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Japanese publisher Capcom has posted solid results for the quarter ending June 30th 2012. It reported a 244.4 per cent year-on-year increase in operating income to 2,669m and a 55.8 per cent jump in net sales. Net income for the three months ending June 30th climbed 290.2 per cent to …

The time may have come for developer Stardock to say goodbye to boxed retail releases, the company has stated. Recent digital-only release Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion has crushed” the studio’s previous sales records, selling over 100,000 units. It’s the first game from the developer to skip retail upon …

A jump in both iPad and iPhone sales has lead to a strong quarter for Apple, although its numbers fell short of analyst’s expectations. Revenue hit $35bn for Q3 2012, up from $28.57bn the year before. Analysts had expected Apple to reach over $37bn. Net income climbed from $7.3bn to …

Nintendo has reported a 10,331 million operating loss for the quarter ending June 30th 2012. That’s an improvement over the 93,928 million loss reported in the same period the year before. Net losses reached 17,231 million which, again, is an improvement over the 25,516 million net loss a year before. …

Valve’s business management director has claimed that Steam’s frequent price promotions do not have a negative effect on the sale of full price software. If that’s what we thought was happening, or that’s what we saw happening, we wouldn’t do it,” Jason Holtman told PC Gamer. Actually, all the data …

Platinum Games’ Anarchy Reigns managed only eighth place in its first week in the Japanese software charts. It sold 21,199 units on PS3 and an additional 4,170 on Xbox 360, Andriasang reports. Interestingly, Western-made debutant Ghost Recon: Future Soldier faired better, claiming seventh place with sales of 23,021 units. Pokemon …

We still don’t know if Grand Theft Auto V will make it to retail in time for Christmas, but even Rockstar’s mammoth IP is unlikely to prevent a year of decline in the traditional markets. Venturebeat reports that analysts predict the release of the game could generate in the region …

Sales of the 3DS in America and Europe are not where Nintendo would have hoped, the company has admitted. What we should say first is that while the Nintendo 3DS has a certain degree of sales momentum in Japan, the momentum in the US and Europe is currently weak,” boss …

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has claimed that more than 50 per cent of Japanese hardware sales are taken by 3DS. The platform holder’s CEO defended the handheld’s sales performance during a recent meeting with shareholders, according to VG247. "While the Nintendo 3DS has a certain degree of sales momentum in …

Nintendo’s Pokemon IP has once again flexed its commercial muscle in Japan. Andriasang reports that the game sold 1.619m units in its first two days on sale in the region. That makes it the third best DS launch ever and the first million+ unit seller of the year in the …