TGE Index Investment Report - Q4 & Year-End 2020
2020 highlights - Total investment and M&A activity across the video games industry tracked by the TGE Index through April-December 2020 reached USD$37.890bn from 406 disclosed transactions (501 total). Adding averaged publicly-available data for Q1 gives a full-year approximation of USD$40.572bn [...]
Unity Files for IPO; US Court Partially Upholds Epic Injunction Against Apple
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Unity files for IPO; US court partially upholds Epic injunction against Apple; and Nintendo rumoured to launch new Switch console in 2021. Unity files for IPO Video game [...]
Stillfront Group raises SEK1.2bn; Nintendo Mooting Mobile Withdrawal
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Stillfront Group raises SEK1.2bn (£102m); Nintendo mooting mobile withdrawal; and eUnited to merge with Backstageplay. Stillfront Group raises SEK1.2bn (£102m) Developer-publisher Stillfront Group AB has announced that it [...]
Nintendo Revenue Hits £9.94bn; Zynga Posts USD$104m Loss Despite Record Revenue
TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the prevalent business stories in gaming. In today’s news: Nintendo revenue hits JP¥1.308tn (£9.94bn); Zynga posts USD$104m (£83.9m) loss despite record revenue; and Endeavor eyes Epic Games stake sale. Nintendo revenue reaches JP¥1.308tn (£9.94bn) Nintendo has released [...]
COVID-19 and the Game Industry: News Round-up [UPDATED 7th April]
[LATEST UPDATE: 3rd April] As the COVID-19 novel coronavirus continues its spread and has hit pandemic level, there has been a growing impact on the game industry. The game sector's problems, of course, are trivial compared to the millions impacted and [...]
Game Financial Reports Round-Up: Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Zynga, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, Take-Two and More
[LAST UPDATE: 28th February, 2020] The time of year has come when myriad gaming companies and other tech outfits are releasing their new financial reports, with the conventional Q4 financial quarter drawing to a close on the final day of 2019. The [...]
Arcades Are Dead; Long Live... Airport Gaming Lounges?
The classic video game arcade has almost become a trope for nostalgia. They appear across contemporary fiction as shorthand for a fondly remembered version of the 1970s and 1980s. The arcade's 'passing' is often lamented in tandem with warm, fuzzy memories [...]
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