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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.
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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…
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Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its earnings for the first time as a publicly traded company. This met analysts’ expectations. Bookings for the first quarter ended March 31 were…
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Ubisoft launched the sixth season for its Entrepreneurs Lab, with 11 startups taking part in the program for innovation in games and tech.
Led by Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab, the…
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On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, the crew discusses Nintendo’s record earnings report. Reviews editor Mike Minotti talks about his Resident Evil Village review, Nintendo’s new IP, and his thoughts on ligma. Also, more companies are joining E3 2021 and GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb talks about that as well as…
