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Capcom Profits Up 50.8% Thanks to “Highly Profitable” Digital Downloads
gamesindustry.biz reports: "Profits at Capcom were up last quarter, thanks primarily to "highly profitable" digital downloads of catalog titles. The Japanese developer and publisher...
Bunch raises $3.85m toward development, expanded partnerships
gamesindustry.biz reports: "Mobile group chat and partying app Bunch has announced it raised $3.85 million in funding from several major gaming companies."
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Tencent takes over China’s streaming market with $262m Huya stake
Gamesindustry.biz reports: "Chinese technology giant Tencent has purchased a controlling stake in the Twitch-like streaming service Huya -- and as a result a dominant...
Social Games Publisher Zynga Acquires Developer Area/Code
San Francisco - Social games publisher Zynga announced on
Friday that it has acquired social and mobile game developer Area/Code.
Financial terms of the transaction were...
Black Friday weekend digital game spending reached record $4.36b
gamesindustry.biz reports: "Black Friday digital gaming sales reached a record high this year according to SuperData, hitting a total of $4.36 billion from Black...
Blizzard signs three-year deal with ESL, DreamHack
gamesindustry.biz reports: "Modern Times Group today announced that its esports subsidiaries ESL and DreamHack have signed a three-year deal with Blizzard Entertainment to run...
Survey: 24% of Internet Users Are Social Gamers
Seattle - More than 24% of U.S. and U.K. Internet
users say they play social games regularly, making for a total of approximately
100 million social...
Google Celebrates Pac-Man's 30th With Home Page Game
Mountain View,
Calif. - To celebrate the
thirtieth anniversary of the release of the iconic video game
"Pac-Man," Google (NASD: GOOG) on Friday altered its home page logo...
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem Debuts 'UltraViolet'
Los Angeles - The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
(DECE), a consortium of technology and entertainment firms jointly developing a
new open market for digital content distribution,...
StreamLabs/Newzoo: Fortnite Still Rules Twitch, But Hours Watched Declined in Q3
VentureBeat reports: "Fortnite was still the most-watch game on livestreaming platform Twitch in the third quarter, but the hours watched on the platform declined,...
