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Smartphone success boosts Square Enix after a quiet nine months on consoles
Online titles Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X boost sales and subscriber numbers
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Jump in physical game sales can't save Sega from sales and income drops
Games success not enough to overcome slumping arcade and smartphone performance
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Tamatem secures $2.5 million to localise mobile games for MENA region
MENA mobile market expected to triple by 2022, but only 1% of games are localised to Arabic
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GungHo details Puzzle & Dragons rescue plan following further decline
Japanese games firm investing in esports, manga, anime, toys and more as mobile hit struggles
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Sony's software strength offsets flat hardware sales
Sony shipped 9 million units of the PlayStation 4 in Q3, down 700k over last year
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Trailmix aims to reinvent casual games - with a little help from Supercell
Backed by $4.2m from Supercell, King veterans Carolin Krenzer and Tristan Clark will push toward a richer and more meaningful take on casual gaming
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$10m Future Fund seeks innovations in blockchain, esports, AR and more
V2Games' Sam Chandola discusses what his company is looking for when investing in start-ups
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Keywords expects $186m in revenues after 11 acquisitions in 2017
Service empire's studio count has grown eightfold in the last five years
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EA stock reaches all-time high ahead of Battlefront II loot box return
Company's stock rose 7%, peaking at $131 following recent financial results
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UK game dev sector grows more than four times the rate of the economy in 2017
Games development sector contributes nearly £1.5 billion to the UK's GDP, says TIGA report
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212 games approved for UK games tax relief in 2017
Government initiative to fund more games development continues, with a further 182 titles receiving interim certification
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Sales and profits both climb at Konami
Decent mobile performance and 80m downloads for mobile PES lead to increased profits guidance
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Capcom income surges thanks to stellar games performance
Ultra Street Fighter II on Switch is a "smash hit", making up for "soft" sales of Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite
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Nintendo's revenue rockets as Switch nears 15m sold
Super Mario Odyssey has sold more than 9m, one of eight million-sellers for Switch this fiscal year
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EA makes $186m Q3 loss despite rising digital revenue
Packaged sales fell 18%, but digital revenue now 67% of total earnings
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Coffee Stain launches gender equality fund to improve developer diversity
Goat Simulator publishers will be investing in startups that employ at least as many women as men
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Tencent takes minority stake in Skydance Media
Reports suggest the stake in Skydance Interactive parent is worth $100 million
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Starbreeze raises $30m in share sale after failure of Raid: World War II
Swedish publisher pledges a stronger marketing push for Overkill's The Walking Dead, and to accelerate production of Payday 3
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Aristocrat buys Big Fish for $990 million
Australian casino firm follows up $500m Plarium acquisition with another huge deal
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UK Games Fund opens for fourth round, grants of up to £25,000 available
Pitch development programme announced for developers who don't meet the UKGF criteria
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Irdeto acquires Denuvo in bid to beef up security for the games industry
"The success of any game title is dependent upon the ability of the title to operate as the publisher intended," says Irdeto CEO
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Logitech earned a record $812 million in Q3
The peripherals company's revenue was up 22 per cent year-on-year to record levels
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US games industry revenue hits record $36bn in 2017
Industry revenue sees 18% growth over 2016 with strong performance from hardware and software sales
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City State Entertainment lands $7.5m from Mythic investors
Mythic founder Mark Jacobs' studio pledges to accelerate the release of crowdfunded MMO Camelot Unchained
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Games revenues expected to reach $235bn by 2022
Could reach $170bn this year, predominantly driven by mobile and PC