News July 23, 2024 Capcom will not abandon physical game releases The share of physical game sales worldwide is gradually decreasing, nevertheless, Capcom does not plan to stop releasing games on discs and cartridges. The company announced this during a Q&A session at a shareholders’ meeting.
News July 16, 2024 Resident Evil 7 is selling poorly on iOS On July 2, Capcom released Resident Evil 7 Biohazard on iOS devices. According to the MobileGamer portal, citing AppMagic data, the game is not popular. In two weeks, it was downloaded about 83,000 times.
News July 1, 2024 Capcom bought two-thirds of the shares of Minimum Studios, a company specializing in game animations Capcom has established another subsidiary. This is the Taiwanese company Minimum Studios, which specializes in creating animations for games.
News June 19, 2024 Sales of Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin have surpassed 2 million copies Capcom announced that Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin has sold 2 million copies worldwide. It took the game nearly three years to reach this milestone, having been released on July 9, 2021.
News June 11, 2024 Resident Evil Village has been purchased 10 million times. Capcom announced that Resident Evil Village has surpassed 10 million copies sold faster than any other game in the franchise.
News May 28, 2024 Dragon’s Dogma 2 sales have reached 3 million copies Capcom announced that Dragon’s Dogma 2 has been purchased 3 million times. The game reached this milestone a little over two months after its release: it was launched on March 22.
News May 23, 2024 Online Street Fighter 6 on Steam has grown 2.5 times thanks to a new fighter and a major patch. On the evening of May 22, Street Fighter 6 was close to breaking its record for concurrent players on Steam. The fighting game was played by 70,202 users simultaneously. This was only 371 players fewer than the peak achieved right after its release.
News April 26, 2024 Monster Hunter Now has been downloaded over 15 million times Niantic and Capcom have announced that the mobile AR game Monster Hunter Now has officially crossed a major new milestone. It has collected 15 million downloads in seven and a half months since its release.
News April 25, 2024 Capcom has raised its financial forecast for the year — its games are selling very well Capcom has revised its forecast for the last fiscal year (April 2023 – March 2024). It expects its revenue and operating profit to reach new record levels.
News April 2, 2024 Total sales of Dragon’s Dogma 2 exceeded 2.5 million copies. The game dropped to sixth place in the weekly Steam chart Capcom announced that Dragon’s Dogma 2 has crossed the 2.5 million copies sold milestone in less than two weeks: the role-playing game was released on March 22.
News March 26, 2024 Dragon’s Dogma 2 surpassed Helldivers 2 in weekly sales on Steam The role-playing action game Dragon’s Dogma 2 topped the chart of the highest—grossing premium games on Steam over the past week, shifting Helldivers 2 from the top. However, Capcom’s novelty failed to get to the first place in the overall chart, which also takes into account free games – Counter-Strike 2 is leading it for the second week in a row.
News March 22, 2024 Dragon’s Dogma 2 has a negative rating on Steam: it is scolded for microtransactions and the inability to start a new game On the night of March 22, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam and consoles. The game instantly garnered thousands of angry reviews.
News March 13, 2024 Sales of the Resident Evil 4 remake exceeded 7 million copies The remake of Resident Evil 4 overcame this milestone in just under a year: the game was released on March 24, 2023.
News March 12, 2024 Dragon’s Dogma 2 entered the top 10 games by weekly sales on Steam Steam users are actively pre-ordering Dragon’s Dogma 2. On the eve of the release, the game reached the sixth place in the weekly Steam bestseller chart. If you remove free games and Steam Deck from the top, then Dragon’s Dogma 2 will get the second place.
News March 12, 2024 Sales of Monster Hunter: World exceeded 25 million copies Capcom shared another achievement of Monster Hunter: World in honor of the anniversary of the series — in March 2024, Monster Hunter turned 20 years old.
News March 6, 2024 Capcom to increase salaries for Japanese employees Capcom has announced that it will pay more to both current and new employees of Japanese divisions. Their salaries will be increased at different times.
News January 16, 2024 Sales of Street Fighter 6 exceeded 3 million copies Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 has been purchased more than 3 million times worldwide. The fighting game overcame this milestone by January 3, seven months after its release.
News November 1, 2023 Capcom: at the technical level, mods differ little from cheats It seems that anti-cheat in Capcom games can block not only cheats, but also mods. One of the developers of the company during the Capcom Open Conference Professional RE:2023 stated that from the point of view of the implementation of mods work as cheats and other malware.
News October 26, 2023 Capcom’s semi-annual report: revenues continue to grow, sales of Street Fighter 6 approached 2.5 million copies Capcom has published a financial report for April-September 2023. We share the main thing from it.
News October 24, 2023 The police stopped the activities of the hacker group that hacked Capcom Europol and Eurojust reported on the successful operation against the hacker group Ragnar Locker, which in November 2020 stole 1 TB of Capcom confidential data.