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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 Auto title. For the year ending October 31st profit hit $42.5m. In the year before Take-Two endured a $140m loss. …

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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. HIS Screen Digest games analyst Piers Harding-Rolls has revealed some of his firm’s own research data to Develop, and calculates that the Facebook games group …

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Profits up at Future

Future Publishing has posted a slight increase in profit for the year ending September 30th 2010. The period saw profits of 8.3m, up from the 7.6m in the same period a year before. Revenue fell one per cent to 151.5m. Net debt was reduced by nearly 50 per cent to …

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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. In total pre-owned was worth $528.m, with profit of $250.2m. By comparison profit from new games reached $182.4m (21.7 per cent of the quarter’s total) …

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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. Year-to-date US gaming has made $11.07bn, eight per cent less than it had at this stage last year. Hardware saw …

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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 Chart-Track All Formats No.1. The numbers represent an estimated revenue of 81.9m. The numbers are 13 per cent better than …

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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. Add to this what Bethesda describes as heavy volumes” of digital downloads and the game has already grossed in excess of $300m at retail. …

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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. In the last 24 hours alone the game has sold nearly 10k copies. The Minecraft stats site is currently down, meaning the very latest numbers aren’t currently available. …

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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 company to record profits. An operating loss for the six months ending September of 1.3bn ($16m) was reported for its …

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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 drastic improvement on the 59bn ($730m) loss it incurred in the same period in 2009. Sales at the unit grew …

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