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Take-Two once again saw better than expected results for the quarter ending December 31st. The 2K Games and Rockstar parent firm reports net revenue rising 15 per cent to $476.5m, thanks to GTA V, Grand Theft Auto Online, WWE 2K17, NBA 2K17 and Civilization VI. Meanwhile digital revenue soared 64 …
Read More »InnoGames post record financials after a decade of year-on-year growth
Players managed 600m hours of gameplay on InnoGames titles in 2016
Read More »Physical game sales drive Sega profits for 2016
Sega has released its consolidated results for the nine months ended December 31st 2016, and its sales and profits are both up year-on-year. Net sales rose by 16.6 per cent to 285.7bn (2.05bn) year-on-year, while profits increased by 462.1 per cent to 36.5bn (262m). As for Sega’s Entertainment Contents Business, …
Read More »Milestone and Koch media team up for publishing partnership
Partnership to publish all of Milestone's 2017 titles
Read More »Bird Song – The music of Eagle Flight
With a new kind of reality comes a new challenge in the world of games music. Sean Cleaver speaks to composer Inon Zur about his latest work on Ubisoft’s VR title, Eagle Flight
Read More »Blizzard let players spend World of Warcraft gold on other games
Battle.net credit can be spent on cosmetics in other games or even other Blizzard titles
Read More »FIFA 18 coming to Switch, Moore confirms
EA’s FIFA title for the Nintendo Switch will be FIFA 18, EA’s chief competition officer Peter Moore has confirmed. Speaking to GameReactor at a FIFA event in Paris this weekend, Moore said that the custom-built Switch title will indeed be the next entry in EA’s long-running football franchise rather than …
Read More »Playground Games to build new team to develop non-racing title
Forza Horizon 3 developer Playground Games has said it plans to build a new team in its hometown of Leamington Spa in order to work on a new, non-racing title, MCV’s sister site Develop has revealed. "One of the things we did recently, which was beforeHorizoncame out was really look …
Read More »Overwatch director speaks out over mouse and keyboard on console
Jeff Kaplan speaks out over console conversion kits
Read More »16 European PES players head to FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou to compete for a spot at worlds
16 of the best European PES players will head to FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium to compete for one of four spaces at the PES League Final. The competition will take place on February 11th at the iconic stadium, with the best players from the qualifiers battling it out in …
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