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Zynga turnaround continues, company buys Peak Games' card studio for $100m
Zynga has now posted two consecutive profitable quarters for the first time since going public
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Assassin's Creed Origins launch sales double Syndicate's
Strong return of historical action franchise a bonus as Mario + Rabbids, Rainbow Six Siege help push first half sales up 66% year-over-year
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Funding your game through cryptocurrencies
We speak to Reality Gaming Group about the advantages of using Initial Coin Offerings to boost your budget
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Monster Hunter Switch drives Capcom's sales up to $295m
Nintendo title shows "stalwart performance", publisher expects downloads to account for one in three sales by April
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Microsoft gaming revenue stalls ahead of Xbox One X launch
Strong Xbox software and services revenue offset by lower hardware revenue
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UK games tax relief extended to 2023
European Commission renotifies tax incentive scheme, granting another six years of support for British developers
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Glu Mobile revenue reaches $81.1 million in third quarter financials
Design Home drives 58% year-on-year growth for mobile developer
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Sonic Mania success makes up for digital shortfalls in Sega financials
Retro platformer leads packaged game sales of 8.65 million, but publisher hopes for stronger download performance by April
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Razer confirms Hong Kong IPO
Gaming accessories firm offering shares that would raise nearly half a billion US dollars
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Profits up at Konami thanks to strong performance in mobile market
Konami enjoys 24.5% year-on-year profit growth in games industry
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PlayStation drives Sony's Q2 2017 revenues up to $18.25bn
Game and Network Services division saw sales more than double on 2016, PS4 shipments up to 67.5m units
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Super Mario Run is still short of Nintendo's profit expectations
Despite reaching 200 million downloads, Nintendo tells investors that Mario's mobile debut has "not yet reached an acceptable profit point"
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Super Mario Odyssey hits 2 million sales
With Switch sales "tracking those of the Wii," latest Mario game reached almost a third of the console's audience
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Why do we even need a British Games Institute?
Trade bodies and industry veterans discuss the role a publicly-funded agency could play in driving the UK's games industry forward
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Switch shipments will near 17 million units by the end of March
Six-month results show big increases in revenue and profit, with 50 million units of software expected to ship this fiscal year
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Xbox software and services Q1 revenue offsets hardware decline
CEO Satya Nadella positions revenue balance as "leading indicator" of Microsoft's ambitions in the gaming sector
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Over three times as many video game projects fail than succeed on Kickstarter
Video games continue to stagnate on the platform while board games are breaking records
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Gaming video content has an audience of 665 million
SuperData report forecasts ads and direct consumer spending to push GVC earnings to $4.6 billion in 2017
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Magic Leap lands another $502 million
Startup's series D funding round ends up roughly half the size previously reported
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Chinese firm Leyou buys 20% of Certain Affinity for $10m
Co-developer of Halo 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops excited to "create an ambitious and exciting new game together"
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Post-IPO Rovio: "Our numbers will tell the best story going forward"
CEO Kati Levoranta says it's "still very early days" to predict share trading levels, team is already "back to hard work" on growth strategy
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Leaked assets partly responsible for Swery's crowdfunding failure
Campaign was a learning experience and plans are in place to try again on Kickstarter, says developer
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Magic Leap lining up another $1 billion in funding
Secretive startup plans to sell 37 million shares at $27 each, taking lifetime funding beyond $2.5 billion
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Mobile developer Supersolid secures $4 million investment
Developer raises capital as latest game arrives on iOS and Android
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SNES Mini sells over 360,000 units in Japan in four days
The console is on track to outsell its predecessor, though stock shortages remain an issue