financials
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2022: Revenues plummet, Blizzard loses another 2M players
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials.
As of this morning, we have Q1's results, comprising January, February, and March 2022, a...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2021: Blizzard lost another 2M monthly actives as ABK revenue holds steady
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As readers are aware, the company, its leadership, and its games have been the...
The Daily Grind: Do you pay close attention to MMO studio financial reports?
Investor reports are bland, boring, and usually not what anyone finds to be gripping reading even if you're an investor in a given company....
Square Enix earnings drop, FFXIV subs rise, and NFT is here to stay
All things considered, Square Enix is mopping its brow after its latest earning's call and thanking its lucky stars that it wasn't worse. The...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2021: Blizzard MAUs hold steady at 26M as Diablo II Resurrected drives revenues
Welcome back to our quarterly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials, the release day of which has become one of the schadenfreude highlights of each...
EG7 Q2 2021: What the heck is going on at EG7 and Daybreak and who the heck owns Cold Iron
Last week, we covered the puzzling news that EG7's CEO Robin Flodin has been (at least temporarily?) replaced by Daybreak's Ji Ham, a move...
Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis drives SEGA profits in Q2 2021
Despite falling off the radar due to how much has happened in the MMORPG space this summer, Phantasy Star Online 2's New Genesis re-launch...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2020: Blizzard MAUs fell to 30M as overall ActiBlizz revenues hold steady
It's time for another round of Activision-Blizzard financials as today covers Q3 2020. It's been a weird couple of years for the company as...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2020: Year-over-year revenues are up for the first time in six quarters
We're back with another dip into Activision-Blizzard's financials, this one Q2 2020, the first report since shareholders lambasted the company for excessive executive pay...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2020: Blizzard MAUs flat at 32M, but revenue jumps ahead of Shadowlands
It won't surprise you, given the current global health crisis, that a large portion of Activision-Blizzard's first quarter revenue report and conference call focused...
Funcom Q4 2019: DUNE takes priority, Conan Exiles confirms paid expansion, Tencent buyout continues
It's been an interesting financial period for Funcom, what with the Tencent buyout and investors pushing for accelerated production on the DUNE survivalbox. The...
Pearl Abyss had a strong Q4 2019, but CCP’s EVE-spinoff Project Nova is officially canceled
South Korean gaming giant Pearl Abyss is on the rise once again - and unlike many of its mobile-focused competitors, PC MMORPGs and the...
Vague Patch Notes: How to read games industry investor reports as a player
The old adage goes that diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. By extension, marketing is the...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2019: Revenues are down YoY for the fourth straight quarter
So here we are in 2020, looking back at the last quarter of 2019 for Blizzard. Nothing big happened or anything, just a massive...
Tencent made bank in Q3 2019 thanks to mobile – not PC – games
While companies like Blizzard are seeing severe revenue drops this quarter and other MMO companies are trudging along, Tencent is having a rather up...
NCsoft Q3 2019: Another flat financial quarter as NCsoft pumps money into NCWest
Given the strange financial quarters that Blizzard, Funcom, Square-Enix, and Nexon had, you're surely wondering how NCsoft fared. And the answer is... about the...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2019: Revenues sink for the third quarter in a row
Activision-Blizzard has not had the best year. In February, the company saw record-high revenues and promptly laid off 800 employees, leading to widespread condemnation....
Q2 2019 financials: Nexon revenues dip as Netease sees international growth
Nexon's business has been under close scrutiny this year as its owners attempted a sale and then reorganized instead, prompting layoffs earlier this week and...
Activision-Blizzard Q4 2018: Activision-Blizzard posted record profits, layoffs begin anyway
Activision-Blizzard's financial reports have been rather dull affairs for MMO gamers over the last few years, ever since the company stopped reporting World of...
NCsoft 4Q 2018 financials: Mobile made almost twice as much as all NCsoft’s other MMOs combined
NCsoft's financials for the final quarter of 2018 are in, and it wasn't the greatest report the South Korean gaming giant has ever submitted....
