It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Well, for Steam subscribers it’s one of the four wonderful times of the year where every other game on their growing library drops their price tags by ridiculous amounts. It's the Steam Winter Sale! Some of the more popular MMOs on sale this season include The Elder Scrolls Online, Conan Exiles, and [...]
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Chris Roberts announced today that Cloud Imperium Games, the studio behind Star Citizen, raised $46M in funding from a private investor valuing his enterprise at $460M. Alongside the fundraising announcement Roberts revealed that Star Citizen's single player title Squadron 42 will be released sometime in the summer of 2020. No word on when the game's persistent universe is set to [...]
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French mobile gaming giant Gameloft further secures their foothold on the casual gaming market with the acquisition of New York-based developer FreshPlanet, the makers of the widely-popular music trivia game SongPop and SongPop 2. “We are excited to welcome FreshPlanet as a part of the Gameloft family and to support them in their journey towards new, even more ambitious projects,” [...]
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Pearl Abyss reported their Q3, 2018 financial results last month and it showed Black Desert Mobile continuing to grow while the PC Black Desert Online shrank. Currently the mobile version of the game generates over 3x as much revenue as the PC version as seen below: Just to put these numbers into more familiar terms, the PC version of Black [...]
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During their Third Quarter investor call last month, Funcom announced that they were working on six new games including the upcoming Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a cooperative online shooter, an open-world multiplayer game, a Halloween game, and two new Conan games. One of the two new Conan Games will be revealed at The Kinda Funny Games Showcase happening [...]
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While Dungeon Fighter Online (released 2005) and MapleStory (also 2005) may be oldies, they're still bringing in the big bucks for Nexon. While DFO is already the highest grossing MMORPG in the world, the game had record revenues this quarter with double digit year over year growth. Korean MapleStory on the other hand also had a strong year with 129% [...]
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NCSoft reported their Q3 2018 earnings report today and as expected, mobile titles continue to dominate with mobile games making up 54% of the company's revenue, which is impressive given how new mobile gaming is for the company. Company wide revenue came in at 403.8B KRW ($357M USD), which is down 7% quarter over quarter and 44% year over year. [...]
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NCSoft has just dropped a number of major announcements at a press event in South Korea one week ahead of the annual G-Star convention. These announcements probably won’t come as a surprise to fans of the studio and their games, especially for Aion and Blade and Soul fans who’ve probably guessed that sequels to their beloved games were in the [...]
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It's been a rough week for Activison Blizzard. First they received an incredible amount of outrage from Diablo fans upon revealing Diablo: Immortal, a mobile Diablo title developed by their Chinese partner Netease, and now they reported weak earnings on Wall Street. Q3 2018 revenues came in at $1.5B, which was down 10% compared to Q3 2017. In addition, the [...]
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How many hours a day did you spend playing video games when you were a kid? If Tencent's new policy is any guide towards China's emerging gaming regulations, the likely answer to that question for future generations will be precisely '2 hours.' Earlier this week Tencent, China's largest gaming company and the owner of international hits like League of Legends, [...]
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