Microsoft was the No.1 games publisher in the world last month
Nearly $0.5bn was spent on Xbox games across Steam, PlayStation and Xbox in December
Christopher Dring is a games business veteran, beginning in QA in 2007 before joining UK busines publication MCV in 2007. He rose up to editor, a role he held for five years, before joining GamesIndustry.biz as publisher in 2016. He has contributed to Develop, BBC, The Observer and Sky News.