Publishing

THQ has announced financial results from its fiscal 2012 and Q4 2012. For Q4 total sales for the company reached $184.2m, up from $124.2m during the same period last year. Net losses during the fourth quarter increased to $53.2m from $44.1m last year. Full FY 2012 results show total sales …

French publishing giant Ubisoft has posted full-year profits of €37.3m (29.7m) for the twelve months ended March 31st, 2012. The company racked up€1.06bn (845m)in sales, up from the €1.04bn (828m) taken in the previous financial year. Its current operating income came in at €56m (44.6m). Ubisoft attributed its success to …

Earthworm Jim creator and Gaikai visionary David Perry is to be honoured with the Development Legend award at the July 11th Develop Industry Excellence Awards. Perry will receive the award for the impact he has made on the games industry during his three decades in the business. Having previously created …

Having irked some consumers with its on-disc DLC policies with Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom has said it is re-evaluating” its additional content policies. The publisher suffered a backlash of sorts when it transpired that premium DLC for the cross-brand fighter was already included on the disc, with consumers paying …

Publishing giant Activision has paid a portion of its employees $42 million in long-delayed royalty payments for Modern Warfare 2, as part of a wider lawsuit between the company and development staff. The lost bonuses were initially due after the release of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, which broke …

The world of PC gaming was jubilant last night as Blizzard’s Diablo III finally hit the High Street… only for the developer’s servers to crash almost immediately. And is there anything more indicative of modern PC gaming than owners of a high-profile single player release being unable to play their …

Former Microsoft executive Robbie Bach has said that mistakes made by the Sony management in the transition between PS2 and PS3 played a big part in the tremendous success of Xbox 360. Some of the success of Xbox was due to the fact that Sony did some really not so …

Zynga throws a wildcard in unconfirmed talent aquisition

'Fastest selling XBLA game ever', says Microsoft

Partnership with Wargaming.net seals operating rights in China for all current games