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Grand Theft Auto V and the connected world of GTA Online continue to drive revenue growth for developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two Interactive. Rockstar has now shipped 145 million copies of GTA V. At the same time, GTA Online surpassed its previous record number of active players during Take-Two’s fiscal fourth…
EA will crowdfund the prize pool for Apex Legends Global Series Championship to as much as $3M
May 18, 2021
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Electronic Arts said it will tap players to crowdfund the prize pool for the Apex Legends Global Series Championship to as much as $3 million.
The prize pool will rise from $1 million based on fan purchases of…
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When the pandemic struck last spring, many game companies halted their internship programs. But Roblox quickly switched its program online and kept it going. Now it’s doing the same thing this summer with an…
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French megapublisher Ubisoft reported its earnings yesterday, and chief financial officer Frederick Duguet gave some insight into how the company creates value for its shareholders. During a conference call with investors, Duguet said that releasing three-to-four annual blockbusters is not “a proper indication of [Ubisoft’s]…
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Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected earnings today for the fourth-fiscal quarter ended March 31, as live operations and original titles carried it through a relatively quiet quarter.
The Redwood City…
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Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson said that he believes the next Battlefield game coming later this year to the consoles and PC will be “spectacular.”
EA now has multiple studios working on Battlefield —…
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Adopt Me is the most popular game inside the user-generated content platform Roblox. Now the creators of Adopt Me are starting their own studio.
Uplift Games is a remote-first studio with 40 employees. It will continue to work on Adopt Me, but the developer is also building new, unannounced projects.
Adopt Me launched in 2017. It is…
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Ubisoft has released its financial report for 2020-21 — the period ending on March 31, 2021 — posting net bookings of $2.27 billion (€2.24 billion). That is up a massive 46.1% compared to the previous…
EA Play digital event set for July 22
May 11, 2021
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Electronic Arts announced today that it will broadcast EA Play event on July 22.
This is essentially EA’s E3-without-E3 show. The publisher has been doing its own thing separate from the big trade show in recent…
Non-electronic sports viewership grows on Twitch
May 11, 2021
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The world has a lot more sports-related content than it can fit onto ESPN, Fox Sports, and AM Radio. And Twitch is helping to pick up that slack. The sports category is growing quickly following its debut in July. That includes nearing 11 million hours watched in April, according to data from Rainmaker.gg.
“Twitch has been dabbling in…
