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Video game sales returned to growth in June with an assist from the Caped Crusader. June sales of new video game products at U.S. retail rose 18% vs. June 2014 to $869.4 million, the NPD Group reported late Thursday. In May, game sales fell 13% year over year. Video game hardware sales rose 8% to $313.1 million. Game software sales jumped 21% to $345.5 million. And game accessories sales leaped 34% to $210.7 million, NPD said. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner (TWX), was the big winner among game publishers in June. It had the No. 1 game in “Batman: Arkham Knight” and had four of the top 10 best-selling games last month. Its other games in the top 10 included “Lego Jurassic World,” “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” and “Mortal Kombat X.” Counting only its 12 days of sales in June,… Scalper1 News
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