Rocket League just debuted a new banning system to make sure it’s a harassment-free place,” creator Psyonix just revealed. This follows the developer’s announcement that Rocket League has just reached an impressive 34m players worldwide. Announced by Rocket League’s community manager Devin Connors in a blog post, the new ban …

Take-Two reported another strong quarter last night, with net revenue for its fiscal Q1 2018 up 34 per cent year-on-year to $418.2m, and net sales up 28 per cent to $384.3m. Digitally-delivered net revenue also grew 56 per cent to $268.2m and digitally-delivered net sales increased 47 per cent to …

Liverpool-based developer and animation studio to get backing for new IP projects

Capcom just published its financial results for the three months ended on June 30th, with net sales reaching 11,746m yen (80.6m) and representing a 7.5 per cent increase compared to the same period last year. The Japanese developer and publisher estimates its revenue will reach 93bn yen (638m) by the …

Yesterday, industry veteran Mike Rose (pictured right) announced his new publishing company, No More Robots, which aims to use a data-driven approach to find new and exciting indie titles to bring to market.  The timing of the announcement meant he was a little too late to join our indie publishing roundtable, …

Ever since the glorious days of the 8-bit era, console gaming has bloomed into a thriving entertainment industry. However, the players who also did their growing up alongside it have led to a massive change in the gaming demographics. Indeed, most console games these days are created with adult audiences …

The theme of this year’s Gamescom is ‘Just play together,’ emphasising one of the most vital parts of today’s worldwide gaming industry. With more ways to play games with family and friends than ever before, this growing trend has been underpinned by a string of upcoming releases, including titles such …

Ubisoft has announced its Q1 sales report for fiscal year 2017-18. Sales were up 45.2 per cent year-on-year between April and June 30th, amounting to €202.1m. That’s just over €30m more than expectations. Of that €202.1m, 94.3 per cent came from back catalogue sales, which equated to €190.4m. A lot …

Dodge Roll Games’ Enter the Gungeon has reached a new milestone. The studio behind the roguelike title announced on Twitter (see below) that Enter the Gungeon has gone platinum” and sold over 1m copies. Published by indie label Devolver Digital, Enter the Gungeon launched to critical praise back in April …

UK sporting retailer Sports Direct has acquired 44m shares in GAME Digital. This means that the company, headed by controversial UK businessman Mike Ashley, now owns over a quarter of the struggling video games specialist. The move has seen GAME’s share price recover a little. It had fallen to as …