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Texas grows economic incentives for digital media
The Texas Film Commission wants you to make games in their fine state.
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Paypal freezes 50% of Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm! funds
UPDATE: Paypal says the issue has been resolved
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GameStop sales down 10%, profits halved
Retailer says year playing out "as expected," console transition blamed for slumping hardware, pre-owned revenues
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Miniclip joins GameHorizon Investment Summit
Mobile and online games company looking to meet Unity, HTML developers
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Kickstarter founder: "Think before you stretch"
Yancey Strickler says stretch goals muddy the waters when it comes to crowdfunding
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Creative England launches £1m GamesLab fund
Offering support and grants to the industry in the South West
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Disney Interactive sales down 7%, losses growing
Gaming business lags with no major releases as Walt Disney Company grows overall revenues, profits
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Square-Enix cuts quarterly losses by 75%, remains in red
¥1.6 billion extraordinary loss for "review on work-in-progress games"
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Activision Blizzard sales flat, but profits up
Digital sales account for 37% of revenues as publisher warns of challenging back half of year
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Sony PlayStation revenues flat, Y-o-Y, thanks to currency shift
Q1 Games sales at $1.2bn, but operating losses up 322% to $149m
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Wii U R&D spend will hurt Nintendo for the next year - Analyst
IHS analyst says company's inability to ride 3DS sales to profit is concerning, holiday Wii U performance crucial to system's long-term outlook
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Sega financials improve with increased swing to digital
Q1 profits up 400 per cent, Company of Heroes sells 380,000 copies
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Capcom profits drop 37% to $8.4m in Q1
Sales in games division tumble due to no big releases
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Nintendo: 160,000 Wii Us sold globally in past three months
Software sales just over 1 million units for new console system
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Take-Two quarterly sales down 37%
Publisher cites tough comparison against Max Payne 3 launch as digital makes up record 52% of revenues [UPDATE: BioShock Infinite ships 4m]
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Grand Cru raises $11m for Supernauts
"We're not going to grow too quickly and go on a crazy hiring spree"
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Activision's New Deal: The Good and the Bad
[a]list daily examines the details of the buyout from Vivendi and what it means for Activision's future
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GungHo sales up 945% in first half
Puzzle & Dragons dev's $763 million revenues boosted by a $4.9 million daily average in second quarter
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Activision Blizzard goes independent as Kotick leads $8.2 billion buyout
Kotick and Kelly form separate investment group with Tencent as publisher also buys shares
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Zynga backs away from US online gambling
Sales tumble 31% in Q2 as social company warns investors of "more volatility than we would like" over the next 6-12 months
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Gameloft first-half sales up 15%
Mobile publisher reports smartphone and tablet efforts now make up more than half of revenues, expects full-year sales up at least 12%
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Apple: iPhones up, iPads down
31 million smartphones sold is a new quarterly record, but Apple's revenues were flat while profits and tablet sales dipped
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EA earnings flat in Q1 as digital sales continue to rise
Mobile titles like The Simpsons: Tapped Out and Real Racing 3 boost digital, as Origin accounts hit 50m, 22m of which are mobile