February 20, 2020 Netmarble Financials Q4 Fy19 Netmarble's profits fell to $136 million in 2019 despite steady performance in North America Though sales have increased to $1.86 billion
February 12, 2020 Had Its Hay Day? Supercell revenues fall for third consecutive year to $1.56 billion in 2019 Profits fell to $577 million too
July 31, 2019 Licence Royale 7% of Games Workshop royalty income comes from mobile Total War: Warhammer 2 and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 cited for their strong performances in boosting royalty revenue
June 11, 2019 Profit And Revenue Games Workshop generated $323 million in revenue over the last 12 months This includes approximately $102m in profit
May 23, 2019 Financials Gravity and Puzzle & Dragons spur on GungHo sales to $318m in Q1 2019 Developer Gravity riding high on Ragnarok M success
May 23, 2019 Financial Declines For the first time since launch Lineage 2 is no longer Netmarble’s biggest sales driver Blade & Soul Revolution generated more revenue than any of the publisher’s other games in Q1 2019
May 16, 2019 Mobile Future NCSoft wants more from its legacy RPG franchises on mobile as sales decline Mobile still makes up more than half of the company's sales
May 14, 2019 Covet Profits Glu Mobile’s return to profitability dampened by share price drop Crowdstar powers sales as Design Home and Covet Fashion lead the way
May 10, 2019 Financial MapleStory and Dungeon & Fighter shatter expectations to drive Nexon’s Q1 2019 results Nexon predicts further growth as it heads into the next quarter
May 3, 2019 Sales Decline King revenue falls year-on-year to $529m despite growth in MAUs PC declines and Candy Crush Friends Saga impacts profitability
May 2, 2019 Good Dog Zynga posts record mobile bookings of $341m in Q1 2019 thanks to Empires & Puzzles and Merge Dragons However losses increased significantly due to the outperformance of these titles, resulting in bigger earnouts for Small Giant Games and Gram Games
May 1, 2019 Apple Financials Apple sales and profits fall as services gains fail to make up for hardware decline iPhone sales down 17 per cent as services hits record $11.5 billion
April 25, 2019 Nintendo Cashes In Nintendo mobile division sales up 17% to $412m in FY2019 Total sales for the fiscal year rose to $10.7 billion
April 25, 2019 Dream Start Angry Birds 2 and Dream Blast drive up Rovio games revenue to $74m in Q1 Angry Birds Dream Blast is already the games division's second-biggest revenue driver
April 18, 2019 Still Going Strong Stillfront Group plots further M&A as profits double in 2018 "We are staffing up for more M&A activity and remain as confident as ever in our screening process and post-acquisition strategies"
February 19, 2019 Financials Netmarble profit tumbles 72% year-on-year in Q4 due to slowing sales and lack of new releases Publisher appears to be struggling to fill the hole from fading Lineage 2 and Harry Potter revenue
February 15, 2019 What's Next? The Walking Dead: Our World dev Next Games lays off 26 staff as losses mount Operating losses for 2018 increases to $19 million
February 13, 2019 Hail To The King Candy Crush maker King's revenue up in 2018 to $2bn, touts $100m ads business "The next phase about where the ad business heading is about continued scaling"
February 12, 2019 Keep Calm And Carry On After generating $1 billion-plus from each of its first four games, Supercell’s falling revenue is kind of the point 2019 could see the company experience explosive growth again
February 12, 2019 Financials Supercell revenue drops again to $1.6 billion for 2018 But Brawl Stars performance signals better times ahead
February 6, 2019 On The Up Design Home generates $158 million in 2018 as Glu Mobile closes in on profitability Big year ahead for the publisher's steady comeback
February 1, 2019 Sports Stars Sports games score big sales for Konami as revenue tops $1.76 billion for last nine months Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links set to launch in China on mobile
August 9, 2018 Financials Square Enix profits drop after three months with no new games and new mobile titles fail to perform Three-month financial results show a slow quarter for the Japanese publisher
August 3, 2018 Report Keywords half-year pre-tax profits up 66% to $18.43m All 7 acquisitions made in 2018 so far are performing "in line with expectations"
August 2, 2018 Well Made Games Workshop's yearly profits nearly double to $97m “Our business and our hobby are in great shape, the best shape either has been for some time”
July 31, 2018 Report Nintendo Switch nears 20 million sales Earnings report for the Japanese publisher shows a strong start to the year, with $1.5b in overall revenue so far
July 30, 2018 Financials Capcom delivers record $35m profits despite mobile decline Revenue jumps to $155 million for the three months ending June 30th 2018
July 27, 2018 Hustle And Bustle War Robots and Hustle Castle spur Mail.Ru’s game revenue to $89m Mobile on the march at publisher
July 24, 2018 Slow And Steady Next Games revenue nearly halves in H1 2018 as The Walking Dead: Our World dev buckles down on game launches Development costs and fall in DAUS hurts sales
June 13, 2018 Back In The Black Pearl’s Peril studio Wooga profitable again after 'two tough years' Appoints former Miniclip chief financial officer Ross Logan as new CFO
May 29, 2018 Critical Hit Pokemon Company profits almost halve to $81 million But still represents the second highest on record
May 22, 2018 G5 Financials Hidden object specialist G5 Entertainment grows revenues to $43m in Q1 2018 Net income reported at $5 million
May 18, 2018 On The App Mobile revenues up 66% as Ubisoft posts total sales of $2 billion for the financial year Performance exceeded the company’s original expectations
May 17, 2018 Netease Financials NetEase profits tumble 20% in Q1 as Onmyoji and New Ghost lose traction Battle royale hits Knives Out and Terminator 2: Judgement Day offset lost revenue
May 17, 2018 Rovio Financials Record revenues for Angry Birds 2 boost Rovio profits But overall company sales dip year-on-year
May 17, 2018 What's Next? Monster Strike publisher Mixi plots $900m investment in biz dev and M&A over next five years $100 million earmarked for Monster Strike and new IP development
May 16, 2018 Tencent Financials Tencent’s mobile games revenue up 68% to $3.4 billion in Q1 2018 But investors concerned by historically low operating margin
May 15, 2018 Power Of Ip Lineage M spikes NCSoft profits up 570% year-on-year to $189m But revenues are down quarter-on-quarter as Lineage sales stabilise
May 15, 2018 Still Going Strong GungHo’s sales and profits continue to fall amidst Puzzle & Dragons decline But still hugely profitable
May 11, 2018 Oh Mobile games Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links and Pro Evo 2018 power Konami to record profits of $413m Revenues also grew 4.2 per cent year-on-year to $2.19 billion
February 22, 2018 Business News Rovio issues profit warning as company plots big Hatch investment and UA costs rise Revenues also anticipated to be well down from forecasts
February 7, 2018 Narrative Of Decline $6 billion on from Puzzle & Dragons’ launch, whatever happened to Gungho Online? Fumbling the golden egg
January 12, 2018 Building A New Monster How Seriously took a new IP and created a $100 million business But there's still a lot of work to be done
November 23, 2017 Rovio Shares Rovio's share price falls 20% as user acquisition spend increases and profits drop UA spend went up by 308.7% in its July-September period
November 8, 2017 On The Up Zynga posts profit for second consecutive quarter for first time since IPO Revenues at highest level in four years
November 3, 2017 What’s Next? Profit over scale: Why EA isn’t concerned EA Mobile’s growth is slowing Steady as she goes
October 31, 2017 Performance Rundown Super Mario Run clocks up 200 million downloads but Fire Emblem Heroes has better profitability Mario gets the reach as Fire Emblem get the money