Square Enix reported their quarterly results for the October - December 2017 period today and their MMO revenues stood out as particularly strong, coming in at 7.6 billion Yen (~$69.6M) thanks to "robust sales and operating income growth from disk sales and increase of paying subscribers" from Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X. Sales are up 36% from the [...]
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SuperdataResearch released their 2017 Year in Review report today and in it they revealed the top free to play PC games by revenue. The #1 spot should come as no surprise - League of Legends, which took in a whopping $2.1B in revenue in 2017, up from $1.8B in 2016. Take a look at the full list below: Dungeon Fighter [...]
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All eyes have been on EA and BioWare and their upcoming online shooter Anthem since the game was first announced in E3 2017 and BioWare seems to be feeling the pressure. According to Kotaku, the bulk of BioWare personnel in both their Austin and Emdonton studios are now working on Anthem. Sources also say that there’s a notion that the [...]
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While Fortnite may be the biggest game in the Western world, it's definitely one of the highest grossing free to play games. According to Superdataresearch, Fortnite Battle Royale earned a whopping $89 million in December thanks to its continued success on PC and console. The game ranks as the 6th highest grossing game in the world on PC, right behind [...]
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City State Entertainment made a major announcement today concerning their PvP focused MMORPG Camelot Unchained. The studio has secured a $7.5 million financing round with GF Capital Management & Advisors. Mark Jacobs, founder and CEO of City Statement Entertainment, took the time today to stream a Q&A session regarding this investment round. We learned that GF Capital Management and Mark [...]
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Chronicles of Elyria announced today in a lengthy post that they will no longer be using SpatialOS and will instead work on in-house solutions. The game's developers cited "financial viability" of continuing to work with the folks at Improbable (SpatialOS Owner) to solve various problems that arose while using SpatialOS. Chronicles of Elyria Head Honcho (Founder) Jeromy "Caspian" Walsh explained: [...]
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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds released a new update today titled 1.0 Update #2 which introduced 2 new Loot crates to the game, the Desperado crate (requires key to unlock) and the Biker crate (free to open). Like previous loot boxes, these crates contain a mix of items of various rarities spanning from the common items worth a few pennies to the ultra [...]
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In an investor presentation released in November Black Desert Online's developer, Pearl Abyss, revealed some interesting statistics about the game. The one that caught my eye most was that in Q3, 2017 Black Desert generated 57% of its sales from the "Americas / Europe" region, whereas South Korea only accounted for 18% of sales; the remaining 26% came from other [...]
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Bae Jae Hyun was the Producer of NCSoft's Latest PC MMORPG, Blade & Soul, and back in June 2017, NCSoft's stock went down by 11.41%. Hyun held the position of Vice President of NCSoft when he sold 8,000 of his shares in the company, worth about 3 Million USD. The plunge in stock worth was a direct result of consumer [...]
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In Nexon's Q3, 2017 earnings report the company wrote off the entire value of Lawbreakers, which means they now value the game at $0 on their balance sheet. While Nexon didn't break down how much money they lost on the title, the Lawbreakers write-off made up a "majority of the total other expenses" in the quarter which was ~$32.6M. 【Q】 [...]
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