Tag Archives: revenue

2016 will see first fruits of developer's publishing arm and VR initiative hit its stride

Two-thirds of companies have less than 50 employees

German developer looking to hire 50 new staff this year as it prepares for multiple new releases

Single-use item that removes ads from a game is brought by more than half of players, but only contributes one per cent of income

Global sales of the PS4 may well be far ahead of Xbox One, but today’s Ubisoft financial report reveals that Microsoft users are spending more. VentureBeat reports that for every $1 spent by the average PS4 owner on Ubisoft products in Q3, Xbox One owners spent $1.25. This higher average …

The record $5.9bnbuy-outby Activision was just about the only positive number for King last year. The Candy Crush studio has revealed its latest financials, which show that annual profit for 2015 dropped by a tenth to land at $517 million. Meanwhile, revenues were down 12 per cent to $2 billion. …

South Korean mobile studio saw income rise by more than a third last year

Puzzle game sells 100,000 units in seven days, despite price and piracy controversy

Nintendo’s net profit for the nine months ending December 31st slumped 31.9 per cent year-on-year to 40.55bn. Net sales fell 3.9 per cent to 425.66bn. However, Nintendo has now already hit its full year net profit target of 35bn. Operating income for the period was up 34.4 per cent at …

Games sold over Steam generated over $3.5bn last year, according to analytics site Steam Spy. The outlet – run by one Sergey Galyonkin – claims that 3,000 new games were released on the platform (up from 1,900 in 2014), and the number of concurrent users reached a whopping 12 million …