Trion Worlds' Glyph client received a new update today and it is promising "a faster, lighter experience." According to Trion, the client was taking up far too much memory previously. It used to use an average of 200 MB of RAM in the background, but could use upwards of 400 MB at times. As of today's update, the client will [...]
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Surprise Surprise, Activsion Blizzard is REALLY good at making money. The company reported its most profitable quarter ever today with profit hitting $426 million for the 3 months ended March 31, 2017. Revenue came in at a record as well at $1.73 billion. Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, attributed the strong quarter to the success of Overwatch, which now [...]
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In a bid to combat reselling on "gray market" services like G2A, Steam announced major changes to their gifting system today. Going forward, players will only be able to make a gift purchase directly on the check-out page. The Gift to E-mail and Gift to Inventory options will be removed. Existing gift copies sitting in Steam inventories are unaffected and [...]
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ZeniMax Media, who you may know for The Elder Scrolls Online, recently threatened legal action against an indie developer for Kickstarted survival game Prey for the Gods. Why? Because the game name "Prey for the Gods" is too similar to "Prey:" the upcoming FPS by Bethesda Softworks, a subsidiary of ZeniMax. Oh boy. ZeniMax's legal team must be bored. In [...]
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At a recent industry conference, G2A's Senior Account Manager Mario Mirek sat down for an open Q&A session with developers. While the panel was hosted as an effort to introduce G2A's upcoming Direct service - an "open door" communication initiative between developers and G2A's retail platform; the session did not bode well for G2A as Mirek struggled to fend off [...]
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Another month, another report from our favorite video game intelligence group. SuperData's Worldwide Digital Games Market overview for March 2017 was released on April 27th. The report lists the top 10 highest grossing games on PC, Console, and Mobile platforms. As always, SuperData only reports on digital revenues, so hardware and physical box sales are not captured. Many of the [...]
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It seems like everyone has their own client these days and Wargaming is no exception. The company announced today that it has launched its own client, the Wargaming.net Game Center, for players who want to keep all of their Wargaming.net games in one place. The client effectively replaces the "regular launcher" for each of Wargaming's games, will keep all installed [...]
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When Adam Mudd was a teenager he created and sold the Titanium Stresser program, which has been used to launch DDoS attacks against Minecraft, Runescape, Teamspeak, Microsoft, and others. A judge sentenced the 20 year old to a young offender institution for two years, as reported by The Guardian. Among the targets was the fantasy game RuneScape, which had 25,000 [...]
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Mail.ru announced today that it has formed a new investment division that will be tasked with investing up to $100 million into the funding of games development. According to the announcement, "the division will be financing accomplished game studios and publishers that need funding for scaling, as well as young game developers." Mail.ru Group CEO Boris Dobrodeev had the following [...]
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It’s been nearly a year since Jagex and their flagship game RuneScape was acquired by the Chinese company Fukong Interactive Entertainment. So how are things fairing over at Jagex? Well, if their newly refurbished offices are any indication, they seem to be doing quite well. Jagex COO and Acting CEO Phil Mansell sits down with Game Industry’s Christopher Dring to [...]
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