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EA’s Q3 financials have revealed the extent to which the smartphone market has shifted from full price to freemium and microtransaction titles. Overall mobile grew 18 per cent to $120m for EA for the quarter ending June 30th, with smartphone and tablets accounting for 90 per cent of that. Within …
Read More »EA wants to release Star Wars: Battlefront around the same time as Star Wars VII
Well over a year away – that appears to be your best case scenario for the release of EA’s Star Wars Battlefront. What we’re building is more rooted in the traditional Star Wars universe and not so much necessarily linked to the movies being made. And that’s just because we …
Read More »ANALYSIS: European gamers in profile
Research firm Ipsos MediaCT has taken a look at who is playing video games and how they are doing it for the first quarter of 2014 in its latest Gametrack study. The data shows that France is the biggest nation of gamers out of those investigated. 58 per cent of …
Read More »iPhone and iPad sales miss expectations
Apple ‘s Q3 report has seen it beat earnings expectations but fall short of predicted iPhone and iPad sales. While the firm beat its earnings expectations, with its profit rising to $7.7bn its iPhone sales came in below the 37m expectation at 35.2m. This is, however, 13 per cent higher …
Read More »EA profits soar 50%
EA in its last quarter generated 51 per cent more profit year-on-year on the back of impressive sales across its console and mobile operations. Net GAAP income rose to $335m (196.5m) for the quarter ending June 30th, up from $222m the year prior.Revenues also grew from $949m to $1.2bn during …
Read More »No Dark Souls 2 season pass on Xbox 360
Confusion has surrounded yesterday’s release of the Dark Souls 2 Crown Trilogy DLC. The first part of the trio, The Crown of the Sunken King, was released on PC and Xbox 360 yesterday with a PS3 release due to follow today. However, while a 19.99 season pass is available on …
Read More »VIDEO: 4.5m views and counting for animated League of Legends short
A new League of Legends video called A New Dawn has racked up close to 5m views in just a single day. It features a number of characters from the hit MOBA using powers that players of the game will recognise. The video’s official description states: Day breaks over a …
Read More »EA profits jump 51% year-on-year
Battlefield Hardline and Dragon Age: Inquisition delayed
Read More »Areal Kickstarter suspended, is now hunting for PayPal contributions
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has suspended funding for the controversial STALKER successor Areal. Things appeared to be going wrong for developer West Games earlier this week when a string of bizarre events and unusual pledges mysteriously propelled it towards its funding goal. Our Kickstarter was suspended without any warning,” the studio …
Read More »First Hearthstone: Curse of Naxxramas DLC available now on PC and iOS
Blizzard has at long last released its single player DLC for card battling title Hearthstone. The first of a planned five parts of Curse of Naxxramas can be downloaded now. It contains a series of boss fights, new cards and a new board. The remaining releases will be released at …
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