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Mike Bithell's Subsurface Circular sees just 2% refund rate
Designer reveals that his newest game has already made back production costs
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Nazara's $550m plans for India's first games industry IPO
Mumbai-based mobile games publisher preparing for public listing
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VR studio War Ducks raises €1.3 million in funding
Irish studio is currently expanding from mobile VR to Rift, PSVR and Vive
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CD Projekt Red valued at over $2bn despite H1 2017 revenues dip
Studio's profits dropped $5m year-on-year but still ongoing success of The Witcher, GOG and Gwent drive firm forward
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Good Shepherd projects averaging 30% profit
Game investment platform cites Train Fever as biggest success, earning investors more than 220% total return
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Rovio details plans for $36m IPO
CEO says share sale will be "an important milestone" for Angry Birds developer
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Funcom records most profitable first-half ever
Developer's comeback in effect as it strings together a second consecutive profitable quarter in Q2
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GameStop Q2 profits fall despite Switch strength
A $7.3m gain from the sale of Kongregate also helped to keep profit decline to 20%
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Payday 2, Dead by Daylight offset rising costs at Starbreeze
Costs up 50% in Q2, but revenue from core franchises was up year-on-year
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Early Access sales helped We Happy Few dev Compulsion quintuple in size
Studio went from seven staff to 40, spends more than Kickstarter total every month
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Kickstarter officially launching in Japan this September
Site will also launch Japanese version, allow local devs to use Japan-based bank accounts and identification
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Tencent online game revenues hit $3.56 billion in Q2
Mobile revenue exceeded PC for the first time thanks to the success of games like Honor of Kings
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"Learn-to-play" studio Lightneer closes seed funding at $5 million
Finnish studio founded by ex-Rovio staff, scientists and academics prepares for first release
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Rovio sees revenue leap 94% in second quarter
Angry Birds Evolution and Battle Bay showed the "strongest launch ARPDAU and other KPIs ever seen in Rovio Games business unit"
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Bluehole squashes Tencent investment rumour
Update: Bluehole confirms no investment was made by Chinese company
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Rovio considers raising $400 million through local IPO - report
Public listing rumours persist, with the Finnish company valued at $2 billion
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Jobs roundup: Guerrilla Games' Angie Smets joins GDC board
Sony UK losing marketing director, promotion and departure at DeltaDNA, senior hires at esports VC and more
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Esports firm acquires majority stake in Eden Games
82.5% stakes in Gear.Club and Test Drive Unlimited developer purchased for €9m
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Nexon reports H1 2017 revenues of $1.12bn
Strong performances in China and Korea drive 27.4% year-on-year increase
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Nvidia earned a record $2.23 billion revenue in Q2
Profits more than doubled to $583 million for the quarter as Nvidia capitalises on "the era of AI"
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NetEase Games revenues rise to $1.4bn for Q2 2017
Accounts for almost 75% of company's overall revenues, primarily driven by mobile games
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Plarium acquired in $500 million deal
Vikings: War of Clans studio bought by Australian casino specialist Aristocrat
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Fig's first funded game released sees 100% return on investment
Investors in Kingdoms and Castles have doubled their money in just a couple weeks after launch
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Singapore start-up BattleBrew Productions secures angel investment
Undisclosed finance will enable former AAA team to release debut title in early 2018
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Mixi reports flat revenue and profits in Q2
New game Fight League launched too late in the quarter to register