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10:45 AM on 05.09.2013

Ouya raises $15 million in new funding

Ouya gets a big boost today with the announcement of $15 million in new funding. This money is beyond the $8.6 million raised from the Kickstarter crowdfunding round. They plan to use this money to meet increased demand for t...

Dale North

3:00 AM on 05.09.2013

Resident Evil 6 fails to meet sales projections ... again

Capcom originally projected that Resident Evil 6 would sell seven million copies. They revised that number in February to five million, but as of yesterday's financial results Resident Evil 6 fell barely short of the target w...

Hamza CTZ Aziz

5:15 PM on 05.08.2013

Free-to-play has 'doubled' income for The Old Republic

EA's president of labels Frank Gibeau announced during yesterday's earnings call that after Star Wars: The Old Republic transitioned to a free-to-play model, "the monthly revenue has doubled." Gibeau also confirmed that the g...

Alasdair Duncan

2:00 PM on 05.08.2013

Diablo III auction houses taken offline due to gold bug

Following the release of patch 1.0.8 for Diablo III, a bug that allowed players to duplicate gold through the auction house was discovered. And, naturally, some folks ran with the exploit. The auction houses were taken offlin...

Jordan Devore

9:00 AM on 05.08.2013

Dead Space 3 is the latest game to have officially failed

It had co-op and cover-based shooting, but Electronic Arts' flailing attempts to make Dead Space 3 "appeal to a wider audience" apparently failed. Visceral's latest game now joins Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution and Resident ...

Jim Sterling

7:30 PM on 05.07.2013

EA reports a Q4 drop in income, but was up for the year

During an investors' call today, EA revealed its financials for Q4 2012. The company saw a decrease in revenue when compared to the previous quarter, from $1.368 billion in quarter three to $1.209 billion in quarter four. Des...

Brett Makedonski

1:15 PM on 05.07.2013

CNN: Nintendo's ideas are warped and counterintuitive

CNNMoney has published an analysis of Nintendo's current situation, and like a certain other pundit, it doesn't paint a very pretty picture. In an article titled, "Nintendo's Big Problem," the financial outlet says the compan...

Jim Sterling

7:00 PM on 05.05.2013

Community survey: The cost of games in your region

[Dtoid community blogger TheToiletDuck is conducting a survey, and we thought you might like to help him! --Mr Andy Dixon] I need your help. I've wanted to write this blog about the cost of gaming across the world for a while...

TheToiletDuck

2:30 PM on 05.04.2013

Starbound pre-order sales top one million dollars

Less than a month after pre-orders opened for Chucklefish's upcoming sci-fi sandbox Starbound, the developer reports that it has already netted more than one million dollars from over 45,000 pre-sales. In hitting this mi...

Darren Nakamura

8:00 AM on 05.02.2013

Sony execs surrender annual bonuses in financial letdown

Sony CEO Kaz Hirai is one of the roughly 40 executives giving up annual bonuses in the wake of the company's financial results. This will result in suits losing between 30 and 50% of the money they normally take home every ye...

Jim Sterling

2:45 PM on 05.01.2013

Satoru Iwata excited about Nintendo's digital business

Following Nintendo's fiscal year 2013 briefing, during which president Satoru Iwata announced a significant change to the company's E3 presence, a Q&A session was held to address investors' concerns and inquiries. It was ...

Tony Ponce

8:00 AM on 04.30.2013

Bungie's Destiny to feature 'monetization' shenanigans

Monetization. It's an ugly word, especially to those aware of its implications. According to an Activision employee resume, it's also coming to Bungie's upcoming shooter, Destiny. You may be feeling a cold shudder running dow...

Jim Sterling

8:30 PM on 04.27.2013

Bobby Kotick received 8x pay increase in 2012 (Update)

[Update: Kotick did not in fact receive $64.9 million (an 8x pay increase) in 2012. He received $8.33 million, as he did in 2011. Bloomberg, the source of our post, updated its article to reflect this, now pretend you underst...

Brett Makedonski

1:00 PM on 04.26.2013

Iwata: Wii U needed more software, better education

Nintendo global president and newly minted America CEO Satoru Iwata recently addressed investors to explain his company's performance. Ever the humble executive, Iwata admitted the Wii U suffered from lacking software and a c...

Jim Sterling

12:30 PM on 04.26.2013

THQ still owes hundreds of millions to its creditors

If the filed claims are to be believed, THQ owes more than $200 million to various creditors in wake of its recent bankruptcy. Hundreds of parties have been added to the bankruptcy proceedings, many of them claiming several m...

Brett Makedonski

9:00 PM on 04.24.2013

Capcom's recent canceled games were all unannounced

In a Q&A summary regarding Capcom's revised financial forecast, which recently made headlines for its even greater focus on downloadable content and cancellation of projects that did not fit within this new stra...

Jordan Devore