A few weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment announced that they were pushing through with this year’s BlizzCon in spite of the coronavirus pandemic. Well, it looks like they’re cancelling the event after all. “During this time, we’ve had many discussions about what holding a convention could look like in light of all the health and safety considerations we’d want to make. [...]
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Earlier this year, Daybreak Games founded three new spinoff studios: Darkpaw Games, Dimensional Ink, and Rogue Planet Games. Each of these studios was tasked with exclusively handling the EverQuest franchise, DC Universe Online, and the PlanetSide franchise respectively, while H1Z1 remained with Daybreak. Today, we have word that Daybreak registered the trademark for another studio called Wandering Monster Games courtesy [...]
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French video game developer and publisher Ubisoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and Apple for allegedly ignoring the publisher’s request to remove Area F2 from their respective stores, a game that Ubisoft says is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege. “R6S is among the most popular competitive multiplayer games in the world, and is among [...]
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The South Korean gaming giant NCSoft reported recording breaking Q1 revenues and profits this last week led by the incredibly strong performance of Lineage 2M (which launched late last year). Total sales came in at 731,111M KRW ($593M USD) with operating profit at 241,424M KRW ($196M). More interestingly though is the company's breakdown of sales by game. Lineage 2M had [...]
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Square Enix reported their fiscal year 2020 earnings report today for the year ended March 31, 2020 (Their fiscal year ran from March 31, 2019 to March 31, 2020). Total company-side sales came in at 260.5B Yen ($2.43B USD) and operating income (profit) of 32.7B Yen ($310M USD). Company-wide profit margin was 12.6% for the year. Square Enix's MMO division [...]
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In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced most companies around the world to a standstill, game development studios continue to thrive thanks to the digital nature of the gaming industry. One of these studios is Activision Blizzard whose CEO, Bobby Kotick, assures gamers that their 2020 projects are still on track for release. “As of now, we're on [...]
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Square Enix announced today that they're revising upwards their profit forecast for the year (April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020) due to strong performance from "Final Fantasy XIV" and the mobile game "Dragon Quest Walk". Square Enix reported the following in the announcement: "...the Company now expects higher operating income, ordinary income, and profit attributable to owners of parent [...]
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Gaming industry powerhouses David Brevik and Bill Wang have teamed up and formed a new publishing studio called Skystone Games. Brevik is best known as the creator of Diablo and co-founder of Blizzard North. He also served as CEO of Gazillion Entertainment while Bill Wang was the former General Manager General Manager of Global Investment and currently the CEO of [...]
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The Xbox Series X won’t be coming out until later this year, but Microsoft is keen to get the hype train rolling with a new 25-minute video that shows off gameplay footage and cinematics from some of the games that are being developed and optimized for the next-gen console. “Developers are using the hardware to achieve their dreams and their [...]
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With everyone staying indoors thanks to the Coronavirus quarantines, no one should be surprised that Activision Blizzard reported strong earnings in the first 3 months of the year. Revenue for the quarter which ended on March 31, 2020 came in at $1.79B, which beat the company's own projections by over $100M. World of Warcraft, despite DOUBLING in monthly active users [...]
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