Xbox fans will be excited to see what Microsoft has in store for them with their latest addition to the Xbox platform — the newly launched Xbox Game Pass. The Xbox Game Pass, which went live for Xbox Live Gold users earlier today, is a monthly game subscription service that allows players unlimited access to a rotating catalogue of games. [...]
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In a recent Corporate Strategy Presentation[PDF] Sony revealed that the Playstation Network has reached 70 million Monthly Active Users (MAU). More importantly, 26.4 million of those are paying members. With an annual subscription price of $60, that's a nice chunk of change for Sony. The PlayStation 4 has been highly successful for Sony thus far with total shipments by the [...]
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Blizzard and Valve settled their dispute over who owns the rights to the Dota name back in 2012, but the jury's still out on whether either company has a legal exclusive right to the vaunted MOBA franchise. uCool and Lilith Games, the mobile gaming studios behind Dota Legends and Heroes Charge respectively are being sued by Valve and Blizzard for [...]
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While any sort of MMO development is as-yet unconfirmed, Paradox Interactive announced today that it has opened a new studio in Malmö, Sweden that will focus on the development of mobile games. The studio will employ a "small team of experienced developers" with the overall goal of "bringing mobile gamers the kind of deep, challenging experiences the world has come [...]
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Jagex announced today that it has partnered with Improbable in order to use SpatialOS in future game projects. Even just one sentence into this article, I know what you're probably wondering. "Does this have anything to do with the nebulous NextGen leak?" I can hear you ask. The answer is that we don't know. What we do know is that [...]
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Chinese tech giant Tencent is investing $90M in Pocket Gems, the studio behind the fast-growing success of War Dragons, a 3D mobile game which revolves around realtime strategy and PvP play. Having already invested an initial $60M for 20% of Pocket Gems, this current investment of $90M pushes Tencent's ownership of the mobile studio to 38%. Pocket Gems is now [...]
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The British software studio Improbable has raised $502 million in funding through a Series B financing round led by SoftBank. The young tech firm's core product is the game engine SpatialOS which promises to make it easier for game studios to scale persistent worlds with cloud-based server distribution. What's striking is how bullish the CEO Herman Narula is on the [...]
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Nexon reported record revenues and profits today with the release of their Q1 2017 earnings report. Revenue is up a whopping 30% year over year thanks to the strong performance of Dungeon Fighter in China. While Netmarble and most other companies are growing rapidly in Mobile, Nexon still gets the bulk of their revenue growth from PC. PC Revenues grew [...]
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NCSoft's Q1 2017 financial results are in and they show a shocking 74% drop in net income—both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. The company's sales only dropped 16% quarter-over-quarter and 1% year-over-year, but other factors, including a decrease in online game sales and an increased number of employees, have lead to the dramatic decrease in profit. To illustrate just how low NCSoft's [...]
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In compliance with China's newly implemented law, where companies are now legally required to publish lootbox probabilities and drop rates, Overwatch China has released the probability parameters for their lootboxes on their website. The probabilities listed are as follows... Lootbox contents: Each lootbox contains 4 items. The items that you can obtain include cosmetics, in-game currency, or in-game currency for [...]
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