In Nexon's Q4 2017 Q&A call with analysts and investors, an analyst from Goldman Sachs asks Nexon CEO the following question: "...Lawbreakers, now you're going into that console business but the title is going to be terminated, but you're in the console business. So, any takeaways from that? Any perspective on the console business in the incoming years?" -Time Stamp [...]
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Nexon's side scrolling action MOBA Hyper Universe launched its Ranked Mode preseason today which runs until February 22, 2018. Season 1 officially begins on February 22 and is available to anyone with a level 15 account and at least 12 hypers (including the free rotation). Pre-season wins and losses will not count towards their ranking. Besides the launch of ranked [...]
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Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent users this past weekend (Feb 3-4 2018) before suffering a major outage due to the high server demand. Epic Games posted an article on the outage earlier today titled Postmortem Of Service Outage At 3.4M CCU that goes into some of the details on how the meltdown played out. The post [...]
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Once again Activision Blizzard proved to the world that they're really good at making money. They reported revenues of a bit over $2B in Q4, 2017, beating their own estimate of $1.7B by a landslide. According to Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activsion Blizzard, "This was a record quarter to cap off a record year for Activision Blizzard". For the full [...]
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Critical Ops, the free to play mobile tactical shooter by the Finnish game studio Critical Force, announced today that their game hit 1 million daily active players. Since the game's launch its been downloaded over 34 million times. That's up from 500K daily players back in March, 2017. I've actually never heard of Critical Ops until today but expect a [...]
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Nexon reported their Q4 2017 and full year 2017 earnings report today. Full year revenues came in at 234.9B Yen ($2.16B USD), up from 183.1B Yen (~$1.7B USD) from 2016. Nexon CEO, Owen Mahoney, attributed the record annual revenue to the ongoing success of Dungeon Fighter Online and MapleStory, both of which recorded double-digit percentage growth in revenue year over [...]
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Hello again, class. Remember how last time we met, your professor kindly asked you to silence your cellphones? Well, this time, please turn them on, at full blast, and call for help, because we're investigating a haunted apartment building. It's time for The Clock Tower guide to the Fate/Grand Order x The Garden of Sinners collaboration event - The Garden [...]
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Elsword's 3rd Job is getting it's 2nd path today, much to delight of players who have been preparing for this moment for weeks. This latest update allows players to further develop their character's abilities, power, and looks. Along with this release is a new event that will continue until February 14th, along with new chocolate-based costumes. This event will also [...]
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On February 6, Mojang announced their decision to close down the official servers for their digital card game Scrolls. The game's servers will shut down on February 13, five years after the game's initial beta launch. To Mojang's credit, they are working on ways to allow the community to keep the game alive. Players will be provided a method to [...]
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NCSoft reported Q4 2017 earnings today and it showed company wide revenues increase a whopping 79% year over year thanks to strong performance in their mobile games division. While mobile game revenues were up huge in 2017, they did fall quarter over quarter. Guild Wars 2 reported strong sales growth in the 4th quarter thanks to the launch of the [...]
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