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Activision Blizzard has posted full year net revenue of $4.4bn thanks to the success of four key franchises. The publisher says that multiplayer shooter Destiny and card game Hearthstone between them raked in $850m over the last financial year. Bungie’s shooter now has over 16m registered players while the World …

Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta participants played 20m matches over 2.5m hours, Microsoft has revealed as part of an infographic on the event. The image created by developer 343 Industries (enlarged below) states those 20m matches amounted to 290 years worth of gameplay and 181m confirmed kills. We’re thrilled with …

The Pokmon Company has announced that its 2015 Pokmon World Championships will offer $2m in prizes. Organizers have detailed locations and dates for the US Pokmon Winter Regional Championship tournaments. The US regional tourneys take place later this month at the following locations: St. Louis, MO: February 14–15 – St. …

The Pokémon Company has announced that its 2015 Pokémon World Championships will offer $2m in prizes. Organizers have detailed locations and dates for the US Pokémon Winter Regional Championship tournaments. The US regional tourneys take place later this month at the following locations: St. Louis, MO: February 14-15 – St. …

Ubisoft has removed the beta label from its free-to-play dungeon crawler The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot. The game officially entered open beta just under a year ago, and though the publisher has pushed it through to official release, it still has plans to regularly release updates with new features …

Cattanach started in the games industry as the project manager at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in the creative services group back in 2008. Her background includes a Master’s in business and publishing and experience in the children’s book and toy industry at companies such as Penguin, BBC and Hasbro. My …

Kathrin Strangfeld has been a major part in Sony’s recent console developments, working as senior business development manager and launching over 80 different video services in over 30 SCEE terriotires. We don’t let just everyone come on board; we only want the best or most interesting content for our users …

A new subscription service for retro gamers that follows the successful Loot Crate formula has been unveiled. It’s called My Retro Game Box. Subscribers will each receive a random selection of retro games that are theirs to keep. The supported formats are NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Colour, …

Mobile firm hopes to follow success of Kim Kardashian smash hit

Hot on the heels of its successful venture with Kim Kardashian, Glu Mobile is eying a second celebrity endorsed title. Reuters reports that the company has teamed up with Katy Perry for a game featuring her likeness and voice. Such is the success of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood that Glu posted …