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Square Enix has posted a full fiscal year profit of 9.2 billion Japanese Yen ($88.5 million) for the 12 months to March 31st, 2008 – down 20.9 per cent year-on-year. Sales also fell in the period, down 9.8 per cent to 147.5 billion Yen ($1.42 billion), with declining revenues most …
Read More »Sell, sell, sell
Ubisoft has been busy and you don’t have to look very hard to find the evidence. When Assassins’s Creed was released last year, it became the fastest-selling new IP in five year. And with a 36 per cent rise in profits in the last financial year, plus the release of …
Read More »Nintendo teams up with McDonalds
Nintendo Japan has struck a deal with McDonalds for a browser branded with the restaurant’s logo available to DS users. The application connects to a page of McDonald’s news and also has links to current McDonald’s promotions and nutritional information. According to Siliconera, Nintendo will offer DS demos and a …
Read More »Age Of Conan tempts in 400,000 gamers
Funcom-developed MMO Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has attracted over 400,000 gamers online – with almost half coming from the North American market. Funcom also reported substantial traffic to the Age of Conan websites, with more than 2.2 million unique visitors during the last ten days. The initial sales and …
Read More »Wii Fit topples GTA IV in Spain
Wii Fit has overtaken the PS3 version of Rockstar’s GTA IV in the Spanish entertainment software chart. The Rockstar title slips to second in its third week on the chart, with the 360 version of the title dropping down to fifth. However, GTA still rules the roost elsewhere across Europe. …
Read More »Popcorn Arcade expands into US
Developer-cum-publisher Data Design Interactive has opened a new US office in Sarasota, Florida. The studio will operate as a separate US registered company. The firm says the HQ can ‘provide the correct creative atmosphere required to work effectively on today’s demanding Next-Gen projects’ – including PS3 and Xbox 360 titles. …
Read More »Mandalay to buy Zoo Games
The company formerly known as Zoo Digital Publishing is set to get a new parent, following the buyout of GreenScreen Interactive by Los Angeles-based Mandalay Media. The announcement of the deal comes just one month after New York-based GreenScreen snapped up Zoo and Destination Software – merging the two companies …
Read More »ID pulls out of the ESA
Doom developer id Software has left the Entertainment Software Association, joining the recent departures of Activision, Vivendi, and LucasArts. A representative from the company told Next-Gen.biz that it had opted to not renew its membership with the ESA, which organises the E3 expo. Id declined to comment further. In an …
Read More »EA: Casual market worth $13.5bn by 2010
The boss of EA’s Casual Entertainment division Kathy Vrabeck has said that she expects the total global casual games market to be worth around $13.5 billion in the next couple of years”. In a candid Q&A session – published on MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz – Vrabeck added that her department …
Read More »COMMENT: Working together, giving together
As the ESC held its successful Golf and Spa Day (raising over 20,000 in the process), a new charity, GamesAid, was announced. GamesAid is setting out to offer a new level of choice for participants at all levels and is happy to live alongside any ‘official’ industry charity. Its arrival …
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