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5 votes
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New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla's vehicles – but the company will face a more competitive market in 2020
9 votes -
Steam's highest grossing games of 2019
14 votes -
The Game Awards - Megathread
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a...
The Game Awards start tonight at 5:30 PM Pacific time (Dec 13, 02:30 UTC). There are a lot of announcements, sales, and events going on associated with it though, so I thought I'd try to collect a bunch of it here, and then we can discuss and post the actual winners in here later as well.
Sales
Announcements/Releases
- Sayonara Wild Hearts released on PC (20% off)
Events
- "The Game Festival" - 13 first-look demos of indie games available on Steam for 48 hours (announcement post)
Edit after the show: Article on CNET that lists all the winners of awards, as well as having embedded copies of most of the trailers/announcements/etc. that were shown
My original lists (incomplete)
Winners
- Best Community Support: Destiny 2
- Best Score & Music: Death Stranding
- Best Fighting Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Best Narrative: Disco Elysium
- Best Audio Design: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best Strategy Game: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Best Art Direction: Control
- Best Action Game: Devil May Cry 5
- Games for Impact: Gris
- Best Family Game: Luigi's Mansion 3
- Best Sports/Racing Game: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Best Mobile Game: Call of Duty: Mobile
- Best Multiplayer Game: Apex Legends
- Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite
Edit: I'm not going to keep updating the winners, I'm sure there are a ton of lists out there - I'll edit in a link at the end
- Best Esports Coach: Zonic
- Best Esports Event: League of Legends World Championship 2019
- Best Esports Host: Sjokz
- Best Esports Team: G2 Esports
- Best Esports Player: Bugha
- Content Creator of the Year: Shroud
New trailers/announcements
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: X-Men Rise of the Phoenix DLC 2
- Man Eater - Gameplay Trailer
- Humankind - Official "Your Story" Gameplay Trailer
- No More Heroes 3 - The Return
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake - Cloud Strife Trailer
- Xbox Series X - World Premiere - releasing holiday 2020
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – The Game Awards 2019 – Announce Trailer (in-engine)
- Godfall - Official Cinematic Reveal Trailer
- Bravely Default II – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
- Warframe Empyrean - Official Cinematic Launch Trailer
- Magic: The Gathering - Theros Beyond Death Official Trailer
- prologue - Reveal Trailer
- Sons of the Forest Trailer
- Ruined King: A League of Legends Story - Official Teaser Trailer
- Cyberpunk 2077 - Behind the Music
- Dungeons & Dragons - Dark Alliance Announcement Trailer
- Weird West - Reveal Trailer
- Magic: Legends - Cinematic Teaser Trailer
- Ghost of Tsushima - Gameplay Trailer
- Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer
- Naraka: Bladepoint - Official Announcement Trailer
Edit: dear god how long is this show? I'll edit in a link to a good summary later, I'm not going to keep watching.
Italicized links probably need a better source
16 votes -
The world’s best cheese? It’s blue and comes from Oregon
4 votes -
Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and dramatically drops financial targets
8 votes -
How a horrible goose topped the gaming chart
11 votes -
Vinyl is poised to outsell CDs for the first time since 1986
12 votes -
Analysis of PC game sales on Steam in 2019, by Mike Rose (founder of publisher No More Robots)
13 votes -
Number of Interrail tickets sold in Sweden has nearly doubled so far this year as the country's no-fly trend has taken off
12 votes -
What the games industry can learn from Warframe
6 votes -
Electric vehicles made up almost half of all cars sold in Norway in 2019
10 votes -
Risk of Rain 2 has passed one million sales on Steam in the first month of Early Access
8 votes -
"Avengers: Endgame" has shattered all box office records
10 votes -
Hunchback of Notre-Dame goes to top of bestseller list after fire
12 votes -
Romance and erotica is the top revenue-generating literary category in the US, accounting for more than half of all mass-market paperbacks sold
8 votes -
Captain Marvel has made $760 million worldwide. $1 billion is in its sights.
18 votes -
Tesla shares tumble after company unveils ‘underwhelming’ Model Y
9 votes -
'Captain Marvel' shatters stereotypes with $34M Friday in China
7 votes -
Demand for cassettes surges as music fans hit rewind
10 votes -
Global smartphone shipments will rebound in 2019: IDC
3 votes -
'Records falling everywhere': Australian solar panel demand goes through the roof
14 votes -
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey becomes the highest played in the series with 33% more players on Steam than last year
8 votes -
Tesla's Model 3 is becoming one of America's best-selling sedans
15 votes -
Gala apple passes Red Delicious as America's favorite
9 votes -
The details behind publishing on steam. Earnings, discounts, wishlists.
15 votes -
Google adds warning for users searching for Fortnite in Play Store, could lose $50 million or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing it
18 votes -
Huawei overtakes Apple to become number two in smartphone sales in Q2 2018
5 votes -
Why do people go door to door selling steaks?
Nothing against 'em, keep on your grind. But like. It just seems a weird product/model fit to me. What's the benefit of doing door-to-door work for meat?
11 votes -
‘Fortnite,’ ‘PUBG’ led to rocketing headset sales, Turtle Beach says
7 votes -
Beat Saber is now the highest rated title on Steam – VR or otherwise
4 votes -
God of War sold over 3.1 million units in opening weekend, PS4 record for exclusives
@playstation: God of War sold over 3.1 million units in its first three days, making it the fastest-selling PS4 exclusive ever: https://t.co/Rp5gzbR9Ep Congratulations, @SonySantaMonica!
5 votes -
Mobile gaming cements its dominance, takes majority of worldwide sales
5 votes