Microsoft was biggest games publisher globally in December, VGC reports

Roughly $465M was spent on Microsoft-published (MSFT) games in December, making the Xbox maker the globe’s biggest games publisher across PC, PlayStation (SONY), and Xbox, VideoGamesChronicle’s Christopher Dring reports, citing data from Ampere. The data include sales of Activision’s “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” the first new “Call of Duty” released since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, and Bethesda’s “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,” which launched in December, the author notes. Microsoft was “comfortably” ahead of Electronic Arts (EA) in terms of sales for the month, which generated $366M in the same period to finish in second place, the author says.