Movie adaptations of popular video games have been reeling in the big bucks and topping box office charts over the past couple of years. Capcom and Constantin Films’ Resident Evil: The Final Chapter alone grossed more than $300 million worldwide in 2016. According to Variety, Capcom will be teaming up with Constantin Films again for the movie adaptation of the [...]
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Cliff Bleszinski announced on twitter today that Boss Key Studios is officially shut down. The company's 2 products Lawbreakers and Radical Heights will be shutting down in the near future. Check out the full statement below: Link to original tweet Anyone following Lawbreakers or Radical Heights should have seen this coming. Lawbreakers wasn't able to gain traction and quickly lost [...]
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On May 10, 2018 Nexon released their Q1 2018 earnings report. A more digestible Investor Presentation slide deck was also released and is filled with interesting charts and figures. The headline figures show that Nexon had a great quarter: revenues were up 21% year over year, due significantly to the stronger than expected results of Dungeon Fighter Online in China. [...]
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South Korean gaming giant NCSoft reported their Q1 2018 earnings today with total revenue coming in at 475,159M KRW ($444M USD), down 11% quarter over quarter and up 98% year over year. As with their previous earnings reports, take a look at sales by game: Despite a slight dip from last quarter, mobile games continued to dominate, bringing in over [...]
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Little Orbit announced today that they acquired GamersFirst.com and APB Reloaded along with it. While GamersFirst is billed as a global games portal with 30+ million registered users, it's a shell of what it once was. It used to be a thriving game portal that published numerous successful games like Warframe, Mu Online, War Rock and other titles. GamersFirst today [...]
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Activision Blizzard reporting $2 billion in revenue for Q1 2018 which was a record high for the company first quarter. The quarter's success was attributed to strong performance at 3 games in particular - World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Candy Crush. The company reached 374M monthly active users in the company across all of their games. Despite Blizzard's iconic lineup [...]
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A new report by Newzoo shows that mobile gaming now makes up over half of the global gaming market by revenue. In their latest quarterly update to their Global Games Market Report, Newzoo forecasts that total gaming revenue for 2018 will hit $137.9, a 13.3% increase from last year. Mobile gaming will make up $70.3 billion (51%) of that total. [...]
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If you like helping your fellow gamers, the new Tutorial Contest for Vikings: War of Clans is for you. Helpful players have a chance of winning some serious in-game Gold just by writing a new tutorial for the strategy game game. The winning entries will be posted as the official community tutorials, and will be listed in game’s forum in [...]
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Daybreak Game Company has been hit hard with a round of layoffs affecting around 70 employees. Speculations later arose that the layoffs were due to the US Department of Treasury freezing assets of Russian oligarchs. Among those affected by the sanctions were Russian conglomerate Renova Group and its subsidiary Columbus Nova, which, just so happens to be the parent company [...]
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SuperData has published their monthly Worldwide Digital Games Market Report for March 2018 and it has a few surprises. League of Legends, which has graced the #1 PC spot since the inception of these reports, has finally been dethroned. The venerable MOBA has fallen to #2, usurped by Dungeon Fighter Online. While this does not necessarily indicate a decline in [...]
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