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Star Wars games of all time.The top-ten list runs from January 1995 to May 2024, with the Star Wars titles sorted by their lifetime dollar sales, which includes digital downloads.The 2015 revival of Star Wars: Battlefront tops out the list, with EA reporting in 2016 that the title had moved over 16million copies. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order comes in second just ahead of 2017’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2, which was reported to have sold 9million copies in its first month.The list also includes four different Lego Star Wars titles and the original Battlefront 2.

Hogwarts Legacy is set to top the US video game sales charts for 2023, breaking a long stretch of Call Of Duty titles.According to Mat Piscatella, the executive director & video game industry analyst at Circana, who spoke to IGN, this is a combination of both Hogwarts Legacy selling extremely well throughout the year (along with a boost from a recent Nintendo Switch port) and the fact that Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3‘s sales are behind Modern Warfare 2, despite Modern Warfare 3 being the second best-selling game of 2023.If Hogwarts Legacy stays at the top of the charts, then this year will be the first year since 2009 that the charts haven’t been topped by either a Call Of Duty game or a Rockstar Games title (in 2013, Grand Theft Auto V topped the list, and in 2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 topped the list).NME reviewed Hogwarts Legacy, stating that the game can “only offer a facsimile: a world that, although ostensibly populated, feels lifeless and doesn’t let you have any real impact on it.”“Hogwarts Legacy is fun and manages to get a lot of things right, but it already feels somewhat dated, no doubt a hangover from the six-year development cycle,” the review reads.“It’s a stunning way to experience Hogwarts and the surrounding area and is probably the best representation for fans of the universe, regardless of the medium. Honestly, this is an exceptional piece of fan service and a loving recreation that for performance reasons and dated design, doesn’t quite come together,” it concludes.In other gaming news, a new Assassin’s Creed Mirage update has introduced New Game Plus to the game.

Total video game spending in the U.S. across hardware, content and accessories reached $5.6 billion in March, per the NPD Group.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has already become one of the best-selling games of all time in the United States.That is according to NPD Group’s video game industry advisor Mat Piscatella, who shared the news on Twitter. Piscatella shared a brief take on the gaming industry for the month of January, saying: “Big start for video games”.His next tweet then spoke of Black Ops Cold War’s newest accolade: “The stat that made my jaw drop this month was seeing Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War make it into the top 20 best-selling games in U.S.