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Google Play in-app purchases up 700%
Market trending free-to-play as last year has seen players spend eight times as much from within programs
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Trion hit by mass layoffs
Defiance developer reportedly makes deep cuts to staff, Rift and other games "unaffected"
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Galaxy S4 sales approach 10 million
Samsung says latest smartphone is outpacing the S3, expects it to hit milestone next week
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Selling Your Children: Game Entrepreneurs On Letting Go
Trip Hawkins, Alex Seropian, and Tony Goodman on regrets, emotional trauma, and what drives them to keep starting new companies
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EA pulls plug on Wii U support
Publisher confirms it has no games in development for Nintendo's latest console
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Denise Warren joins EA board of directors
New York Times head of digital content and subscriptions signs on as Greg Maffei steps down from publisher's board
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Core games drive Ubisoft sales up 18%
Assassin's Creed publisher rakes in €1.26 billion for the year, expects casual games to shrink to less than 20% of sales
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Vivendi still looking to unload Activision Blizzard
French telecom weighing options as publisher brass reportedly interested in buying back some of parent company's stake
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E3 still vital to industry, says ESA
Trade group exec says attendees overwhelmingly pleased with the show, confirms it will return to LACC through 2016
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Rift goes free-to-play
Trion Worlds opens up entirety of 2011 MMORPG for non-paying gamers starting next month
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Rovio launches publishing brand
Angry Birds maker debuts Rovio Stars; first game will be iOS title Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage
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Sony's largest investor calls for break-up
Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb suggests splitting Sony Entertainment from Sony Electronics, says they're obscuring each other's worth
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BioShock Infinite hits 3.7 million, boosts Take-Two sales
Publisher's full-year revenues jump 47 percent as digital nearly triples, but it fails to post a profit
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Shadow of the Eternals gets a Kickstarter
Precursor Games now operating simultaneous crowdfunding campaigns for Eternal Darkness follow-up
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Samsung leads $15 million investment in Ubitus
Taiwanese cloud company attracts funding to push gaming services in the TV market
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Sales declines expected through July
Cowen and Company projects double-digit NPD sales declines until Madden hits; April game sales expected down 13%
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Electronic Arts exec sells all shares
EA Sports executive VP Andrew Wilson unloads more than $687,000 worth of stock after Madden maker's price bump
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Defiance TV show renewed for second season
Syfy orders another 13 episodes of Trion MMO's transmedia tie-in
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Wartune advertising runs afoul of ESRB
Free-to-play online game uses Adults Only rating as selling point, even though it's never been rated at all
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Namco posts best annual results in years
Tekken, Soulcalibur, and Naruto games all top 1 million sold; revenues and profits at five-year highs
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Ken Kutaragi joins Marvelous AQL
Former Sony chairman and CEO becomes external director at Japanese publisher of Harvest Moon
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Konami sales down 15%, profits nearly halved
Publisher's fiscal 2013 a setback as mobile growth stalls, Metal Gear Rising posts "solid" performance
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PlayStation full-year sales slide
Sony boosts overall revenues and profits as gaming business heads in opposite direction; Vita continues to struggle
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Ouya raises $15 million in new funding, delays launch
New investor puts Bing Gordon on board of directors as release shifts back a few weeks to June 25
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Diablo III auction house taken down by gold-duping bug
Blizzard temporarily shuts down feature after update-induced glitch upends in-game economy