Garry Newman, the developer behind the popular survival game Rust, announced earlier today that Rust has seen 329,970 units or $4.4 million worth of copies refunded back to players. Added sales stats to our backend today. These are Rust's real Steam Refund figures. pic.twitter.com/IhjUsJUN9N — Garry Newman (@garrynewman) June 28, 2017 Despite still being in Early Access since its first [...]
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Lineage M, the mobile remake of NCSoft's classic Lineage MMORPG, is currently the top grossing app in South Korea since its official release last Wednesday. Within 7 hours of launching, Lineage M has dominated the top spot in both Android and iOS app stores, with an estimated 9.7 million downloads so far. Some users have reported difficulties downloading the app [...]
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Blizzard is looking to kill two birds with one stone with their upcoming patches for Overwatch and Hearthstone, by implementing changes in the loot systems in both games to reduce the frequency of duplicate items received. In Overwatch's latest developer update, Jeff Kaplan explains that the reduction of duplicates coming to the lootbox system should be "immediately evident and extremely [...]
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A recent move by Paradox Interactive to raise prices on their games has been met with backlash and criticism from users. These price adjustments have been made in select regions, with 26 countries including Russia, China, and UK having been affected by the new market price changes. Paradox discusses the reasons behind the increased price adjustments below... "This is something [...]
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It's been a year since Pokemon Go has been released, and Niantic and The Pokemon Company are gearing up to host the game's first anniversary with a series of special events. Pokemon Go is looking to celebrate its milestone with Pokemon GO Fest, the game's very first live event, where trainers can head to Chicago’s Grant Park for a fun-filled [...]
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Discord, the company behind the synonymous voicechat app for gamers, has quietly raised an impressive $50 million in the past year or so. While Discord gained its initial start as a game developer, the 2013 release of the ill-fated mobile MOBA Fates Forever veered them off course into a new direction. Fastforward to 2015, Discord has just unveiled the voicechat [...]
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Just today, Twitch has announced that those who are currently participating in the Twitch Affiliates program will be able to receive a cut of referred games and in-game microtransactions. The referral system was previously exclusive to Twitch Partners, but now Twitch Affiliates will also be able to earn a 5% kickback from every game or microtransaction referred through their channel. [...]
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Only just recently, Overwatch China had released the data on the probabilities of their lootboxes. This was in accordance with the "lootbox law" that had come into effect on May 1st, 2017 in China, a new law which mandates all game publishers to publicly announce the probabilities on lootboxes and/or items with randomly generated properties. However, Overwatch China seems to [...]
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The Entertainment Software Association is taking the city of Chicago to court, in hopes of overturning the legislation of applying Chicago's amusement tax to online goods and services. Chicago's amusement tax applies to shows and services provided within the city, such as movie theaters, live concerts, and subscription TV. However in the past two years or so, the amusement tax [...]
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According to a recent report, China's mobile Esports revenue is expected to earn $6.78 billion by the end of 2017. The estimate is projected on numbers from 2016, where mobile Esports revenue had net China $1.9 billion, triple the figures seen in 2015. Given the growing boom in China's mobile Esports scene, revenues are predicted to follow the same upwards [...]
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