Video Game Business

APRIL 2, 2010 • Sega Studios San Francisco that most recently worked on games based on the Iron Man motion pictures, was closed by Sega of America. The closure did not affect the release of  Iron [...]

MARCH 30, 2010 • DFC has been aggressive in covering the free-to-play (F2P), games as a service business model. While that model is experiencing substantial success, the model itself can only [...]

MARCH 26, 2010 • As far back as 1994 DFC Intelligence has been monitoring the trends in digital distribution. By 2001, we had begun tracking the game market in South Korea. We chose South Korea [...]

MARCH 25, 2010 • Zynga rolled out $10 and $25 pre-paid game cards to such national retailers such as 7-Eleven, Inc., Best Buy, GameStop – bringing availability of its game cards to 12,800 stores [...]

MARCH 21, 2010 • In a brochure detailing new features for its Steam service, Valve outlined support for micro-transaction in 2010. “Want to offer your customers a scabbard for their sword?  [...]