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Activision Are Spending A Literal Fortune On Their New Melbourne Office Share Filed to:activision melbourne Image: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Something that’s well known among Australian devs, but maybe not so much among the broader gaming public, is that Activision has always had a small crew of folk down under. But that’s not enough for th...

Big Ant Studios CEO Ross Symons. Aussie game designer Big Ant Studios has been acquired by French gaming publisher Nacon, in a whopping $55 million (€35 million) deal that founder Ross Symons says could put the Aussie industry on the map. Founded in 2001, Melbourne-based Big Ant is one of Australia’s oldest independent game developers, best known for its sports games, including those featuring tennis, cricket, the AFL and rugby league. After the acquisition, Symons will stay on as chief executive. Speaking to SmartCompany, he says he’s not going to take much time out to rest and reflec...

Sales up 2.3% in Q3 2020/21 In Q3 2020/2021 (from October 1 to December 31, 2020), Bigben posted 87.3 M€ sales up 2.3%, driven by the momentum of Nacon Gaming, while the recovery of Audio/Telco was slowed down by the 2nd lockdown. NACON GAMING  Games : Due to Q3 publishing releases limited to two new games targetting profitable but narrow niches ( Monster Truck®, Handball 21), sales were down by 19.7%. The share of digital sales continues to grow and represents 74.4% of quarterly sales. The contribution of the back catalogue (2), a source of high margins, is up very sharply to 6.9 M€ (...

The Melbourne-based Big Ant Studios will be acquired by publisher Nacon, the pair have today proclaimed. “The integration of Big Ant into the Nacon group will enable the studio to increase its investment capacity to develop a broader and more ambitious games catalog,” Nacon said in a press release. The release also confirmed that founder Ross Symons will remain as the head of the studio and will operate it “with a high degree of autonomy so that they can concentrate on the creative side of their productions, while benefiting from the sales, editorial and marketing support of the Nacon t...