Nintendo has accepted Microsoft’s offer to keep the Call of Duty franchise on Nintendo devices for the next ten years. Readers will remember that Microsoft made the offer to both Sony and Nintendo last fall in hopes of assuaging anti-trust and monopoly concerns brought forth by various regulatory bodies. “Microsoft and Nintendo have now negotiated and signed a binding 10-year [...]
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Bungie has won yet another multi-million dollar legal battle against Destiny 2 cheat makers. Well, partly won anyway. The studio has just been awarded $4.3 million in damages and fees as part of a string of lawsuits against AimJunkies and its parent company Phoenix Digital. The judge presiding over the arbitration process found the cheat maker, specifically one of its [...]
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The past couple of months have been rough on Ubisoft as the company reports a massive drop in its net bookings for the third quarter of its 2022-2023 fiscal year. While the company was able to accrue a total of €1.5 billion in year-to-date sales, its net bookings for back catalog games over the same period fell by 27%, or [...]
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Roblox Corporation has managed to rake in a whopping $2 billion in revenue for the fiscal year of 2022 but it also reported roughly $1 billion in net losses. The company’s Q4 2022 financial report shows a 2% increase in its quarterly revenue compared to the same period last year at $579 million, and a 16% increase in its annual [...]
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Enad Global 7 has released its latest quarterly investor report which shows steady growth for the Swedish video game holding company as a whole and its subsidiary Daybreak Game Studios. According to the report, the Swedish video game holding company saw a 12% increase in its net revenue quarter-over-quarter at SEK 559 million (roughly $54 million). Its annual net revenue [...]
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Bethesda Softworks is running a massive Steam sale in partnership with GameBillet and is currently offering up to 80% off on an extensive list of games across multiple franchises, including Dishonored, Doom, Fallout, Quake, Prey, The Elder Scrolls, Wolfenstein, and more. It’s worth checking out if you’re just getting around to playing a particular series or if you’re simply looking [...]
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Square Enix might be cutting costs by weeding out underperforming games but its definitely not skimping on this year’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival. Considering that this is the first time in two years that the event will be held in-person, the publisher hopes to bring in its largest audience ever and will be moving up from the hotel ballrooms [...]
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Embracer Group has published its Q3 2023 financial report which shows relatively good performance across its portfolio of games. The highlight of the report, however, is confirmation that its subsidiaries are working on not one, not two, but five Lord of the Rings titles following its acquisition of Middle-Earth Enterprises last year. The Swedish video game holding company previously announced [...]
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Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo might not be showing up at E3 this year but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be a big-name publisher attending the event. Ubisoft announced that it will attending the gaming convention if it pushes through. “If E3 happens, we will be there and we will have a lot of things to show,” said Ubisoft CEO [...]
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With everything that Activision Blizzard has gone through over the past two years, it’s a wonder that Bobby Kotick has still managed to hold on to his position as the company’s CEO, even amidst accusations of attempted murder. Microsoft’s impending and highly controversial acquisition of the company, however, might just be what knocks him off his lofty and apparently untouchable [...]
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