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Landmark figure compares to the combined populations of Germany, Belarus and Sweden

Games on smart devices account for more than 75 per cent of the company's revenue

Secret World developer Funcom was suspended from the Oslo Stock Exchange at 9am today. The troubled company was charged with "suspicion of infringement of the provisions of the Securities Trading Act with regards to the financial information given to the market regarding The Secret World from August 2011 until the …

Board members also take 20 to 30 per cent cut as company fights falling revenues

Studio attributes its success to its mobile titles, such as Big Fish Casino

Struggling Wii U and lower-than-expected 3DS sales spell rough year for platform holder

But losses deepen to $308m despite new-gen push and growing digital revenues

Nintendo is snubbing the chance to earn nearly $3bn in the next seven years by not bringing its IP to smartphones. That’s according to a piece entitled Nintendo’s $2.7bn mobile games opportunity that’s never going to happen” by SuperData Research. By all accounts, the notoriously proprietary-only publisher and device maker …

Full game digital downloads on PS4 and Xbox One are a sector that is of particular interest for EA, the publisher has said. Speaking to investors, COO Peter Moore has suggested their sales are likely to increase once the launch window has passed, although conceded that meaningful data won’t be …

EA has revealed that the software attach ratio (the number of games bought per console sold) for Xbox One is down compared to Xbox 360. PS4, however, is tracking ahead of PS3. I’m actually pretty bullish on what I’m seeing so far,” EA COO Peter Moore told investors last night, …