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While mobile phones were originally designed to be used as a communications device, technology has evolved to the point where we can game comfortably on our phones and tablets, giving game developers another potential market to tap into apart from more traditional channels such as com

Take-Two Interactive Software reported $299.5 million games revenues in Q1 2013. This compares to $148.1 million for Q1 2012. The largest contributors to net revenue were the release of BioShock® Infinite; catalog sales led by Grand Theft Auto® IV, Red Dead Redemption® and Sid Meier’s

Activision Blizzard announced $1.32 billion games revenues in Q1 2013. This compares with $1.17 billion for Q1 2012. For Q1, net revenues from digital channels were 28% of total revenues. Bobby Kotick, Chief Executive Officer, Activision Blizzard, said, “Our Q1 performance was driven

PT. 24 Jam Online is a leading payment solution provider (PSP) in Indonesia. The company spends more than 2 years carrying out the research and development of its payment gateway management system SJLv2 (patent filed). Thus currently, the company has more than 7,500 distribution netwo

Payvision, the independent Payment Solution Provider have released a free global industry report providing insights into the lucrative social casino games market. The report details how traditional online gaming and real-money gaming have converged in the race for social casino. Socia

THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY Digital Kitchen is a content-first agency. We elevate the importance of content in the strategic and creative process to build authentic brands that resonate with today’s media savvy consumers. Through research and conceptual modeling, we construct a narrative

Here at Adknowledge, we connect advertisers with the appropriate audience, in the right place and at the right time. With a database of 400 million people, we can predict online preferences and behavior. We convert that insight into your brand’s message and send it through various cha

This is an extract from an article found at theverge.com.  It contains some interesting insights that fit the consumer and business insights focus of our blog. Microsoft is investing in TV in a big way with its next Xbox console as part of a fight for the living room. Multiple sources

Rovio Entertainement Ltd, the hugely successful Finnish game publisher, have announced their financial results for the full year 2012. Full year revenues were €152.2 million, a 101% growth from the €75.6 million reported in 2011. The company attrbiuted the success to a healthy growth

GameStop Corp, the world’s largest multichannel video game retailer, have posted their financial results  for Q4 and the fiscal year ended Feb. 2, 2013.  These results include an extra week compared to fiscal 2011. Total global sales for Q4 of 2012 were $3.56 billion compared to

European online games publisher ProSiebenSat.1 Games and Kabam, the leading provider of F2P games for mobile devices, have announced a partnership to distribute and promote F2P games across Europe. ProSiebenSat1, a subsidiary of a large privately owned television channel in Germany, h

Leading Chinese online game developer Shanda have announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. For Q4 2012 net revenues were $172.1 million, down 20.2% YoY and up 0.1% QoQ. Gross profit $115.9 million, down 15.7% YoY and up 3.3% QoQ. Av

Gaming giant Activison Blizzard have reported results for Q4 2012 ending December 31st 2012. Fourth quarter revenues were $1.77 billion, this is a 25.66% increase compared with $1.41  billion in 2011. GAAP earnings per share were 31 cents, compared with 8  cents a share a year earlier

Ubisoft have released its financial figures for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2012. Sales for the fourth quarter of 2012 totaled €802 million, up 23.0% compared with the €652 million recorded for the same period of 2011. From March to December 2012, sales totaled €1,081 millio

Apple have named the tops Apps of 2012 as well their own pick of the best apps and games of the year. The company named Rayman Jungle Run as the best iPhone game of the year and The room got crowned the best game on iPad. Here are the top ten lists: Top Free iPhone Apps: YouTube, by G

MoMinis, a mobile-game publisher based in Israel has secured $6 million in funding from Gemini Israel Ventures. MoMinis runs PlayScape which is a virtual environment that allows gamers to check out  games and developers to promote them. According to the company, their reach extends to

Kabam, the US social games publisher, has acquired Bejing based social gamers developer, Balanced World Studios. Balanced Worlds is headed by three North American AAA developers, CEO Christopher Pfeiffer, COO Alexander Ronalds, and CTO Maxim Garber, who relocated to China in 2006 to t

Shanda Games announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. Net revenues were RMB1,080.5 million (US$170.4 million), compared with RMB1,352.8 million in the third quarter of 2011 and RMB1,130.5 million in the second quarter of 20

Activision Blizzard announced better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter of 2012. For the quarter ended September 30, 2012, the company delivered record GAAP net revenues of $841 million from (online) video games, as compared with $754 million for the third quarter o

  Social Gaming Summit The first London Social Gaming Summit is a one day event focused on the intersection of games and the social web. The event focuses on helping social games developers build, monetise, and grow their social games. We’re bringing together the leaders in