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Doggedly refusing to buy into the current gloomy narrative surrounding the company, Konami has had the audacity to post some very strong quarterly numbers. Profit for the quarter ending June soared 159.9 per cent to 4.28bn, while revenue climbed 5.3 per cent to 51.2bn. Konami’s games arm, Digital Entertainment, also …
Read More »Here’s why Verizon is breaking into eSports
Verizon wants to sell broadband and more to gamers. Verizon is joining other big brands likeCoca-Cola and Red Bullin marketing to the massive eSports audience. The communications giant has partnered with local gaming center and cafe Epic Gaming Lounge to host the EGL Dallas 10K video game tournament Aug. 7-9 …
Read More »Nvidia revenue up 5% thanks to eSports and PC growth
GeForce creator Nvidia today released its financials for the quarter ended July 26, with the firm posting a 5 percent revenue increase, thanks, in part, to the rise of eSports and the continued growth of PC gaming. Nvidiasaw revenue jump from $1.153 billion from $1.103 – a marginal increase on …
Read More »Did a Philippine League of Legends Team Commit Multiple Breaches of Contract?
Wargods.GameX, one of the top League of Legends teams in the Garena Pro Gaming Series (PGS), is currently under fire for allegations of contract breaches with the game publisher’s professional league. Garena Philippines, the country publisher for Riot’s League of Legends, maintains and oversees the PGS. Under the rules of …
Read More »Blizzard registers trademark for "Compete"
Blizzardhas registered a trademark for "Compete", an eSport tournament creation system. Specifically,the trademarkis for "Providing an online non-downloadable Internet-based system application featuring technology enabling users to organize and promote e-sports tournaments, to create and customize tournament brackets and ladders, track tournament progress, maintain related statistics, and post results." Read more …
Read More »Game Digital boosted by eSports as console sales slump
Game Digital, the video games retailer, has said revenues have been held back by a sharp fall in the sale of consoles following the launches of Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Sales in the group’s hardware division were dragged down by prices of consoles falling by around a fifth, although …
Read More »Starbreeze is making a virtual reality John Wick FPS
Lionsgate has announced a partnership with developer Starbreeze for a virtual reality first person shooter based on 2014 action movie John Wick. Starbreeze is to act as publisher for the title, which is in development for ‘multiple’ VR platforms. A ‘teaser’ version will be ready for the launch of Valve’s …
Read More »World of Warcraft’s next expansion is called Legion
The sixth expansion to Blizzard’s MMO powerhouse World of Warcraft has been revealed. It’s called Legion and will feature a brand new continent called The Broken Isles. Levels caps will be upped from 100 to 110. Plus, as players level they will now unlock PvP perks via a new ‘honour …
Read More »Former EA exec Frank Gibeau joins Zynga
Frank Gibeau, an EA veteran of nearly 25 years, has joined mobile gaming company Zynga. The former EA executive VP has been appointed to the publisher’s board of directors.Gibeau left EA in May this yearafter more than two decades with the company. Zynga has the products, the people and the …
Read More »Chinese investors acquire SNK Playmore
The creators of the Neo Geo and series such as Metal Slug and King of Fighters are under new ownership. Siliconera reports that a Chinese firm Ledo Millennium, which was co-formed by Chinese online games company Shunrong Sanqi, has agreed to pay $63.5m to acquire an 81.25 per cent share …
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