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Famed developer thought to have met with Japanese publisher

The latest ABC numbers from Future Entertainment show that the publishing company now reaches a higher global audience than ever before. As a whole the company’s publications now reach 20.2m people, a 29 per cent year-on-year increase. The figure includes duplicates, however, gathering together ABCs, unique users, digital subscribers, social …

Possible asset sale still on as US arm continues breakaway strategy

As reported by MCV this morning, j2 Global subsidiary Ziff Davis has acquired IGN Entertainment from owner News Corp. Ziff Davis now houses brands such as 1UP.com, AskMen.com, PCMAG.com, Geek.com, Toolbox.com and UGO.com. Adding IGN positions it as one of the world’s largest digital publishers spanning some 53m monthly users …

Social network aiming to diversify offerings for all markets, says Sean Ryan

Koch Media owned publisher Deep Silver has added another notable title to its ranks – Grasshopper’s Killer Is Dead. The game was detailed last week by creator Suda 51, who described it as a title that picks up where Killer7 and No More Heroes left off”. Deep Silver will publish …

'We were not perfect. We made mistakes, but third-parties had a hand in our failure'

Final Fantasy creator sews up domain for possible new title

It’s not often that you get to see the Activision logo on your iDevice screen. Last night Activision Mobile Publishing released free-to-play title The Bowling Dead onto the Apple App Store. As the name might suggest, the release combines two fan favourites – zombies and bowling. Players have to manage …

Publisher and media group Future has reported normalised operating profit of 6.9m for the year ending September 30th. That’s a 68 per cent year-on-year increase. Group revenues were down three per cent, although Future attributes that to the restructure of tis US business. Net debt comes in at a lower …