Video Game Market Research Archives - Page 15 of 19

Trion World’s Rift Goes Free-to-Play

May 15, 2013

May 15, 2013 • Starting June 12, Trion Worlds’ Rift: Planes of Telara MMO will become free-to-play. The transition will occur with the upcoming 2.3: Empyreal Assault update. Existing subscribers will get Patron status that confers additional bonuses that grant.....

Electronic Arts Locks In Star Wars Franchise

May 7, 2013February 16, 2023

May 7, 2013 • A month after LucasFilm, now under new management at the Walt Disney Co., announced that LucasArts would no longer be in the business of internal game development, Electronic Arts secured the exclusive l.....

Apple iOS Mobile Entertainment Continues to Dominate

April 30, 2013

APRIL 30, 2013 • A recently released report published by DFC Intelligence forecasts that games and applications developed for the Apple iOS will continue to dominate the growing mobile entertainment market over the next few years. The report, The Global Market for Games and Entertainment Applic.....

Capcom Shifts Strategy

April 19, 2013December 15, 2022

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 to digital media delivery being seen throughout the video game industry. Furthermore, the company admitted a decli.....

Electronic Arts Facebook Games Are Retired

April 15, 2013February 16, 2023

APRIL 15, 2013 • Maxis utilized a post on the EA blog to announce that three Electronic Arts 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 Arts will realign its presence on Facebook around games from its PopCap unit. In addition, players of the Maxis games that are closing will receive a special offe.....

Total War Arena Coming

March 29, 2013

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 the works. Among the competitive online F2P titles in development are DotA 2 (Valve), Bl.....

SimCity Limps Out of Gate

March 11, 2013

MARCH 11, 2013 • Many consumers who purchased SimCity after its release last Tuesday discovered that they were unable to access the city building game, or found their experience hobbled if they did manage to get the title running on their computers. Amazon.com went so far as to suspend digi.....

Battling for Entertainment Dollars: 7 Major Companies in the Video Game Market

March 5, 2013

MARCH 5, 2013 • As we discussed recently in Can Sony & Nintendo Recover? one of the great ironies of 2012 was that Sony and Nintendo were not able to take advantage of strong consumer excitement over digital devices. Hardware is clearly not a commodity and this should be good news for game hardware manufacturers that specialize in providing unique, proprietary systems. Unfortunately, w.....