Game sales and profit jump despite lack of new releases. The Japanese firm's digital entertainment segment, which houses its gaming operations, generated 23.45 billion yen in sales (#163;136m/$229m), up 102.6 per cent compared to the same period of the prior fiscal year, while operating income increased 242 per cent to 4.5 billion yen (#163;26m/$44m).
New Dota 2 Workshop tools believed to carry signs of next-gen game engine. A group of modders and game enthusiasts suspect that Valve has quietly soft-launched Source 2, the long-awaited game engine that could be the building blocks for future games such as Left4Dead 3 and Half-Life 3.
Retain your character in Ultimate Evil Edition even if you're moving from PlayStation to Xbox. Diablo 3 saves can be moved from PlayStation to Xbox and vice versa when consumers buy the upcoming Ultimate Evil Edition
Plus Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age Inquisition, The Sims 4, FIFA 15. EA has announced details of its Gamescom 2014 line-up, which will include the reveal of a new BioWare title.
Go hands-on with Far Cry 4, The Crew and Assassin's Creed Rogue. Ubisoft has detailed its Gamescom line-up ahead of next week's consumer event in Cologne.
SOE brings new content to PC, PS3 and PS4 players of its superhero MMO. Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has released the 'Halls of Power Part 1' DLC expansion for its free-to-play superhero MMO, DC Universe Online.
YouTube-style copyright protection blocks in-game music in videos. Gaming broadcasting service Twitch has made a number of major changes to its Video on Demand systems, the company announced on Wednesday.
Yacht Club Games opens up on finances. Developer Yacht Club Games has opened up its accounting books, showing the surprising success of Shovel Knight and the unsalaried months it took to get there.
Plus, more than 200 new scanned player faces as part of lucrative new Premier League deal. FIFA 15 will include all twenty Premier League stadiums for the first time in the series' history.
Chris Roberts' cult nineties sci-fi title can be downloaded at no cost. Wing Commander 3, the cult sci-fi title first released in 1994, is the latest game offered completely for free as part of EA's Origin promotion.
Plus subscribers can download it for free. Infographic and statistic themed indie platformer Metrico is now available on the PlayStation Store in North America and Europe.
Publisher cites "strong" Metal Gear Solid sales. Tokyo-based publisher Konami has informed investors of a sharp increase in profits along with a steady uptake in sales.
Publisher Take-Two expresses faith in Gearbox-developed FPS series. Borderlands 2 has sold around 10 million units since the game's release in 2012, according to a key executive at Take-Two.
Customers complained after thinking they were buying the 1998 original. UK publisher Codemasters is offering refunds to gamers who purchased a game entitled 'Colin McRae Rally' on Steam.
Free weekend will last from August 7 until August 10. Legacy of Kain spin-off Nosgoth will be available to play for free on Steam from August 7 for three days.
Hirshberg hopes analysts can "reset expectations"; Publisher flaunts Destiny and CoD pre-orders. The western games publishing sector is facing a "secular downturn" in pre-order sales, according to a key Activision executive.
Xbox One made up just four per cent of Konami's quarterly revenue. Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes sold three times as many units on PlayStation 4 than on Xbox One, Konami has revealed.
Returning players expected as 'Warlords of Draenor' expansion release nears. World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have dropped to around 6.8 million, Blizzard has announced.
