{"id":113113,"date":"2016-12-05T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113113"},"modified":"2016-12-05T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:04:00","slug":"the-highest-earning-pc-console-and-mobile-games-of-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/113113-the-highest-earning-pc-console-and-mobile-games-of-october-2016","title":{"rendered":"The highest-earning PC, console, and mobile games of October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, video game success has been measured by how many copies a game has sold.<\/p>\n<p>As micro-transactions have become more popular however, some surprising games have begun to top the list of &#8220;highest-grossing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With October historically being one of the bigger months for video game sales, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superdataresearch.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">SuperData Research<\/a><\/strong> took a list at the highest-grossing games of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, titles like League of Legends and Pokemon GO top their respective list but there are also games we have never even heard of proving to be massive money-makers.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full list below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"3\">Highest-earning games of October<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"36%\"><strong>PC <\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"36%\"><strong>Console<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"36%\"><strong>Mobile<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>League of Legends<\/td>\n<td>Battlefield 1<\/td>\n<td>Pokemon GO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crossfire<\/td>\n<td>Mafia III<\/td>\n<td>Clash Royale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>World of Warcraft<\/td>\n<td>FIFA 17<\/td>\n<td>Monster Strike<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dungeon Fighter Online<\/td>\n<td>Call of Duty: Black Ops III<\/td>\n<td>Clash of Clans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization VI<\/td>\n<td>Grand Theft Auto V<\/td>\n<td>Mobile Strike<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Overwatch<\/td>\n<td>NBA 2K17<\/td>\n<td>Game of War: Fire Age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Battlefield 1<\/td>\n<td>Destiny<\/td>\n<td>Fantasy Westward Journey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>World of Tanks<\/td>\n<td>Gears of War 4<\/td>\n<td>Candy Crush Saga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DOTA 2<\/td>\n<td>FIFA 16<\/td>\n<td>Puzzle &amp; Dragons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fantasy Westward Journey Online II<\/td>\n<td>Star Wars Battlefront<\/td>\n<td>Clash of Kings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Greatest graphics card and gaming mouse deals in South Africa this week\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/113007-greatest-graphics-card-and-gaming-mouse-deals-in-south-africa-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Greatest graphics card and gaming mouse deals in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As micro-transactions have become more popular, some surprising titles have begun to top the list of highest-grossing games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":112839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,3,11681,4],"tags":[31,9907,23659,10698],"class_list":["post-113113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-earnings","tag-grossing","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113121,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113113\/revisions\/113121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}