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01 OPM readers are social distancing in serious style

“THE PREDICTABLE RULES GAME WORLDS FOLLOW CAN BE COMFORTING IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES.”

Sony’s Play At Home initiative offers us all free games (see p19), but many PlayStation owners were browsing their game libraries long before that was announced in mid-April. Between 5 March and 5 April, Grand Theft Auto V, FIFA 20, and 2019’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare all saw massive increases in new players – and they were far from the only ones.

According to , which bases its estimates on data drawn from the PSN API, Modern Warfare was the

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