John Pleasants Out at Disney

NOV. 12, 2013 • In less than a week after Disney Interactive showed its second recorded quarterly profit of $16 million for the quarter ending September 28, co-president John Pleasants left the division in a management shakeup that installs Jimmy Pitaro as president. Pleasants and Pitaro have managed Disney Interactive as co-presidents since 2010. Pleasants was acquired along with Playdom in.....

Free Unity to ID@Xbox

NOV. 5, 2013 • Indie developers who have signed up for Microsoft Corp.’s ID@Xbox self-publishing program for the Xbox One will now get Unity Technologies deployment tools for the platform as an add-on to their existing Unity license. A special Xbox One version of t.....

WII U Sales Uptick

OCT. 30, 2013 • Since Nintendo Co. Ltd. reduced the price of the Wii U by $50 on September 20 in North America and Europe Wii U sales have increased. For the quarter ending on September 30, units sold totaled 300,000, up 88% from the 160,000 moved during the preceding quarter. At 460,000 units sold through the first two quarters of Nintendo’s fiscal year, the gamemaker is well short of its forecast of selling 9 million Wii Us by March 31. On total sales of.....

Google+ Gains Users

OCT. 29, 2013 • Since May the number of monthly active users (MAU) on the Google+ social network has grown 58% from 190 million to 300 million. The increase was announced at a Google event held in San Francisco. That puts Google+ squarely behind Facebook’s 1......

End of content

End of content