Sales with computer and video games and corresponding hardware has grown by 22 percent to 4.6 billion euros in the first six months of 2021 compared to the same period of the previous year (source). The information comes from the Game Association of the German Games Industry. The basis of the data is surveys of the market research companies GfK and App Annie. Among other things, major growth drivers include ingame and in-app purchases. Sales in this segment have grown 34 percent to around 2 billion euros in the first half of the year. The great demand for appropriate hardware such as game consoles, graphics cards and Co. contributed 24 percent to around 1.7 billion euros on sales growth. Also with fees for online networks has been significantly more implemented. Here, the increase was 18 percent to 378 million euros. _ The strong demand for games and corresponding hardware continues after the particularly high increase in 2020 this year. In particular, the lockdown phases during the...