Money February 10, 2020 The income of the New Zealand game dev has more than doubled in two years. But the market lacks personnel The income of the New Zealand game dev for the 2019 fiscal year exceeded $131 million. Since 2017, the turnover of the local industry has more than doubled.
Money February 7, 2020 Take-Two reported a drop in revenue in the third fiscal quarter Take-Two presented a report for the last fiscal quarter and a forecast for the whole year. Also, its management sparingly commented on the departure of Dan Houser from Rockstar.
Money February 6, 2020 A startup from the developers of Mass Effect and League of Legends has attracted $5 million in investments Elodie Games studio raised $5 million. She’s going to make cross-platform games.
Money February 6, 2020 Zynga earned $1.32 billion for the year and avoided losses thanks to the sale of the office Zynga reported for the fourth quarter of 2019 and for the year itself. She has record revenue for both periods. However, the publisher was barely able to avoid annual losses.
Money February 5, 2020 Sony has a 20% drop in game sales: fewer people buy PlayStation 4 and pay less in fritupley Sony has reported on the results of sales of the gaming segment for October-December 2019. It sold products for ¥158.5 billion ($1.4 billion) less than in the same period a year earlier.
Money February 5, 2020 The new Pathfinder from Owlcat Games raised $300 thousand on Kickstarter in just one day Announced in December, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous successfully launched on Kickstarter. Backers funded the crowdfunding campaign of the game from the Russian Owlcat Games in just a day.
Money February 4, 2020 Capcom’s profit for the three fiscal quarters turned out to be a record in its history Capcom reported for three fiscal quarters (April-December) and updated its forecast for the fiscal year. The company lost in revenue, but achieved a record profit.
Money February 3, 2020 Supercell invested $1.1 million in the indie studio of natives of DICE The authors of Clash of Clans have invested $1.1 million in the Wild Games studio. This is a new mobile developer created by natives of DICE.
Money February 3, 2020 Fire Emblem Heroes will get a subscription for $9.49 per month Fire Emblem Heroes will add a subscription. It seems that Nintendo has decided that its most earning mobile game is capable of earning even more.
Money February 3, 2020 Ubisoft acquired 75% of Idle Miner Tycoon Developer The French publisher Ubisoft bought 75% of Kolibri Games. The latter develops popular idle clickers.
Money January 31, 2020 EA earned $1.12 billion in digital sales in three months. This is 70% of her quarterly income 70% of Electronic Arts‘ quarterly revenue comes from digital sales. This follows from the publisher’s report for the third fiscal quarter.
Money January 30, 2020 Nintendo has sold 52 million copies of Switch Sales of Switch and games for it please Nintendo. For two and a half years, 52 million consoles of the Japanese company and 310.6 million Switch copies of games have been sold in the world.
Money January 30, 2020 Gaming expenses of 20 million residents of Malaysia for the year amounted to $673 million The video game market in Malaysia earned $673 million in 2019. This makes the country one of the largest gaming markets in Southeast Asia.
Money January 30, 2020 Microsoft’s gaming revenue for the year fell by 21% Microsoft summed up the results of the second fiscal quarter. Her gaming business is not well. Sales of both devices and software have sunk.
Money January 30, 2020 Minecraft and Destiny are the best—selling new IP of the decade in the UK The charts of the best-selling new IP in British retail for a decade have arrived. Minecraft and Destiny, respectively, became bestsellers in pieces and in money.
Money January 29, 2020 Coda invested $4 million in the hyper-casual game development platform Mobile startup Coda has raised $4 million to create a hyper-casual games platform. The investor was London Venture Partners.
Money January 29, 2020 SuperData: in 2023, the XR industry will earn $14.9 billion The analytical firm SuperData has compiled a rating of the best-selling VR helmets for the 4th quarter of 2019. She also made a forecast for the augmented reality (XR) market. In three years, its turnover will reach $14.9 billion.
Money January 29, 2020 The total revenue of six Nintendo mobile games reached $1 billion. 61% of the amount is for Fire Emblem Heroes Nintendo has earned $1 billion on its mobile games. This is without taking into account Pokemon titles.
Money January 28, 2020 73% of developers want to give Steam less than 30% of revenue Steam takes an unreasonably large share from sales, according to most developers. This is indicated by the results of the GDC survey.
Money January 28, 2020 Media: Ninja streamer could get $20-30 million from Mixer for leaving Twitch In August, the popular Ninja streamer preferred Mixer to the more popular Twitch platform. The estimated amount of his deal with Mixer became known — $ 20-30 million.