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Starbreeze doubled revenue in Q1 on Dead by Daylight sale
The Swedish company narrowed its losses, invested $7.7m in Mohawk Games' 10 Crowns
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Monster Hunter: World drives Capcom's most profitable year ever
Fantasy action game has now sold 7.9 million units, offsetting "worsened conditions" in amusement market
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Chinese games market expected to reach $42bn revenue by 2022
Increase in number of female users puts China on path to 720 million gamers
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Activision share price wounded following "extraordinary error" by Dow Jones
Confusion overshadowed record Q1 revenue for publisher; stock value down 2.3 per cent by market close
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Activision Blizzard posts record Q1
Call of Duty: WWII helps drive Activision business even as engagement metrics drop for King and Blizzard
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Zynga posts $5.6m profit last quarter after predicting $9.5m loss
Meanwhile, company founder Mark Pincus reduces personal voting power from 70 per cent to ten per cent
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Fortnite pulls in fives times more revenue than PUBG on iOS
First week of monetisation for PUBG Mobile sees combined platform revenue reach only one third of Epic Games' offering
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Sumo Digital transformed £52.2m debt into £12.4m cash balance in 2017
Crackdown 3 developer buoyant in first financial results following last year's IPO
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Glu's fiscal year "off to a great start" with $81.4m revenues
First quarter results also show losses down 70% to $7.2m, thanks to Design Home and Kim Kardashian
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Loot boxes expected to drive games market to $160 billion by 2022
Juniper Research also predicts Switch-driven console revival, with revenues to reach $33.2 in four years
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PlayStation 4 sales pass 75m in another strong year for Sony
Software sales and PS Plus subs were both up, but Sony is preparing for hardware decline in the coming year
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Third-party sales boosted Microsoft Gaming revenue in Q3
Gaming revenue was up 18%, Xbox Live users up 13% to 59 million
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Turtle Beach regains compliance with Nasdaq listing standards
Gaming headset firm reaches minimum bid price and market value to stay public
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Razer eyes SE Asia expansion with $61 million MOL Global buyout
The deal will combine zGold and MOLPoints, "creating one of the world's largest virtual credits platforms for gamers"
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Firewatch studio Campo Santo is now part of Valve
Work on its second game, In the Valley of Gods, will continue from Valve's Bellevue office
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Dontnod plotting IPO on Euronext Growth
Life is Strange developer registers with AMF as it prepares to go public
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Tencent dominates $22 billion games deals market over last 12 months
Chinese tech giant directly involved with 40 per cent of all money invested in games company funding rounds
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Unikrn sets up cryptocurrency esports betting platform with acquisition of ChallengeMe.gg
“This is a big deal for me, for Unikrn and, honestly, for the entire gaming ecosystem,” says Unikrn CEO
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BetaDwarf receives investment of undisclosed amount from London Venture Partners
Funds will be focused into establishing games as a service strategy ahead of Minion Masters launch
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Eight Rezzed sessions you won't want to miss
Advice on career changes, promoting your game and community management all offered at London games showcase this weekend
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VR social platform vTime raises $7.6 million Series A
UK firm will use funding to push into augmented reality
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Altered Ventures fund has $36m to invest in projects for emerging markets
Emerging markets are a "special focus" for new fund from Streamline Media Group and Mountain Nazca
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Keywords Studios acquire multiple audio service firms
Cord Worldwide, Laced Music Group, and Maximal now part of the Keywords group
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Gender pay gaps: Here's how we fix them
Amiqus' Liz Prince believes this week's revelations should compel the industry to address how it recruits, retains and promotes women
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69% of large UK games firms have bigger gender pay gap than national average
UPDATE: King and Rockstar added to database, based on businesses with 250 or more employees