Entries in ‘financial’ (64)
News: Loss turns to profit at Activision
$15m profit for the quarter ending September 30th – a big improvement on last year’s $108m loss
News: Ubisoft H1 sales fall 51.7%
Publisher says that the upcoming quarter “will be the most important in its history”
News: Profits and revenues fall at Microsoft
But there’s more good news for Xbox, with profit doubling at Entertainment and Devices division
News: Square Enix suffers gaming losses
Net sales increase can’t offset operating loss of $10m in games division as financial impact of Eidos acquisition is felt
News: Konami sales down 45%
2008’s ‘Metal Gear effect’ brings bad year-on-year comparison for Japanese publisher
News: EA losses more than double
Boss Riccitiello admits that the industry has become “weaker than originally expected”
News: Unit sales down at Disney Interactive
But year-on-year losses reduced as Disney remains upbeat about strength of its business
News: Capcom bucks financial trend
Revenues up 19 per cent year-on-year as Resi and Monster Hunter continue to deliver
News: Sales up 77% at THQ
Chief executive Brian Farrell says numbers are “evidence of a dramatic turnaround”
News: Revenues rocket at Atari
Q1 numbers up 30% year-on-year but Atari warns industry not to get too excited
News: Xbox sales up year-on-year
Entertainment Division still in the black despite revenue falls; Overall Microsoft performance poor
News: Nokia and Sony Ericsson report grim results
Quarterly revenues down 25% for Finnish giant; Sony Ericsson handset sales down 43%
News: Tesco’s UK sales up 4.3 per cent
Non-food business sees “modest growth” with total non-petrol UK growth hitting 9.3 per cent
News: Sony hit by $1bn annual losses
Numbers better than predicted, despite company’s first annual loss in 14 years
News: THQ annual losses sink to $431 million
Publisher taking "swift and aggressive actions” as sales fall and net losses rise
News: Annual EA losses pass $1bn
Net losses for year ending March 31st increase by over 100 per cent, though EA promises better 2010
News: Analysts pin EA sales at $631.9m
Michael Pachter says the firm is just “one or two” quarters away from restoring investor confidence
News: HMV like-for-like sales climb 1.9%
Group expects to meet market expectations, projecting pre-tax profits at £50m-£63m as annual sales climb
News: Budget 2009: Govt has ‘failed to back the games industry’
Tiga slams Darling’s budget, saying the Chancellor has “missed a trick” in neglecting the game business
News: Budget 2009: Tiga’s demands
Tiga CEO Richard Wilson tells MCV the measures that need to be introduced in the 2009 Budget, and what he actually expects
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