Gaming

Fortnite won its chicken dinner in 2019 by grossing $1.8 billion in sales, more than any single-year sales total in videogame history. While the game itself is technically free-to-play, Epic Games offers a $10 per month Battle Pass as well as myriad in-game item purchases — from clothing and weapons to dance mores and player reactions — to keep the game’s 125 million active…

Since Nintendo launched the Switch Lite on September 20, I have transitioned to using it as one of my primary gaming devices. And while I immediately fell in love with the dedicated handheld, I’ve had some concerns about durability. I take the Switch Lite with me everywhere. I drag it along around the house, in the car, and any other place you can think of. But I don’t keep it in a case or in…

Valve revealed Steam’s Best of 2019 lists, including the top-selling VR games of the year. The section is split into platinum, gold, silver and bronze subdivisions, along with a section purely for the best VR releases of 2019. The platinum category features the top VR sellers “as measured by gross revenue this year,” Steam said. It consists of Blade & Sorcery, Skryim VR, Arizona…

Facebook still isn’t done snapping up big-name Twitch streamers. Corinna Kopf, who’s also known for her YouTube presence, is switching to Facebook Gaming for livestreams. Her first stream on the service will take place December 30th at 7PM Eastern. She explained the move as “expanding [her] gaming career,” and saw Facebook as a place that “empowers” both her…