Final Fantasy XIV Activity Helps Lift Square Enix Results
Final Fantasy XIV activity and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth sales helped Square Enix report an 88.6% year-over-year operating-income increase.
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EA Poised to Go Private in Record-Breaking $55 Billion Deal Led by Saudi Arabian Investment Fund
Electronic Arts, the publisher behind EA Sports FC, Apex Legends, and the long-running Madden NFL series, is set to leave the public markets. The company has reached an agreement to be acquired for roughly $55 billion by a bidding group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) alongside tech-focused investor Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners. Assuming regulators [...]
Read moreBlizzard Files Lawsuit Against Turtle WoW, One of the Largest WoW Private Servers
Blizzard Entertainment has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of “Turtle WoW” today, alleging the private server enterprise infringes World of Warcraft copyrights and trademarks, circumvents anti-piracy protections, and even constitutes a racketeering enterprise. The complaint was filed August 29, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Case No. 2:25-cv-08194). Turtle WoW has long [...]
Read moreNexon’s Q2 2025 Results: MapleStory Drives Growth While ARC Raiders Locks in October Launch
Nexon’s latest earnings reveal a solid second quarter, with its long-running franchises doing most of the heavy lifting. The Tokyo-listed South Korean developer & publisher reported revenue of ¥118.9 billion ($810 million) for the three months ending June 30, 2025. That figure is down 3 percent year over year in yen terms but up 6 percent once currency swings are [...]
Read moreSquare Enix Reports Weak Q1 Earnings, Sales Down 10.7% Year over Year
Square Enix reported their Q1 earnings today with sales down 10.7% year over year. Sales came in at ¥59.2 billion ($400 million) vs ¥69.9 billion last year. Weak topline revenue was attributed to lower sales in HD Games (packaged games), MMOs, and mobile games. MMO net sales for the quarter were ¥9.6 billion vs ¥12.5 billion in the same quarter [...]
Read moreKrafton Posts Record First-Half Revenue as PUBG Keeps Delivering
Korean publisher Krafton just closed the first half of 2025 with its best numbers to date. The studio behind PUBG: Battlegrounds reported revenue of KRW 1.54 trillion (about USD 1.18 billion) and operating profit of KRW 703 billion. Both figures mark double-digit growth year-over-year, underscoring how the now-seven-year-old battle-royale continues to bankroll the company while new projects line up for [...]
Read moreKrafton Acquires Eleventh Hour Games for $96 Million, Adding Last Epoch to Its Portfolio
Krafton, the South Korean publisher best known for PUBG: Battlegrounds, is broadening its lineup with the full acquisition of Eleventh Hour Games. The Oregon-based studio launched the action RPG Last Epoch earlier this year and has already moved more than three million copies on PC, an impressive feat in a genre dominated by pillars like Diablo and Path of Exile. [...]
Read moreRiot Games Opens Doors to Sports Betting Sponsors for Esports Tournaments
Riot Games is making a significant change to its approach on sponsorships for its two flagship esports titles, League of Legends and Valorant. The company announced it will now allow official sports betting sponsors for its major esports tournaments, reversing a long-standing policy that kept betting-related advertising out of its broadcasts and events. Other competitive multiplayer games like Counter-Strike 2 [...]
Read moreFortnite Remains Off App Store as Epic Games and Apple Continue Legal Battle
The ongoing feud between Epic Games and Apple over Fortnite’s return to the App Store shows no signs of ending. Last week, Apple reportedly delayed its usual app approval process, forcing Epic to cancel a Fortnite update across all platforms. Now, Apple has doubled down, stating it won’t act on any Fortnite app submissions globally until the Ninth Circuit Court [...]
Read moreNCSoft's PC Games Struggle as Lineage Mobile Generates More Revenue Than Their All PC Games Combined
It's no secret that NCSoft has been struggling over the last few years. Revenues peaked post-COVID in 2022 and have been in steep decline since. 2024 revenues are back below 2017 levels and the company's stock price has been diving, down 71% over the last 5 years. While the transition from primarily PC gaming to mobile games have led to [...]
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