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By John J Edwards

May 15, 2020 at 2:31 PM UTC

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Americans stuck at home have flocked in droves to video gaming, sending sales to a quarterly record.

U.S. consumer spending on video games jumped to $10.9 billion in the first quarter, up 9% from a year earlier, research firm NPD Group said in a report released Friday.