Bethesda Softworks will officially be retiring their Bethesda.net launcher and will be moving to Steam in April. The migration process will start in early April with detailed instructions to be given as we move closer to moving day. It’s going to take a bit of work on your part but it shouldn’t be too complicated. “You have plenty of time [...]
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Tencent continues gobble-up smaller studios as the Chinese media and tech giant fully acquires Aaryn Flynn’s Inflexion Studios and their flagship game Nightingale. Both parties have chosen not to disclose the details of the deal. “We want to make sure that the games developed by our internal studios benefit from the support of publishers with leading track records of bringing [...]
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2021 was a good year for Pearl Abyss despite shrinking revenues from its core IPs as the company reveals in their Q4 2021 financial report. Operating revenues for the last fiscal quarter of 2021 amounted to ₩118 billion KRW, or roughly $98.6 million USD, which translates to a 22.4% increase quarter-over-quarter and 11.7% increase year-over-year. Pearly Abyss’ main IPs, Black [...]
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Microsoft’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $69 billion has done wonders for the Call of Duty publisher’s stock prices. ABK’s stock prices went from an all-time high of $103.81 USD in February 2021 to just $57.36 USD in December 2021 amid the workplace scandal that rocked the company and the poor performance of existing IPs. Stock prices have since [...]
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NCSoft has released its Q4 2021 financial report hot on the heels of yesterday’s new game announcements. The company’s revenues are up by 51% compared to Q3 2021 and 35% compared to Q4 2020 with total sales amounting to ₩757.2 billion, or roughly $632.6 million. A big chunk of the total sales was generated by mobile games which saw an [...]
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RuneScape developer Jagex is currently working on an unannounced game as revealed in their recent job listings. Unfortunately, it’s not going to be RuneScape 2 as most of you are probably hoping for but an open world survival crafting game. The game is being built on Unreal Engine 4 and will have both PvE and PvP elements. The studio is [...]
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Nexon reported their Q4 and full year 2021 earnings report earlier this week and while company wide revenues were largely flat year over year at $2.37B USD, the North American business continued to lose money. The division reported $29.5M in revenue and a loss of $6.8M. The division has been reporting yearly losses for over a decade. The vast majority [...]
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Microsoft’s ongoing acquisition of Activision Blizzard has PlayStation players concerned that the company might pull their favorite games from the platform. Microsoft, however, maintains that they will continue to support Activision Blizzard games on Sony’s family of consoles even after the deal pushes through. “To be clear, Microsoft will continue to make Call of Duty and other popular Activision Blizzard [...]
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Last week, Blizzard Entertainment put out a call for developers to work on an unannounced survival game based on a brand new IP. Apparently, the controversial studio is juggling several projects at once as they’re currently looking for a Lead Content Designer for another unannounced game, this time based on an established Blizzard IP. “We are looking for a talented [...]
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ArenaNet founder and former Riot Games developer Jamie Winsor have founded a new fully-remote development studio called One More Game that’s built on a fast-paced freeform approach to development. Among the new studio’s big-name hires include former Guild Wars artist Daniel Dociu who explains their “alpha-driven” mindset in designing and creating concept art. “For an artist, few tasks are as [...]
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