Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion on Xbox Live, which came to an end last month, helped the digital portal to a 200 per cent increase in revenues, the platform holder has revealed.
Microsoft has also revealed that it’s pioneering online quiz show title, 1 vs 100, was downloaded a total of 3m times in its 13-week beta period.
For the full story head over to CasualGaming.biz.
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