Mobile games have really hit it off these past few years. So much so that big name studios like Blizzard Entertainment have started slicing off their own piece of the pie. Currently, Hearthstone is the only mobile game in Blizzard’s expansive portfolio but it looks like that’s about to change. The gaming giant has recently put out a job opening [...]
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ChangYou seems to be on somewhat of a major downturn right now, as its first quarter 2017 revenues are showing non-trivial decreases year-over-year. In total, the company made $120 million in revenue, an 8% decrease year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. Online game revenue was a mere $85 million, a 17% decreases year-over-year and an 11% decrease quarter-over-quarter. ChangYou claims that the decrease [...]
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Netmarble Games, the studio best known for Marvel: Future Fight, Lineage 2: Revolution, and Seven Knights, raised $2.3 billion in its initial public offering today valuing the company at a bit over $11 billion, making it the largest gaming company in South Korea, and one of the largest in the world. For the sake of context, Nexon and NCSoft are [...]
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Today, Twitch announced a new program that will help non-partnered streamers make a little bit of money: dubbed the Twitch Affiliate Program. It wont help you make Twitch a full-time job, but serves as a segue as streamers build their communities and eventually reach partnership. "At launch, Affiliates will be able to start using Cheering with Bits on their channel [...]
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On this Grindfest Friday the MMOs.com crew revisits Neverwinter after a very long hiatus: what's changed, what's new, what's goodie? We'll also be giving away keys for exclusive in-game mounts during the stream. When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST If you can't make it you can always watch on the MMOs.com YouTube channel once its [...]
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Nexon announced that its mobile strategy game DomiNations—developed in conjunction with Big Huge Games—has earned $100 million since it released back in April, 2015—just over two years ago. Since then, over 32 million players have downloaded, installed, and played. How many of those are still logged in? Well, while we don't have that figure, we can be sure it's not [...]
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Despite news of the Southeast Asian version of Phantasy Star Online 2 shutting down, the game still remains a huge moneymaker for Sega. In fact, Phantasy Star Online 2 makes so much money that Sega highlighted the game in their March FY 2017 earnings report which came out on February 2, 2017. Take a look below: There's obviously a lot [...]
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The global games industry continues to grow. Highlighting this growth, games industry intelligence firm Newzoo has released new estimates on how they think the market will continue to evolve in 2017. The topline figure is expected to increase from $101.1 billion in 2016 to $108.9 this year, a 7.7% increase. That huge figure includes revenue from all platforms: Mobile, PC, [...]
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After WildStar was relegated to "other sales" in NCSoft's earnings report earlier this year, the last thing I expected to hear was that Carbine Studios is hiring staff for the development of another game. And yet, Carbine Studios is hiring staff for the development of another game. Ultimately, it makes sense, seeing as the company is a subsidiary of NCSoft [...]
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Apparently, Twitch will soon add two new subscription options for viewers to support their favorite streamers, according to a leaked email posted to the NeoGAF forums. Beyond the already available $5 tier, a new $10 and $25 tier will enter beta testing soon. There are, of course, benefits to choosing a higher-than-Netflix priced subscription: faster access to emotes. Everyone loves [...]
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