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NCsoft Q4 2022: Guild Wars 2 had a great 2022, Throne & Liberty is still launching by summer

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There's good news and bad news in the Q4 2022 and FY 2022 financial report, and the bad news might help explain why NCsoft...
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PSA: Overwatch 2’s battlepass is confusing – make sure you understand what you’re buying

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So here's an interesting tale of how a subtle change in an interface element can be deceptive, intentionally or otherwise. If you play Overwatch...

Activision-Blizzard is stuck with Bobby Kotick if the FTC blocks Microsoft’s takeover

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We noted last week that a lot of gamers who traditionally distrust the increasingly oligopolistic gaming market situation were still hoping to see Microsoft...
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Sony argues Microsoft’s doc request in FTC lawsuit is tantamount to harassment

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The legal claws are coming out between Microsoft and Sony, apparently. Legal filings placed by both companies that involve Sony trying to fight Microsoft's...

UK regulators suggest Microsoft choked Google Stadia out of the cloud gaming market

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The findings shared by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) related to Microsoft's buyout of Activision-Blizzard already had a few things to say...

Q4 2022: Nexon counts huge YOY revenue boost, pushes harder into blockchain

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Nexon's Q4 2022 financial figures are the latest to arrive this week, as CEO Owen Mahoney presided over a mostly decent quarter for the...
Meh.

WoW Factor: Blizzard’s latest earnings report was mixed news for World of Warcraft

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On one level, the most interesting thing that came out of the most recent earnings call for Activision-Blizzard was how much stuff the company...

World of Warcraft’s Chris Metzen: ‘I don’t think I’d ever make video games anywhere else than Blizzard’

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Just before Christmas, Chris Metzen - who'd retired as Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development for Blizzard back in 2016 - rejoined...

Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick says Sony won’t return his phone calls

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Bobby Kotick and the Activision-Blizzard board have shied away from investor calls for the last year as the Microsoft buyout looms, but that hasn't...

Bungie and Destiny 2 players have raised $150,000 for earthquake aid in Turkiye and Syria

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Bungie has joined the surprisingly short list of MMO companies lending their playerbases and pocketbooks in support of humanitarian aid for people affected the...

Q4 2022: Krafton threatens to launch a ‘create-to-earn’ platform in 2023

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Korean games giant Krafton reported $1.47B US in revenues for the full year 2022 period, with operating profit up 15.5% year over year but...
Hmm. Appears I'm still alive.

PUBG Battlegrounds’ Krafton Türkiye donates $100,000 to earthquake relief

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At least one video game studio is stepping up to help with the immense humanitarian crisis that erupted this past week with the earthquake...

UK regulators find that Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard buyout could harm UK market

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If you thought Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's appearance on CNBC was a little bit weird, perhaps it'll make a little bit more sense given...
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Activision-Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick predicts a bleak future for a UK that rejects the Microsoft merger

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Probably the last thing you want to see on a Wednesday or any other day that ends in -day is Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick...

Take Two blames lower third quarter 2023 net bookings on ‘macroeconomic conditions,’ notes strong performance from GTA Online

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While Take Two Interactive has its thumbs in a lot of pies, we're reporting on the company's third quarter financial news primarily because it...

Activision-Blizzard Q4 2022: Blizzard revenues, MAUs spike thanks to WoW Dragonflight and Overwatch 2

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Welcome back to our inevitable coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials: Today's edition sums up Q4's results, comprising October, November, and December 2022. Let's break it...

Workers call out Activision-Blizzard management as it reaches $35M settlement with SEC

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A Better ABK, the proto-union workers group that supports the developers at Activision-Blizzard, has once more thrown a spotlight on management malfeasance, sharing its...
da fuq did I just read

Square-Enix says net sales are down across the board because of ‘weak’ catalog titles and no MMORPG expansion

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The latest financial report out of Square-Enix doesn't appear to be a particularly rosy one as net sales of games across the company's three...
Get dunked.

Overwatch 2’s director maps out the future without map pools and less map frequency

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Hey there, Overwatch 2 player! Do you like map pools? No, you don't; basically no one did, and so they're being removed according to...

Dauntless and Fae Farm studio Phoenix Labs just bought itself out

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Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs is making another huge move this week, as it's apparently secured investment that will allow its management to buy it...