The numbers are in, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses is rocking it. As per US NPD data (gleaned from industry analyst Mat Piscatella), Fire Emblem: Three Houses was the second best selling game in all of July, only behind Madden NFL ...

Among Nintendo's general hardware earnings for this past quarter, the publisher also took the time to specifically call out at least one software success: Super Mario Maker 2. In its quarterly report, Nintendo boasts that in the short perio...

The latest set of Nintendo financials have hit and there's a lot to unpack here, but we'll start with the 3DS. Amid bi-monthly discussions about whether or not the 3DS is going the way of the dodo, Nintendo is reporting that the now-eight-y...

In their financial report for January through March 2019, THQ Nordic is reporting a 158% increase in net sales this past quarter. The publishing giant gives most of the credit to Deep Silver (Metro Exodus, Outward in particular) which ...

Nintendo has a lot to celebrate as they have just surpassed the behemoth-like PS4 in terms of lifetime Switch sales in Japan. According to Famitsu, the little hybrid console sold 8.13 million units in that region, higher than Sony's 8.07 mi...

Square Enix's financials look a little Goofy. The Japanese publisher had a weak fiscal year despite a release slate that was headlined by the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III. Sales aren't the issue, though. The costs associated with getting...

Starbreeze is in financial peril, recently made worse by a $17.5 million loss during the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The Swedish publisher expects a liquidity shortfall by mid-2019, meaning that its liabilities significantly o...

Publisher Koei Tecmo has released their latest financial report revealing that, among many other numbers, that their flagship fighter Dead or Alive 6 sold approximately 350,000 copies in its first month of release.Now, of course, that's a s...

Forward, always forward. That Luke Cage motto is serving Sony well this generation, as they propelled themselves to 96.8 million PS4s sold worldwide as of the end of their last fiscal year (March 31, 2019). That's a monumental feat to ...

Remember Miitomo? Hell, remember Miis, and Miiverse/Swapnote? While Nintendo continues to reference the little-avatars-on-life-support every so often (like ancillary Smash characters or Mario Kart 8 racers) they're nearly dead and...

Content holders have every opportunity to be squirrely about hard data. Netflix is infamous for only telling us when something is a rip-roaring success, and Microsoft eventually started withholding (Lucille Bluth would be proud) Xbox One ha...

Smash Ultimate is a triumph by any measure. It's currently tied as the highest-rated game in the series with Brawl on Metacritic, it's loved by fans, and of course, has sold a ton. How much is a ton? A lot. Let's break it down. In just over...

Nintendo is a wild, wild company to speculate about: even mostly guesswork can end up accurate. It has a baked-in audience at any given time so rumors will always be read; even during the Wii U years, and they're such an out-there publisher...

The last time we left the Nintendo Switch, it was floating in the orbit of the Nintendo 64's 32.93 million lifetime sales: now, it has officially surpassed them thanks to a new financial report from Nintendo last night. According to the pub...

Here's a statistic that isn't necessarily indicative of performance or success or profit: BioWare's Anthem has probably topped $100 million in digital revenue since its February 22 launch. That's the figure that analyst firm SuperData ...

Assassin's Creed has long been thought of as Ubisoft's flagship franchise. It may be time to overhaul that line of thinking. Ubisoft has released its third quarter 2018-2019 financials and there's a surprising statistic about the 2018 ...

Electronic Arts is disappointed in the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. In a release to investors, EA says it didn't perform to expectations and that it didn't execute on strategies like it expected to, especially compared to what has...

With the reveal of each month's new PlayStation Plus free games, there's a common-and-disappointed refrain that there isn't much to get excited about. However, plenty of people must find value in Sony's premium online PlayStation service be...

[Update: It seems that Jurassic Park: The Game and all previous seasons of The Walking Dead have been removed from Steam. You will still retain access if you've already purchased them.] According to a report from GameDaily, Telltale Games i...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a critical and commercial success by any definition. It's racking up perfect and near-perfect review scores, and it's also selling a ton of copies. Rockstar's parent company Take-Two Interactive has an interest...

Every time I speak to an indie developer I try to work in a question on how easy it is to work with the Switch platform: they almost unanimously say that it's leaps and bounds more simple than previous Nintendo systems. That mentality seems...

Another day, another installment of the MoviePass Deathwatch. If it feels like the struggling company already made major and controversial changes just a few days ago, it is because they literally did. After limiting their service away from...

MoviePass continues to shamble along like Frankenstein's monster, with mad scientist and MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe releasing a statement to all customers of the faltering company. A recent outage put the company's financial predicament in th...

Another week, another story on the slow, inevitable car crash that is MoviePass. Any moviegoer who was looking to use their MoviePass last night were frustrated to find that "technical issues" were preventing them from utilizing the service...

[Update: Ubisoft has confirmed to us that Far Cry 5 does count as a back-catalog title for the purpose of the company's first-quarter 2018-2019 sales figures. A representative responded to our inquiry by stating "Yes, Far Cry 5 qu...