PS4 Becomes Second Best-selling Console Ever; Sony is Disappointed
Sony revealed a financial report, according to which PS4 became the second best-selling home console in history. PS2 is still in the first place. The Japanese company expected better results.
Tech
Krzysztof Kaluzinski
October 30, 2019
GreedFall and A Plague Tale Innocence With Very Good Results
Focus Home Interactive boasted of its good financial results. Success was achieved mainly thanks to the successful launches of A Plague Tale: Innocence and GreedFall.
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Adrian Werner
October 25, 2019
The Division 2 and Breakpoint Flop; Ubisoft Delays New Games
At a closed press conference, Ubisoft informed about the delay of the upcoming AAA titles, including Watch Dogs Legion. The reasons for this are the unsatisfactory sales results of Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and the reduction of financial targets for this year.
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Paul Wozniak
October 25, 2019
Xbox One Consoles are Earning Less and Less Money for Microsoft
Microsoft's financial report contained information about a significant drop in revenues from the gaming division. The decreasing interest in the company's hardware is responsible for this, but games and services are doing well.
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Adrian Werner
October 24, 2019
CP 2077 Will Break the Bank? CD Project RED High on Bloomberg's List
Bloomberg Agency has published a ranking of companies worthy of investors' attention in 2020. The biggest winner was CD Projekt RED. Analysts predict that in the release year alone, the sales of Cyberpunk 2077 may reach 20 million copies.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 23, 2019
Tinder Earns More Than YouTube and Netflix
Tinder, a dating app that enables you to meet new people without leaving your home, has been promoted to the name of the most profitable application on iOS and Android. Giants like Netflix and YouTube were left behind.
Tech
October 11, 2019
PUBG Mobile - the Most Profitable Mobile Game of Q3 2019
SensorTower published information on mobile game revenues in the third quarter of this year. The game market for mobile devices has grown compared to the previous year, and the players are increasingly willing to spend money on improvements or cosmetic items.
video games
Paul Wozniak
October 11, 2019
Global Revenues From Digital Distribution; Pokemon GO With The Best Month Since Launch
The latest report of SuperData group brings information on global revenues generated by digital distribution in August, this year on all hardware platforms. The most successful mobile game was Pokemon GO, which had the most profitable month since its launch in 2016.
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Michael Kulakowski
September 22, 2019
Minecraft is Second Biggest Hit of August in the USA
According to the NPD group's ranking, in August the US market was conquered by Madden NFL 20 and Minecraft. The strategy game Age of Wonders: Planetfall also made a very successful debut. On the other hand, Nintendo Switch was the best among consoles.
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Adrian Werner
September 14, 2019
No More Robots CEO: Indie Games on PC get Cheaper and Sales are Falling
Independent titles are selling worse and worse on PC and are getting cheaper, which makes them earn less and less. This is what Mike Rose, No More Robots' CEO, said in his analysis. He sees a chance for improvement in this situation in the „right” pricing of games, among other things.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
September 10, 2019
The Witcher 3 Sales Better Than Last Year
CD Projekt is proud to have sold more copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in the first six months of this year than in the first half of 2018.
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Adrian Werner
August 30, 2019
Roblox Revenues Rising; New Features on the Way
The devs of Roblox announced the introduction of a number of novelties to their game to improve the work of home-grown designers. We're talking about improved lighting, new terraing textures and moving Roblox Studio app to the cloud.
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Christian Pieniazek
August 13, 2019
Activision Blizzard Plans New IPs and Remasters
Activision Blizzard has published its financial statements for the second quarter of 2019. The company also took the opportunity to reveal that it is working not only on the return of the next iconic series, but also on completely new projects.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 9, 2019
Microtransactions in Black Ops 4 More Profitable Than in CoD: WWII
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 microtransaction system generates noticeably higher revenues than the one featured in CoD: WWII. The latest installment of the series is also more popular and attracts players for much longer.
video games
Bart Swiatek
August 9, 2019
Great Results of Take-Two Interactive
The financial report of Take-Two Interactive for the previous quarter has been published. The publisher achieved impressive revenues, which is mainly due to microtransactions in Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online.
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Adrian Werner
August 6, 2019
Unofficial: Ninja Got $50 Million for Abandoning Twitch
Tom Warren, editor of The Verge, announced through Twitter that Microsoft had paid around $50 million to a streamer about the Ninja nickname for switching from Twitch to Mixer. However, these are not official reports.
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Konrad Serafinski
August 4, 2019
Games as Services and Digital Sales are the Source of EA's Success
Electronic Arts is increasingly relying on digital sources of revenue. In the last quarter, the share of box sales amounted to less than 14%. We also found out how many gamers play Apex Legends every week.
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Adrian Werner
July 31, 2019
The Sims 4 Add-ons are Gaining Popularity
In the last quarter the player base of The Sims 4 has increased by 7 million people. Expansions for the aforementioned game were also downloaded much more frequently. The latest expansion, Island Living, is one of the most popular DLCs since the release of the game.
video games
Bart Swiatek
July 31, 2019
Almost Half of Nintendo Switch Owners Bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Nintendo has released its financial statements for the past quarter. We also got to know the biggest bestsellers on Nintendo Switch. At the top of this list was Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
video games
Adrian Werner
July 30, 2019
100 Million Copies of PS4 Sold; Sony Breaks a Record
Sony has presented its latest financial report. The company has sold a total of 100 million PlayStation 4 units, making the PS4 the fastest console ever to reach this goal.
Tech
Konrad Serafinski
July 30, 2019