The analytics company Newzoo has finalized the results for the global video game market in 2023. They calculated that the market earned $183.9 billion last year. This is slightly below the lowered November forecast of $184 billion, while initially, analysts had predicted revenue of $187.7 billion.
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All about the financial side of the games industry. Financial reports of public companies. Reports on the financial successes and failures of video games. Data on installs and revenues.
Australian gambling giant Aristocrat has launched a strategic analysis of its portfolio of mobile casual and midcore games. It is possible that following the results of the audit, he may sell Plarium and Big Fish Games (but not Big Fish Social Casino) or their assets.
Take-Two Interactive summed up the results of the financial year ended March 31, 2024. She talked about the strong growth in losses and called the release window GTA VI.
Take-Two has just announced its financial results for the 12 months ended March 31, 2024. The company experienced a huge increase in net loss, but remains confident in its game development pipeline and the upcoming GTA IV launch.
Another’s Crab Treasure, a charming take on the Soulslike genre, has proven to be a huge success for small studio Aggro Crab. Here are some numbers for another indie success of 2024.
Ubisoft has published its financial report for FY24 ended March 31, 2024. The French company posted strong revenue and profit growth, while continuing its cost-cutting program.
Ubisoft has released a report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. Below is the main part of the document.
The 2022 reboot of the Saints Row series was far from being a commercial success for Embracer, especially given its $100 million budget. According to new information, the game has sold less than 2 million copies.
Following the publication of Sony’s FY23 report, Niko Partners director of research and insights Daniel Ahmad has shared more data about the company’s gaming business and the sales of PlayStation 5 consoles.
Tencent has published a report for the first quarter of 2024. The Chinese holding company as a whole showed excellent results in terms of revenue and profit, but everything was not smooth for the gaming division.
In January-March 2024, the PlayStation 5 consoles sold significantly better than the Xbox Series, according to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad.
During the presentation of the financial report to investors, Sony announced that Helldivers 2 surpassed all other games published by it in terms of the number of copies sold in the three months since its release.
Sony has released a report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. We have chosen the main thing about the results of the company's gaming division.
The game Little Kitty, Big City about the adventures of a kitten in a big city has become another indie hit. The developers of Double Dagger Studio announced that it had crossed the milestone of 100,000 copies sold 48 hours after release.
Square Enix has published a report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.
KRAFTON has record quarterly revenue. 60% were on mobile
· 10 days agoAnother financial report was published by the South Korean company KRAFTON. She summed up the results of the first quarter of 2024.
G5 Entertainment has published a financial report for January-March 2024. The company's revenue and profit continued to decline, but its G5 Store performed well.
Electronic Arts (EA) has reported for fiscal year 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024.
Nintendo has released its financial report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024. Despite growth in all key metrics, sales of Switch consoles continued to gradually decline. This led the Japanese company to lower its financial outlook for FY25.
In the first three months of 2024, Wargaming paid taxes in Lithuania in the amount of 2.97 million euros, the dev portal reports.by with reference to the data of the Lithuanian tax Inspectorate. This is 42.8% less than last year.
Nintendo has published a report for fiscal year 2024, which ended on March 31, 2024. We have chosen the main thing from it.
Polish studio Donkey Crew announced that Bellwright was bought 150 thousand times. The game achieved this result in 12 days: it was released in early access on Steam on April 23, 2024.
The developers of soulslike about the hermit crab Another Crab’s Treasure announced that the initial sales and reception of the game exceeded their wildest expectations.
The analytical company InvestGame has published a report on gaming transactions for the first quarter of 2024: we are talking about private investments, M&A and public offerings. According to the report, investors remain cautious, but there are signs of improvement in the market situation.
Microsoft has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal 2024 (January-March 2024). According to him, Activision Blizzard helped the gaming division of the corporation achieve impressive revenue growth.
Metacore closed 2023 with an operating loss of 5.6 million euros. This was announced in an interview with MobileGamer by Mika Tammenkoski, CEO of the Finnish studio.
Indie studio PlayWithFurcifer and publisher IndieArk spoke with gaming expert Simon Carless. They revealed the statistics of the PvP autobatcher Backpack Battles and told how the game managed to succeed.
The Swedish company Paradox Interactive has released a financial report for the first quarter of 2024, which ended on March 31. We have chosen the main thing.
The Games Workshop company, which owns the rights to the Warhammer universe, announced that financial director Rachel Tongue sold 7.5 thousand shares owned by her for 711.7 thousand pounds, or about 885 thousand dollars. She got rid of the shares shortly after a scandal broke out in the Warhammer 40,000 community over changes to Laura.
tinyBuild has published a financial report for 2023. Its revenue was much lower than in 2022. The company also failed to make an operating profit.
tinyBuild has released its report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The company saw declines in all major business metrics, while sticking to its new long-term strategy aimed at improving its operations.
The new Moon Studios game has become one of the highest-grossing projects on Steam over the past week. No Rest for the Wicked started from the fifth place in the Steam sales chart, taking into account free games. If you exclude them, then she will be in third place.
Gas Station Simulator has reached a new milestone. Polish developer DRAGO entertainment has revealed that the game has generated over $10 million in revenue on Steam alone since its launch in September 2021.
French publisher PulluP Entertainment (formerly Focus Entertainment) summed up the financial year ended March 31, 2024. We have selected the main thing from the report.
Fallout 4 topped the chart of the best-selling games in Europe in the last week, GamesIndustry reports, citing data from the GSD analytical platform. She managed to do this thanks to the premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts.
Devolver Digital has published a financial report for 2023. The company is still not making a profit, but its losses have decreased sevenfold.
The indie horror about the game of "Russian roulette" Buckshot Roulette took two weeks to sell a million copies on Steam. This was announced by its developer Mike Klubnika and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX.
The British publisher Team17 has published a financial report for last year. We have chosen the main thing.
On August 10, 2022, the Singapore-based Habby company sent a mobile action bagel to the global release Survivor.io in the spirit of Vampire Survivors. Sensor Tower analysts estimated that since that moment, the project has earned more than $ 500 million from the IAP.
The popularity of the Fallout series has also spurred revenue growth for the mobile version of Fallout Shelter. According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, thanks to the premiere of the TV show, the daily revenue of the game in the App Store and Google Play increased fourfold.
The UK gaming market continues to grow, according to a report by the UKIE trade organization.
The German GAME Association has published a report on the state of the German gaming market over the past year. We have chosen the main thing.
On April 9, NetEase's share price rose 4.1% to HK$157.5 (US$20) apiece. Shareholders have reacted positively to rumors that NetEase has agreed to re-publish Blizzard Entertainment games in China.
Released in honor of the first of April, the cooperative horror Content Warning is selling great. The game debuted from fifth place on the chart of the highest-grossing games on Steam, ahead of PUBG in weekly sales: BATTLEGROUNDS, Dragon's Dogma 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.
The South Korean studio Shift Up summed up the financial results of 2023. She reported a sharp increase in income.
Also among the leaders are games with mixed reality support and simulators," the report of the agency company Curran Games Agency says.
Capcom announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 has crossed the 2.5 million copies sold milestone in less than two weeks: the role-playing game was released on March 22.
In April, as part of the WN Academy educational project, a course dedicated to business sales in the gaming industry is being launched. The course is taught by Yulia Lebedeva, COO and partner of WN Media Group.
CD PROJEKT has published a financial report for the past year. The Polish gaming giant is showing excellent performance both in terms of revenue and profit. The report also announced the revenue of the Cyberpunk 2077 franchise for the entire period of operation and gave an update on the company's future line of projects.
The French company DON'T NOD has released a preliminary financial report for 2023. We share the main thing from it.
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There is little talk about games in the Telegram messenger. We decided to fix the situation by talking with Daria Novikova, product director at PlayDeck startup. The latter launched a gaming marketplace for Telegram. In a conversation with Daria, we touched on topics such as user engagement, earnings from leading projects, monetization and, of course, PlayDeck itself.