 in video games

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