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 APRIL 19, 2013 • Changing consumer preferences in favor of mobile and online game platforms has led Capcom Co., Ltd. to announce a serious restructuring of its product plans. Capcom reviewed its business expansion strategy and restructured its game development organization to account for what it characterized as its own delayed response to the shift ...Continue Reading eShop Gains Traction APRIL 17, 2013 • During a press conference in San Francisco, Nintendo of America executive vice president Scott Moffitt said the 3DS title Fire Emblem: Awakening had sold 240,000 units in the U.S. since its Feb. 4 release. Moffitt went on to say that 80,000 of those sales had been digital through Nintendo's eShop. More ...Continue Reading EA Retires Facebook Games APRIL 15, 2013 • Maxis utilized a post on the Electronic Arts blog to announce that three of its Facebook titles would be shut down on June 14: Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society. The reason for terminating the games was a continued fall off in the number of players and player activity. Electronic ...Continue Reading Disney Axes LucasArts Devs APRIL 3, 2013 • Acquired as part of the $4.05 billion buyout of LucasFilm by the Walt Disney Co. last October, LucasArts' new owners have decided the game division will no longer internally develop new titles moving forward. The status of new content under development, such as Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault, ...Continue Reading Total War Arena Coming MARCH 29, 2013 • The online battle arena segment is getting rather crowded. In addition to Defense of the Ancients (DotA) and League of Legends (LoL), a slew of challengers are in preparation. Among the competitive online F2P titles in development are DotA 2 (Valve), Blizzard All-Stars, Command & Conquer (EA), and now Total War ...Continue Reading OpenKit Fills OpenFeint Hole MARCH 25, 2013 • Ready for exposure at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is a new open source backend-as-a-service (BAAS) platform for mobile phones and tablets called OpenKit. When GREE International, Inc. decided to shut down the OpenFeint social mobile platform last November it only gave developers one month's notice to convert ...Continue Reading Warner Opens SF Mobile HQ MARCH 25, 2013 • Later this year Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) will open a new studio dedicated to developing and publishing free-to-play mobile, social and browser-based games from the Bay Area. WB Games San Francisco will be headed by senior vice president of digital games Greg Ballard. Ballard is a veteran of the games ...Continue Reading Tencent Posts 4Q Profit MARCH 21, 2013 • China's Tencent Holdings Ltd. rode growth in smartphone ownership and its League of Legends online arena game to a strong fourth quarter ending Dec. 31. Total revenues were 12.15 billion yuan ($1.9 billion), an increase of 5.1% over the third quarter of 2012, and an increase of 53.4% over the fourth ...Continue Reading Riccitiello Out at EA MARCH 19, 2013 • Six years after taking the reins at Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello resigned as chief executive and board member. In a blog post to EA employees, Riccitiello described his departure in financial terms. "My decision to leave EA is really all about my accountability for the shortcomings in our financial results this ...Continue Reading Vita Sales Upswing In Japan MARCH 15, 2013 • Moving the price on all PlayStation Vita SKUs in Japan to ¥19,980 ($213) has been well received by consumers there. In each of the two weeks since the Feb. 28 markdown the Vita has surged to the top of the retail charts, according to research firm Media Create. For the week ending ...Continue Reading |
