Game industry business news

YouTube star PewDiePie continues to ascend to new financial heights, doubling his earnings in the last year. A report from Swedish newspaper Expressen, as spotted by Neogaf and reported by Destructoid, says that Felix Kjellberg’s company PewDiePie Productions made in excess of $7.45m in 2014. Last year it was reported …

Overall studio headcount increased by ten per cent

The Caped Crusader is once again perched on top of the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. Batman: Arkham Knight manages this in spite of a 74 per cent decrease in sales week-on-week. And it continues to be a good few weeks for Warner Bros – not only does it have the …

Online retailer Amazon is to celebrate its 20th birthday on July 15th with what it promises to be a massive sale. Called ‘Prime Day’, the promotion is described as a global shopping event” and will apparently have more deals than Black Friday”. However, the catch is that it will only …

South Africa’s games industry is increasingly dominated by digital titles from other countries – but, despite this, the local market is growing. Local games organisation Make Games South Africa (MGSA) estimates that South Africa consumers spend 2.2 billion Rand (0.1bn) on games each year, primarily on mobile. Console is the …

Telltale has provided the first look at its episodic collaboration with Mojang, Minecraft: Story Mode. The studio peeled back the curtain on their latest crossover effort at MineCon 2015 this past weekend in London. The debut trailer introduces the game’s protagonist Jesse, voiced by comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, along …

Microsoft-owned studio Mojang has announced Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition for release later this year. The unveiling of the latest edition of the hit sandbox title came via MineCon 2015 in London over the past weekend, where thedeveloper confirmeda beta of the Windows 10 version will launch on July 29th– the …

Club Nintendo has officially shut down in North America, with plans to discontinue Nintendo’s rewards program later this year in Europe, Japan and Australia. The Club Nintendo website has been updated with an image of a Mario, hat in hand and head bowed in recognition of the closure. "Club Nintendo …

The idea of pre-owned digital games has been flying around for a while, and retailer GameStop still hopes to one day get the idea off the ground. "It’s still an opportunity that’s out there," GameStop merchandising director Eric Bright told GameSpot during a meeting at E3 last month. "I think …

A Canadian gamer spent the day posing as a developer in the offices of Warframe developer Digital Extremes – and discovered details about an unannounced title in the process. Kotaku has verified the legitimacy of claims made on Reddit (which have since been deleted) in which a user named UndercoverLegend …