Entries in 'revenue' (155)
Microsoft enjoys record quarter
Xbox 360 and Windows platform holder Microsoft has reported its best ever quarterly earnings for the three months ending December 31st.
EA: Digital to overtake physical in 2011
The switch from boxed to digital goods is going to happen far quicker than most of the industry has expected, according to EA CEO John Riccitiello.
LOTRO revenues triple
The Lord of the Rings Online MMO is making three times as much money since adopting a free-to-play subscription model, the game’s developer has claimed.
Take-Two achieves non-GTA profit
A long-term goal was finally achieved at the offices of publisher Take-Two last night - it was able to announce a year of overall profit without releasing a Grand Theft ...
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Zynga revenues could hit $400m
Social game giant Zynga could be on the verge of surpassing revenues of $400 million for the calendar year, independent data and user trends suggest.
Profits up at Future
Future Publishing has posted a slight increase in profit for the year ending September 30th 2010.
Pre-owned claims 50% of GameStop profit
GameStop has revealed that sales of pre-owned game products accounted for 47.4 per cent of the company’s profit for the three months ending October 2010.
NPD: October down 4% year-on-year
American sales tracker NPD has announced that the US video games market was worth $1.07bn in October 2010 – that’s four per cent down on the same month in 2009.
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Black Ops helps UK to £113.8m record-breaker
Sales of 2m units in its first five days on release has seen Call of Duty: Black Ops shatter UK sales records and effortlessly claim the position of UKIE GfK ...
5m copies of New Vegas shipped
ZeniMax owned publisher Bethesda has confirmed that it has now shipped five million copies of recent post-apocalyptic Xbox 360, PS3 and PC hit Fallout: New Vegas.
Minecraft passes 500k purchases
Indie PC hit Minecraft has passed the 500,000 purchases barrier as the one-man project continues to take the gaming world by storm.
Sega Sammy reduces games losses
Japanese publisher Sega Sammy has reduced its gaming losses for the first half of its financial year on the back of strong video games software sales which helped propel the ...
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PlayStation division returns to profit
The Networked Product and Services Division of Sony, which houses amongst many things its PlayStation operations, has reported an operating profit of ¥6.9bn ($86m) in its fiscal Q2 – a ...
Google posts huge profits
Internet tech specialist Google has reported third quarter profits of $2.2bn, which is 32 per cent up on the same period in 2009.
HMRC warns over game stock deals
Retailers must be more vigilant with rogue traders if they want to avoid having their tax returns voided.
DeNA's ngmoco acquisition – the numbers
Japanese social games firm DeNA has published documents giving more details about its acquisition of US mobile startup ngmoco.
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Taxman hunts down dodgy importers
UK retailers could be left out of pocket as Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs clamps down on corrupt distributors.
Revenue doubles at LOTR Online
Codemasters’ decision to drop subscription charges from Lord of the Rings Online and switch to microtransactions has been a big success for the game.
FIFA 11 enjoys record UK launch
As well as claiming the top spot in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, FIFA 11 has also set a new sales benchmark for the ...
Minecraft creator earning $350k a day
You may not have heard of it, but a ‘little’ indie game called Minecraft is causing a bit of a stir online. So much so, in fact, that right now ...
Activision talks COD Premium service
Though question marks hang over Activision’s true intentions toward a possible Premium online Call of Duty service, the publisher’s COO Thomas Tippl has admitted that the company is looking ...
Halo Reach sells 300k in UK on day one
MCV can reveal that 300,000 copies of Microsoft’s Halo Reach were sold in the game’s first 24 hours on sale in the UK.
Income explodes at Konami
Konami’s latest quarterly financials report a massive 244.7 per cent year-on-year jump in net income to YEN 1,265m compared to the 93.5 per cent dip it suffered in the same ...
Namco reports sales lift, drop in losses
Namco Bandai his filed it financial report for the quarter ending June 30th 2010, brining with it net sales reached YEN 81,912m, an increase of 8.2 per cent over the ...
Future’s Q3 revenue up 2%
Media group Future has reported what it describes as an “encouraging” two per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for its 2010 Q3.
