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Why a $6 billion price tag was still worth the money.

A market that’s too saturated? 

GTA 5 publisher Take-Two Interactive has said that its remasters typically do well because they aren't simple ports.

In case you forgot, over a decade ago Universal Pictures was in the process of creating a film adaptation of the video game BioShock. While the project got somewhat far, and even had Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski attached to make it, the movie ended up falling apart due to [...]

Photo Illustration: Araya Diaz/Getty Images With live revenue decimated, The Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City — now owned by game mogul Strauss Zelnick — forged new paths to varying degrees of success. In July, The Second City was facing an existential crisis. Its namesake improv theaters in Toronto, Los Angeles and Chicago had shuttered amid the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively eliminating all revenue overnight. Meanwhile, former members were taking to social media to c...

Players can expect more than just a simple port.

27.5 million games across physical and digital were sold in France in 2020, alongside 2.3 million consoles

Free-to-play Pricing Model Offers Potential Growth Free-to-play is the pricing model that is preferred by most of the mobile game developers because of its unlimited potential and can be downloaded without any charge. This allows players to sample a game before deciding whether they want to commit time or money, and tend to accrue higher revenues. Games such as Pokemon GO are following a free to play game model, and according to Bank of America, in the United States in 2016, 27 million users we...

Google apparently went all out to secure third-party publishing deals in a bid to populate the Stadia library of games.

OPINION: Dundee acquisitions a sign deal activity will reach new highs this year by Rod Mathers © Supplied by Ruffian Games Deal activity will reach historic highs in 2021 according to a local expert. Opinion by Rod Mathers, corporate finance partner at MHA Henderson Loggie. The rate at which businesses are bought and sold is a good barometer of the nation’s confidence in the wider economy. Last year was a year of mixed confidence for obvious reasons and arguably is a story of four qua...