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Skylanders is Activision’s biggest ever ‘new IP’ and ‘potentially a $1bn franchise.’ The new kids property – which is technically part of the Spyro franchise, but we’ll gloss over that – was 2011’s No.1 kids property, according to the publisher. It says that the toys alone has sold more than …
Read More »UK leads digital and physical game sales
NDP data shows that UK consumers buy more video games – both boxed and downloadable – than those in France, Germany in the US. The research group reported that the split between physical and digital sales in Germany is nearly equal, although France is dominated by boxed sales. The UK …
Read More »What’s Out Today? w/e February 10th, 2012
There’s a healthy spate of new releases on shelves this week, including supernatural shooters, surreal puzzle games and sprawling RPGs. 2K Games’ The Darkness II follows up the success of the 2007 FPS, once again putting players in the shoes of Jackie Estacado, who takes on demons with both ordinary …
Read More »Activision Blizzard’s revenue hits $4.7bn
Activision Blizzard has posted record breaking revenue of $4.76bn for the financial year. $1.6bn of this was generated from digital markets. That’s 34 per cent of the company’s total revenues. The $4.76bn is well ahead of Activision’s projections (almost $800m more) and is up over the previous year’s $4.45bn. Net …
Read More »Analyst forecasts Zynga Q4 revenues above $335m
Michael Pachter predicts strong growth for social gaming company
Read More »ShopTo profits rocket 254%
Online indie ShopTo.net has seen its profit leap 254 per cent for the six months ending January 31st. The company says it has ‘defied’ the slowdown seen in games by posting record results. Its market share in hardware also leapt during the period, with sales of consoles accounting for 8m …
Read More »UKIE plans to make UK crowd funding legal
Industry trade body UKIE will publish a report next week outlining how to make crowd funding legal for UK games firms. It wants to change legislation so that publishers and other games companies can receive money from large numbers of individuals, in order to fund new projects. The news comes …
Read More »Dena ‘axes 30 workers’ at Ngmoco
Cut backs come after aggressive international expansion
Read More »Intel webinar: how to make money from HTML5
Ask the Intel experts on web apps at this free online event
Read More »OPINION: GAME lives to fight another day
Without question a challenging road lies ahead of GAME. But at least for now its staff – whether those at the Basingstoke HQ or at its 600 stores across the UK – can breathe a sigh of relief. The uncertainty, at least, is gone for now. Of course there’s still …
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